<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" style="box-sizing:content-box;border-collapse:initial;border-spacing:0px;width:663.5px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px;clear:none"><tbody style="box-sizing:content-box"><tr style="box-sizing:content-box;clear:none"><td style="box-sizing:content-box;padding:0px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;clear:none">The UCRWATER Lab (<a href="http://ucrwater.com">ucrwater.com</a>) in the Environmental Sciences Department at the University of California Riverside invites qualified highly motivated candidates to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position in site-specific irrigation management. This is a one-year appointment with possible extension depending on funding and performance. The successful candidate will be involved in a USDA funded project aiming at enhancing agricultural water management in southern California deserts by improving current uniformly applied irrigation by mainstream growers and creating a pathway toward adoption of emerging site-specific variable rate irrigation technologies in the future. The main objective for this position is to develop decision support tools for the pre-adoption assessment and management of site-specific irrigation systems.<p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.3;vertical-align:baseline"></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="gmail-bti-jd-requirements" style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:inherit;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"></div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:15px">I) Qualifications:</span><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Ph.D. (received within the past five years from an accredited college or university) in Irrigation Engineering, Biosystems Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Agronomy or other related disciplines;</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">• Experience in developing decision support tools, (i.e., smartphone apps, computer software packages, web-based tools, graphical user interfaces);</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Strong programming skills with scripting languages such as Python, Matlab, Java;</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Experience with statistical analyses of geospatial and remote sensing data using ARGIS, ENVI or other software packages;</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Experience with machine learning algorithms and statistical modeling techniques such as regression, k-means, neural networks;</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Demonstrated record of high-quality publications;</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">•Experience working in a collaborative research environment.</p><p style="box-sizing:content-box;margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:15px;line-height:1.3;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-se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;color:rgb(61,133,198)">University of California, Riverside</span><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(61,133,198)">Room 2326 Geology</span><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace;font-size:small;color:rgb(61,133,198)">Riverside, California
92521</span><br><span style="font-size:small;font-family:monospace,monospace;color:rgb(61,133,198)">951-827-4774</span><br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4" color="#6fa8dc"><div style="text-align:left"><div><a href="http://www.ucrwater.com/" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank">UCRWATER</a></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148);font-family:monospace,monospace"><b><br></b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>