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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-USFS-2020-0191">https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-USFS-2020-0191</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333;background:white">USFS Soil Science Postdoctoral Fellowship<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Organization</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Reference Code</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">USDA-USFS-2020-0191<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">How to Apply</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<em><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Connect with ORISE...on the GO!</span></b></em><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333"> Download the new ORISE GO mobile app in the <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/orise-go/id1491975263"><span style="color:#0D4DB5">Apple
App Store</span></a> or <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.orau.ima.orisego&hl=en_US"><span style="color:#0D4DB5">Google Play Store</span></a> to help you stay engaged, connected, and informed during your ORISE experience and beyond!</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">A complete application package consists of:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">An application</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Transcript(s) – For this opportunity, an unofficial transcript or copy of the student academic records printed by the applicant or by academic advisors from internal institution systems may be submitted.
Selected candidate must provide proof of completion of the degree before the appointment can start. All transcripts must be in English or include an official English translation. Click <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://orise.orau.gov/sepreview/transcripts.html" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0D4DB5">Here</span></a></span></strong> for
detailed information about acceptable transcripts.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">A current resume/CV</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Two educational or professional recommendations</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">If you have questions, send an email to <a href="mailto:USForestService@orise.orau.gov"><span style="color:#0D4DB5">USForestService@orise.orau.gov</span></a>. Please include the reference
code for this opportunity in your email.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Application Deadline</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">11/10/2020 3:00:00 PM Eastern Time Zone<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333">Description</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">*Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">A postdoctoral research opportunity is currently available with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Office of Sustainability and Climate. The opportunity
location is negotiable depending on candidate selection and COVID-19 protocols.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Climate change is already changing precipitation regimes in ways that are increasing both flooding and drought events. Soil moisture is a critical pool linking the hydrologic response
to changing precipitation. However, knowledge and monitoring of the spatial and temporal variation of soil moisture is currently lacking, especially for forested lands. The selected participant will gain applied science skills from multidisciplinary research
and land management programs coordinated by the Office of Sustainability and Climate, which supports national forests and grasslands with the tools, training, and resources needed to build resiliency into public lands in the face of a changing climate. The fellow
will participate in a USDA interagency effort to model soil moisture spatial and temporal variability in two long-term research forested gaged catchments—Coweeta Hydrologic Lab, North Carolina and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire and apply
this to the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) efforts to develop a new dynamic soil survey product. These data will ultimately be used to support modeling efforts to predict soil moisture and report dynamic soil properties at a landscape scale in
near real-time and at multiple spatial scales. This is a cooperative project that brings together soil moisture and hydrologic modeling across two agencies, NRCS and the Forest Service. </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Currently parameters describing forest soils in NRCS soil surveys are static (e.g. hydraulic conductivity, soil carbon, water holding capacity); however, these are known to be dynamic
on various spatial and temporal scales. The fellow will gain experience by building spatially explicit models of soil moisture dynamics at watershed scales in two (or more) Forest Service Experimental Forests, including the Coweeta Hydrologic Lab and Hubbard
Brook. These models will incorporate long-term hydrometeorologic data and both NRCS and locally developed soil surveys to examine sensitivity in predictions of spatial and temporal dynamics in soil moisture. These modeling efforts will inform expanded data
collection through a soil moisture monitoring network and inform efforts to implement soil moisture modeling across all federal forest lands. This research is critical for guiding land management options for forest drought responses and mitigation.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The fellow will also gain project management experience by assisting with evaluation of existing precipitation, soil moisture and streamflow data, as well as soil property data to identify
data gaps which may need to be filled to advance overall project goals. The fellow will gain communication and coordination experience by facilitating the transfer of data and information across agency boundaries (USDA Forest Service (FS) and Natural Resource
Conservation Service (NRCS). </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Under the guidance of a mentor, the participant will gain experience through hands-on learning in the following activities:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Creating a project design with a definition of project area, expected data products, sharing platform and expected results (acceptable techniques) for soil moisture modeling and product development.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Using data to parameterize, validate, and verify a spatially explicit dynamic hydrologic model to predict variation in soil moisture across the watersheds.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Identification of data gaps, critical locations and times for data collection, and strategies for the deployment of additional sensors and stations to collect data at both watershed sites.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Presenting results and recommendations at scientific conferences and to agency principals.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Modeling various scenarios, such as using static vs. dynamic soil properties in model runs, using dynamic soil survey products/digital soil mapping/high resolution soil property maps, and current
vs. future climate regimes to inform design of a dynamic raster-based soil survey.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo2;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Coordinating and developing a collaborative approach to working across different agency boundaries and effectively communicating to partners to enhance understanding and ensure success.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Anticipated Appointment Start Date: October 26, 2020 is preferred but can be flexible</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">This program, administered by ORAU through its contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to manage the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), was established
through an interagency agreement between DOE and USFS. The initial appointment is for one year, but may be renewed upon recommendation of USFS and is contingent on the availability of funds. <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The participant
will receive an annual stipend of $60,000, which includes a health insurance allowance.</span></strong> Proof of health insurance is required for participation in this program. The appointment is full-time. Participants do not become employees of USDA, USFS,
DOE or the program administrator, and there are no employment-related benefits.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">For more information about the USFS Research Participation Program, please visit the <strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://orise.orau.gov/usfs/"><span style="color:#0D4DB5">Program
Website</span></a>.</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">The candidate should have received a doctoral degree in one of the relevant fields. Degree must have been received within five years of the appointment start date.</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333">Preferred skills:</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ideal candidates will be highly organized and efficiently skilled at handling and manipulating large data sets</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Experience with distributed watershed hydrologic models such as DHSVM is highly preferred. Experience with Linux, C++ and/or Python coding</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Experience with GIS platforms </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Experience with soil physical properties, especially soil hydrology and use of SSURGO/STATSGO2 databases</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Knowledge of using raster-based data sets and data manipulation</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Some knowledge of forest ecohydrology</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Some experience with long-term research</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Excellent writing skills</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#333333;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3;background:white;box-sizing: border-box">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ideal candidates will be able to communicate effectively in a team environment and present information to multiple groups with diverse scientific backgrounds</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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