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Researcher in Water Sustainability and Climate:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black">Water, land use and climate
change in an urbanizing agricultural region</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">A two-year postdoctoral researcher position is available with the </span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black">Water Sustainability and Climate (WSC) </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">research group at the </span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black">University of
Wisconsin-Madison </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">as part of a five-year
project funded by the National</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">Science Foundation. The position will be co-supervised by Drs. Chris
Kucharik and Steve Loheide. This position</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">is focused on using an
agroecosystem model (Agro-IBIS) coupled to a groundwater flow model (MODFLOW)
to</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">investigate the impacts of changing land use, land cover and
climate on hydrology and other related ecosystem</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">services of the Yahara
Watershed in southern Wisconsin. Therefore, this position requires strong
background in</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">ecohydrology, with preference to those with previous experience in
groundwater flow modeling and modeling the</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">connections between
groundwater and land surface processes. The scientific goals of this two-year
postdoctoral</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">position are: (1) complete development and calibration of the
newly developed Agro-IBIS-MODFLOW (AIM)</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">model for the Yahara Watershed, and (2) use this new modeling
approach to examine the impacts of changing</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">climate and land use/cover
on flows of water, N, and P through the watershed using a series of integrated</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">scenarios that portray
several pathways of change out to the year 2070.</span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">Applicants should have strong natural science training with a
prior Ph.D. degree in hydrology, civil and environmental engineering,
environmental fluid mechanics, geology, water resources management, or related field.
Additional background in water quality and quantity, agriculture, and/or land
use change desired. Previous numerical modeling experience with groundwater
modeling tools such as MODFLOW, COMSOL, ParFlow and/or HydroGeoSphere and the
ability to conduct interdisciplinary research is required; experience with MATLAB,
FORTRAN, ArcGIS and spatial analysis is strongly desired. Strong GPA, GRE
scores, and oral and written communication skills are required.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">The postdoc will work closely with an interdisciplinary team
spanning social, ecological, and hydrologic scientists. The project involves
six faculty, two full-time staff members, and numerous graduate and undergraduate
students. The overarching question of our work is: How will ecosystem services
related to freshwater vary and how can they be sustained in regional watersheds
as climate, land use and land cover, land management, the built environment and
human demands change? The geographic setting for this project is the Yahara
Watershed, an urbanizing agricultural watershed in southern Wisconsin, containing
the city of Madison. Here and elsewhere, human needs for freshwater are growing
as changes in climate, landscapes, the built environment and institutions alter
water flows and quality in sometimes unpredictable ways. These changes affect ecosystem
services related to freshwater, such as flows of freshwater for domestic,
agricultural, industrial, recreational, and other uses; regulation of floods;
water quality; and aspects of human health. To strengthen conceptual frameworks
and improve predictive capacity, this interdisciplinary project integrates
biophysical and social-economic aspects of regional water systems. The position
will also benefit from connections with the North</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">Temperate Lakes – Long Term Ecological Research site and network.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">The 2-year </span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black">Postdoctoral Research
position </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">will begin in late spring
or summer 2014. Review of applications will begin March 14, 2014 and continue
until an applicant is selected. To apply, email to Dr. Chris Kucharik (<a href="mailto:kucharik@wisc.edu">kucharik@wisc.edu</a>)
the following in a </span><b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT,sans-serif;color:black">single </span></b><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">PDF document: cover letter, CV with undergraduate/graduate GPA and
GRE scores, and unofficial undergraduate/graduate transcripts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">Dr. Chris Kucharik</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">Water Sustainability and Climate</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:black">University of Wisconsin-Madison</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:TimesNewRomanPSMT,sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/kucharik/kucharik.html">http://www.sage.wisc.edu/people/kucharik/kucharik.html</a></span></p>
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