<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Would you please share the posting below?</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">Thanks, -Steve Frolking (UNH) & Bill Riley (LBNL)</span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;" class="">-------</span><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-size: 12.8px;" class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Research Scientist Opportunity - </span></b><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">carbon cycling in thawing permafrost peatlands</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The University of New Hampshire has a Research Scientist II (or Postdoctoral Researcher) opening for a DOE-funded project. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The successful candidate will be located in Berkeley, California at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), but will work with project members at multiple institutions on this multi-disciplinary project.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The project focuses on the carbon cycle in thawing permafrost peatlands, related plant and microbial processes, and climate feedbacks. <span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;" class="">The position calls for expertise in numerical methods for land-surface modeling; uncertainty quantification; parameter estimation; and microbial biochemistry, abiotic, and plant processes and interactions</span>.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The successful candidate may focus on several relevant processes, questions, and scales, related to coupled hydrological and biogeochemical dynamics, nutrient and carbon interactions, plant and microbe interactions, and climate feedbacks. We are also interested in developing methods to evaluate, against observations, process-level and emergent model responses, and in developing model benchmarking approaches.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Essential Qualifications:<br class=""></span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">• Ph.D. in an appropriate discipline;<br class="">• Graduate Student or Postdoctoral research experience in ecosystem modeling, with specific modeling skills in coupled hydrological, biogeochemical, and atmospheric processes;<br class="">• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including scientific writing and presentation skills;<br class="">• Ability to develop, test, run, and analyze multi-scale coupled hydrological and biogeochemical cycle models;<br class="">• Good knowledge of site- to watershed-scale hydrological and biogeochemical dynamics;<br class="">• Ability to work collaboratively in a modeling group.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">To app</span><span style="font-size: 15px;" class="">ly, go to this web page: <a href="http://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/24384" class="">http://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/24384</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">For more information on the position, please contact William Riley (</span><a href="mailto:wjriley@lbl.gov" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">wjriley@lbl.gov</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access/Affirmative Action employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, or marital status. Application by members of all underrepresented groups is encouraged. Hiring is contingent upon eligibility to work in the U.S.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>