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<td>[CCSM-participants] postdocs on vegetation mortality</td>
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<td>Tue, 20 May 2014 21:15:38 +0000</td>
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<td>McDowell, Nathan G <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mcdowell@lanl.gov"><mcdowell@lanl.gov></a></td>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u>Postdoctoral fellowships</u> to study
drought-induced forest mortality at Los Alamos National
Laboratory.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Summary</b>: 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.
<span style="color:black">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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Required skills for modeling </b>include
experience using numerical simulation models to predict
vegetation dynamics.
<b>Required skills for remote sensing </b>include experience
using remote sensing techniques to quantify and interpret
vegetation changes.
<b>Required skills for empirical physiology </b>include
experience conducting field work such as with infra-red gas
analyzers, sapflow instrumentation, and data loggers.
<b>Required skills for all positions </b>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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Desired skills </b>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 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>For more information or to apply </b>please
send a resume and a short statement of your future research
goals to Nate McDowell (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mcdowell@lanl.gov">mcdowell@lanl.gov</a>,
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sites.google.com/site/lanlveg/home">https://sites.google.com/site/lanlveg/home</a>).<o:p></o:p></p>
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style="color:black">Candidates may be considered for a
Director's Fellowship and outstanding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">candidates may be considered for the
prestigious J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span
style="color:black">P. Feynman or Frederick Reines
Fellowships. For general information about LANL’s
postdoctoral program please refer to the
</span><span style="color:#00009A"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/index.php">http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/index.php</a></span><span
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