<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:13pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Postdoctoral fellowship at UIUC: Soil moisture observation and modeling over the U.S. agroecosystems.</span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">One Postdoctoral Researcher Position in the </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__nres.illinois.edu_&d=DwMF-g&c=Y6HT0gyZH_Z4ZSRJdNYJeQ&r=NQtf-UcrvKrLMiRyX6eLLKRZumTHUTjZi0Bro5tjjXg&m=XGxO6xRqdtANwu1T5HuHsZriNaoF4MnwXCSKEDFOTdk&s=dT-fj07tcY7OMUcMbxlmY7U-BHjQxrriL5ALQVvI7mQ&e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES)</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.ncsa.illinois.edu_&d=DwMF-g&c=Y6HT0gyZH_Z4ZSRJdNYJeQ&r=NQtf-UcrvKrLMiRyX6eLLKRZumTHUTjZi0Bro5tjjXg&m=XGxO6xRqdtANwu1T5HuHsZriNaoF4MnwXCSKEDFOTdk&s=jmOBfoKVI2w0TzVRDZDmfuI1C5yYVcXMewIsle7nx8I&e=" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"> at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), full-time, 100% (2-year duration, with possibility of extension, contingent upon performance and funding).</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><b><u><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Summary</span></u></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">: The successful candidate will explore efficient and cost-effective ways to get high-resolution and high-accuracy soil moisture data for the U.S. agroecosystems. The candidate will use a combination of <i>in-situ</i> measurement, satellite remote sensing and process-based modelling to achieve this goal. The proposed work will directly contribute to deeper understanding of field-scale hydrology, crop water stress, and agricultural production predictability of the U.S. Corn Belt, which currently produces ~30% of the world’s corn and soybeans, respectively.</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Specific responsibilities include: designing and implementing a soil moisture observation network in typical agricultural fields of the U.S. Corn Belt; conducting high-resolution land surface modeling with constraints from <i>in-situ</i> and remote sensing data or developing new field-scale hydrological models; developing/building new retrieval or downscaling algorithms for soil moisture estimation using multi-spectral, hyperspectral, and/or microwave remote sensing data; preparing peer-reviewed publications and education materials; managing projects and reporting; and communicating research at professional meetings.</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;bo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