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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">EPA Federal Post-Doc Position – Air Quality Modeling of Wildland Fires<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">EPA’s Office of Research and Development is seeking applications from qualified post-doctoral candidates to perform research on modeling the impacts of wildland fires on regional air quality. The selected
applicant will be assigned to the Atmospheric Model Applications and Analysis Branch of the Computational Exposure Division in Research Triangle Park, NC. Applications are being accepted until January 29, 2016.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">A brief synopsis of the research opportunity is as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">While the characterization of anthropogenic emissions of particulate matter and its precursor species in the U.S. has improved significantly, smoke emissions from wildland fires are still poorly quantified
and have nearly doubled over the past 20 years. Furthermore, climate and forest management experts predict an increase in the severity and occurrence of wildfires, which could pose an increased risk from air pollution on human health and sensitive ecosystems.
EPA is thus seeking to conduct research to improve the predictive capability of its air quality modeling tools and data to more accurately simulate the impact of wildland fire smoke emissions on regional air quality. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The selected post-doctoral candidate will have the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team that is being assembled to investigate wildland fire smoke emissions, and in particular, to improve the
functionality of the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) modeling system to simulate smoke from wildland fires. Depending on the expertise and interest of the post-doctoral candidate, research areas could include emissions characterization of smoke, vertical
allocation (plume rise) of smoke, fine-scale applications of coupled fire/meteorological/air quality models, and evaluation and application of regional air quality model output to assess impacts of smoke on human health.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For more info on the position:
<a href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=919">http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=919</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">For instructions on how to apply:
<a href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Lab.cfm?Lab=NERL">http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Lab.cfm?Lab=NERL</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Points of contact are <a href="mailto:pouliot.george@epa.gov">
pouliot.george@epa.gov</a> and <a href="mailto:pierce.tom@epa.gov">pierce.tom@epa.gov</a>. Please note that preference will be given to U.S. citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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