[ES_JOBS_NET] Postdoctoral position on linking forest productivity with airborne remote sensing

Sandra M. Durán smduranm at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 17:58:45 MDT 2025


Dear colleagues,


We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher for a 2-year position in *linking
functional biodiversity and airborne imaging to predict ecosystem
productivity in temperate forests* at Colorado State University


*Details*: The postdoc will be employed by the Department of Forest and
Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University and will work under the
supervision of Dr. Sandra Duran to improve our understanding of how
remotely-sensed biodiversity affects rates of forest productivity across
climatic gradients.

Start date is flexible.



Typical duties will include:

   - Develop machine learning models to predict plant traits from
   hyperspectral imagery using public open data from NEON sites across a
   climatic gradient in continental USA.
   - Estimate functional diversity indices from hyperspectral imagery from
   NEON sites at a local scale
   - Obtain public data on tree growth over time to estimate net primary
   productivity over time
   - Fit structural equation models to test the effects of remotely sensed
   biodiversity (from hyperspectral and LiDAR) on forest productivity across
   three forest types (evergreen, deciduous, mixed forest) from NEON sites.
   - Apply these models to infer ecological mechanisms driving
   biodiversity-productivity relationships in temperate forest ecosystems


*For more details and To Apply go to: *
https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165751


If the link does not work search the posting number #165751 at CSUjobs. Please
contact Sandra Duran (Sandra.Duran at colostate.edu) if you have questions.


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Sandra M Durán

Assistant Professor

Forest and Rangeland Stewardship

Colorado State University

Lab Website <http://traitsandecosystems.com/>
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