<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:adobe-garamond-pro,serif;color:black">Postdoctoral
Researcher to study climate change and disturbances</span></b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:adobe-garamond-pro,serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">We have an excellent opportunity for a postdoctoral
researcher to estimate the ability of arctic and boreal ecosystems to keep pace
with climate change, given rising temperatures, thawing permafrost and multiple
interacting disturbances in Siberian Russia (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.melissalucash.com/projects/siberia" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.melissalucash.com/projects/siberia</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">). Our project is
funded by the National Science Foundation (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844435" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844435</span></a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">).</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The position will be located at Portland State
University in Portland, OR, but the position will require periodic travel to the
US Forest Service Institute for Applied Ecosystems in Wisconsin.  The
selected candidate will also travel with the PIs to meet with collaborators at
IIASA in Austria. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The successful candidate will join our well-renowned
research group led by Drs. Melissa Lucash, Eric Gustafson, Forest Hoffman,
Brian Sturtevant, Joshua Fu, Dmitry Schepaschenko, and Anatoly Shvidenko. This international
and interdisciplinary team is comprised of landscape ecologists, forest
ecologists, and spatial modelers at Portland State University, the U.S. Forest
Service, Oak Ridge National Lab, University of Tennessee -Knoxville and the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Capitalizing on a rich and underutilized empirical
dataset of Siberia, the successful candidate will project future species
composition and C dynamics under climate change using a landscape-scale forest
simulation model (LANDIS-II). The candidate will also collaborate with a
postdoc at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Lab who will use CLM-FATES
to estimate changes in plant functional groups, C dynamics and vegetation-climate
feedbacks. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Required qualifications: </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       </span></span><span style="color:black;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14pt">PhD in Biogeochemistry, Forestry, Geography or associated fields</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">excellent
programming skills in R and ArcMap</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">excellent
writing skills</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">       
</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">experience
in data mining of ecological, environmental or climatic databases. </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Modeling experience is not essential for this
position. We expect to help the candidate become familiar with LANDIS-II.</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Compensation includes an annual salary of $50,000 with health benefits provided by Portland State.  The position is
funded for at least two years and will begin as early as April 1, 2020, but the
start date can be negotiated. In order to receive full consideration, please apply
here:</span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 8pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/31666" style="color:blue">https://jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/31666</a></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">Portland State University is an
EO/AA educator and employer</span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><i>Dr. Melissa S. Lucash</i><div><i>Research Assistant Professor<br></i><div><i>Department of Geography</i></div><div><i>Portland State University</i></div><div><i>Portland, OR</i></div><div><i><a href="mailto:lucash@pdx.edu" target="_blank">lucash [a] pdx.edu</a></i><br></div><div><i>503-725-2170</i></div><div><font color="#0000ee"><i><u><a href="https://melissalucash.com" target="_blank">https://melissalucash.com</a></u></i></font></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>