[ES_JOBS_NET] Two Postdoctoral Research positions (up to 3 years), aquatic resources restoration, Franklin and Marshall College, PA

[Dorothy J. Merritts]

Two Postdoctoral Research positions (up to 3 years) in aquatic resources
restoration and Earth and environmental science at Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, PA



Two Postdoctoral Research positions are available, each for up to a
three-year term (pending performance) starting January 1, 2024, in the
Department of Earth and Environment at Franklin and Marshall College, a
liberal arts undergraduate institution in Lancaster PA. We seek two highly
motivated postdoctoral scholars in one or more of these disciplines:
geomorphology, surface water hydrology, freshwater ecosystem
restoration/ecohydrology, carbon and other nutrient cycling, and
geochemistry or biogeochemistry. Each postdoctoral scholar will teach two
undergraduate course credits per year that support and expand our
curricular offerings in these areas and will mentor undergraduate research
assistants. Courses can be one class with a lab or two classes with no lab,
including seminars in the candidates’ areas of research expertise. Teaching
experience is preferred but not required.



The fully-funded research will focus on one of the largest urban
floodplain-wetland restoration projects to date in the mid-Atlantic region
of the eastern US, the Little Conestoga Creek Blue-Green Corridor project,
<https://lccbgc.org/> with one postdoctoral position focusing on water
quality and the other on floodplain/wetland biogeochemistry. The
postdoctoral researchers will establish and maintain multiple types of
monitoring along 2.7 km of the Little Conestoga Creek stream corridor
adjacent to the F&M campus. The research will include fieldwork to install
and maintain instrumentation to monitor water temperature, dissolved
oxygen, turbidity, specific conductance, nitrate-N, and other parameters.



Funding is available immediately for a comprehensive
monitoring program with new instrumentation including three fully equipped
EXO2 water quality sondes, a Sontek Flowtracker 2 with integrated GPS,
greenhouse gas flux monitors, and a stable isotope CRD spectrometer. Our
department is well-equipped with ICP-OES, XRF, XRD, SEM-EDS, two gamma
spectrometers, two liquid scintillation counters, and an elemental
combustion analyzer. The project will involve fieldwork to map the stream
corridor using UAV photogrammetry (including a new thermal UAV with RTK
GPS) and on-the-ground RTK-GPS surveying with Emlid GPS units.



Applicants should apply here
<https://www.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=168504> to
submit a CV, cover letter, and description of research and teaching
interests that include how the applicant approaches inclusive excellence in
teaching and mentoring.

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Reach out to the following F&M faculty if you have questions:



Dorothy Merritts -  dorothy.merritts at fandm.edu

Robert Walter - robert.walter at fandm.edu

Christopher Williams - chris.williams at fandm.edu



Dorothy Merritts and Bob Walter will be available to meet potential
candidates on Friday December 15 during the AGU meeting in San Francisco
and will be at the Gilbert Club meeting at UC Berkeley on Saturday,
December 16.

-- 

"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in
having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)

Dr. Dorothy Merritts (http://www.fandm.edu/dorothy-merritts)
The Harry W. & Mary B. Huffnagle Professor of Geoscience
Department of Earth & Environment
PO Box 3003
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
(717)358-4398 (all voice messages are forwarded to my email)

Search *Merritts DJ OR Merritts Dorothy OR Merritts D*

Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2022)

Past President, 2018-2020, American Geophysical Union
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes (https://epsp.agu.org/)

Co-Founder, Chesapeake Watershed Initiative


Fascinated by buried Holocene wetland landscapes and the potential
for their restoration. Trench adjacent to Little Conestoga Creek,
Lancaster, PA.
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