[Grad-postdoc-assn] Fwd: [CCSM-participants] postdocs on vegetation mortality

Paula Fisher paulad at ucar.edu
Tue May 20 15:27:09 MDT 2014




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Subject: 	[CCSM-participants] postdocs on vegetation mortality
Date: 	Tue, 20 May 2014 21:15:38 +0000
From: 	McDowell, Nathan G <mcdowell at lanl.gov>
To: 	ccsm-participants at cgd.ucar.edu <ccsm-participants at cgd.ucar.edu>



*_Postdoctoral fellowships_ to study drought-induced forest mortality at 
Los Alamos National Laboratory. *

*Summary*:  Postdoctoral positions are available within the Earth and 
Environmental Sciences Division to work on 1) forest mortality modeling, 
2) remote sensing of vegetation dynamics, and 3) empirical physiology of 
vegetation mortality at local to global scales.  Successful applicants 
in the modeling realm will work with the most recent version of the 
Community Land Model (Ecosystem Demography) (CLM(ED)) in collaboration 
with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other DOE national 
laboratories.  The successful applicants in the remote sensing realm 
will assist with mortality monitoring, interpretation, and application 
to testing of models at multiple scales (regional to global). The 
successful applicants in the physiological realm will work on an 
ecosystem-scale drought and heat manipulation study in a pine-juniper 
woodland located in New Mexico, with the secondary goal of integrating 
closely with the modeler and remote sensing scientists.  All postdocs 
will be expected to focus on mortality hypotheses testing and publishing 
their results.  Opportunities to engage with DOE's Next Generation 
Ecosystem Experiment-Tropics exist. We encourage applicants who can work 
across disciplines and draw upon large and unique data sets to study 
linkages between large-scale forest processes and global climatic change.

*Required skills for modeling *include experience using numerical 
simulation models to predict vegetation dynamics. *Required skills for 
remote sensing *include experience using remote sensing techniques to 
quantify and interpret vegetation changes. *Required skills for 
empirical physiology *include experience conducting field work such as 
with infra-red gas analyzers, sapflow instrumentation, and data loggers. 
*Required skills for all positions *include demonstrated ability to 
publish peer-reviewed papers, effective written and oral communication 
skills, willingness to work in a team environment, and a Ph.D. pending 
or received within the last five years.

*Desired skills *include knowledge of physiological, ecosystem, 
population, or community ecology, fortran programming and experience on 
linux environment and with CLM or ED for modeling candidates, and MODIS 
or LANDSAT experience for remote sensing candidates

**

*For more information or to apply *please send a resume and a short 
statement of your future research goals to Nate McDowell 
(mcdowell at lanl.gov <mailto:mcdowell at lanl.gov>, 
https://sites.google.com/site/lanlveg/home).

Candidates may be considered for a Director's Fellowship and outstanding

candidates may be considered for the prestigious J. Robert Oppenheimer, 
Richard

P. Feynman or Frederick Reines Fellowships. For general information 
about LANL's postdoctoral program please refer to the 
http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/index.php.



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