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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Please
forward this to any interested and qualified applicants.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" 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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<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.
<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 more info on
the position:
<a
href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=919"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=919">http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=919</a></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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Points of contact are <a
href="mailto:pouliot.george@epa.gov">
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pouliot.george@epa.gov">pouliot.george@epa.gov</a></a> and <a
href="mailto:pierce.tom@epa.gov"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pierce.tom@epa.gov">pierce.tom@epa.gov</a></a>. Please
note that preference will be given to U.S. citizens.</span>
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