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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear colleagues, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Please find attached an Outreach Notice that was just posted for a<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> GS-0408-09/11 Ecologist</span>
position is with the USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station,
Climate, Fire
and Carbon Cycle Sciences Research Work Unit (NRS-06) located at
Forestry Sciences Laboratory in Houghton, MI. The position provides
technical assistance to professional research personnel by accomplishing
support of scientific investigations of above and
belowground ecosystem processes. The link is:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://fsoutreach.gdcii.com/?id=98932E1A472542C4A60DBD18D92BAD35" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext">https://fsoutreach.gdcii.com?<wbr>id=<wbr>98932E1A472542C4A60DBD18D92BAD<wbr>35</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">The incumbent will
provide technical support for Unit research with an emphasis in the area
of soil ecology and ecosystem processes. Support will include
assistance with laboratory, mesocosm, rhizotron and
field studies. Our unit’s primary emphasis is on understanding,
mitigating and adapting to global change. Studies involve a diverse
array of topics, including research on interactions of belowground
processes with invasive soil organisms, changing atmospheric
chemistry, and changing climate. The incumbent would support research
on the processes that control the storage and turnover of carbon in
forest soils as well as the feedbacks between soil microbial (bacterial
and fungal) community structure/function and
environmental change agents. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Applicants should
have strong laboratory and field experience and skills, and an interest
in working both indoors and outdoors. She or he should be capable, with
minimal training, of performing:, soil biological,
physical and chemical sampling; lab analyses; data management; and
statistical analysis. Field sampling would include a broad array of
activities such as basic ecosystem aboveground measurements, soil
respiration studies, soil sampling, minirhizotron image
capture, macroinvertebrate sampling, soil moisture sampling using TDR,
soil water sampling using lysimeters, and datalogger management.
Activities would include sample collection and prep as well as a variety
of assays. Laboratory activities include but are
not limited to DNA-based identification methods such as DNA and RNA
extraction, PCR, gel electrophoresis, sequencing; sterile culture
techniques; identification of soil macroinvertebrates; soil particle
size and root system image analysis; PLFA analysis; C/N
analysis preparation; and gas chromatography.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">A major
responsibility of the incumbent would be the day-to-day maintenance of
our new Rhizotron and Mesocosm facilities. The Rhizotron is a walk-in
tunnel with 24 vertical windows into the soil in which observation,
monitoring, and manipulative experiments take place. The Mesocosm is a
facility with large instrumented containers used in controlled
experiments designed to understand ecosystem response to changes such as
warming or invasive soil organisms. The incumbent
would be responsible for managing the facility environmental
conditions, data collection and management, sample processing, and
coordination of space use in the context of these studies.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">The ability to
manage and reduce large quantities of environmental and biological data
is essential to the successful fulfillment of duties. In addition, the
incumbent should have a good foundation in statistical
analysis methods. The successful candidate will have strong
organizational and communication (both written and oral) skills, have
the ability to take directions, work as part of a team, be able to work
with minimal supervision, and have excellent interpersonal
skills. Motivated candidates will have opportunities to present and
publish research results under the supervision of a senior scientist.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">For more information, or to express interest in the position, use the optional form in the Outreach Notice, or contact:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Erik Lilleskov, Research Ecologist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">410 MacInnes Drive</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Houghton, MI 49931</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">ph.: <a href="tel:%28906%29%20482-6303" value="+19064826303" target="_blank">906-482-6303 X22</a>; email:
<a href="mailto:elilleskov@fs.fed.us" target="_blank">elilleskov@fs.fed.us</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt">Thank you, Erik Lilleskov</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif">Erik A. Lilleskov, PhD<br>
Research Ecologist & Director’s Representative<span style="color:black"></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(40,116,46)">Northern Research Station; Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Science Work Unit</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">p: <a href="tel:%28906%29%20482-6303" value="+19064826303" target="_blank">906-482-6303 ext 22</a> </span></b></p>
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</span></b><a href="mailto:elilleskov@fs.fed.us" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:blue;border-width:1pt;border-style:none;border-color:windowtext;padding:0in">elilleskov@fs.fed.us</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)"></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"arial",sans-serif;color:rgb(85,85,85)">410 MacInnes Dr.</span></p>
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