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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Position:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Research Ecologist (Ecohydrologist, GS-0408-12)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> Fort Collins, CO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Salary Range:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> $76,341.00 to $99,243.00 annually plus benefits<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Announcement opens:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> July 25, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Announcement closes:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black"> August 12, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">The USDA Agricultural Research Service Rangeland Resources Research Unit, headquartered in Cheyenne, WY, is seeking a RESEARCH ECOLOGIST (Ecohydrologist, GS-0408-12), with
a duty station of Fort Collins, CO,</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> to serve on an interdisciplinary research team<span style="color:black">. Ph.D. is required. Salary range is $76,341.00 to $99,243.00 annually plus benefits.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Research Unit mission is to develop science-based management strategies for the provision of ecosystem goods and services from semiarid rangeland ecosystems. These strategies will
be used to enhance decision-making by land managers using monitoring-informed adaptive management to improve resiliency and reduce risk for rangelands in a variable and changing climate.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The incumbent’s specific objectives will be to understand soil to plant to ecosystem level water dynamics in the context of energy/carbon/water balances, ecosystem productivity, nutrient
cycling, plant community dynamics, and associated linkages to livestock production related to 1) management practices (e.g., livestock grazing, prescribed fire), 2) weather/climatic variability (including increased frequency and intensity of extreme events
such as droughts and deluges, and changes in precipitation seasonality), and 3) topoedaphic variability. The incumbent will lead efforts at the Central Plains Experimental Range (a Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research network site (<a href="www.ars.usda.gov/ltar"><span style="color:blue">www.ars.usda.gov/ltar</span></a>))
regarding the acquisition and analysis of data from a network of soil moisture sensors, Eddy Covariance flux towers, and instrumented microwatersheds. The incumbent will be expected to 1) communicate technical information on ecohydrological processes related
to livestock production and the provisioning of other ecosystem services within semiarid rangelands to improve predictions of how management and climatic variability interact to influence soil to plant to ecosystem level water dynamics at multiple temporal
and spatial scales, 2) develop collaborations and lead projects that are integrated across the Long-Term Agro-ecosystem Research network which address ARS Grand Challenges, and 3) develop collaborations with other large-scale networks. Expectations of research
are the improvement of predictions of how management and climatic variability interact to influence soil to plant to ecosystem level soil water dynamics at multiple temporal and spatial scales, ranging from plant-level physiology through ecosystem-level water
and energy exchange, to landscape-level patterns of water movement, storage and use that affect livestock production.<b>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Interested? Go to
<a href="https://www.usa.jobs.gov/">www.usa.jobs.gov</a> and search <b><span style="color:black">ARS-D16W-0428</span></b>; the position
<b>opens on Monday, July 25, 2016</b>, and <b>applications MUST be received no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date (August 12, 2016)</b> of the Vacancy Announcement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Julie Kray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Agricultural Science Research Technician<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">USDA-ARS Rangeland Resources Research Unit<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Crops Research Laboratory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">1701 Centre Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Fort Collins, CO 80526<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">970-492-7128</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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