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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">In this exciting role, you will combine data synthesis, ecological theory, and numerical model development to explore the dynamics of California and western US ecosystems under a changing climate and fire regime. You will test and apply a vegetation demographic model that resolves fire effects on forest structure and composition, to explore feedbacks and interactions between fire behavior, vegetation dynamics, climate change, and management practices over both historical and future periods.</font></span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Application of the FATES-SPITFIRE model across site-level and regional domains.</font></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Testing of model sensitivity to uncertainty in wildfire processes, plant traits, climate, disturbance history, hydrologic environment, and land management.</font></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Statistical analyses of fire behavior and effects data, forest census and other vegetation data, and hydrological data, and comparison to model results.</font></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Exploration of coupled changes to vegetation structure and fire behavior under alternate climate and management scenarios for both the historical and future periods.</font></span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Prepare and submit publications to peer-reviewed journals. </font></span></p></li>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Knowledge of and interest in wildfire, carbon cycle and ecological science concepts.</font></span></p></li>
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<li dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;" type="disc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><font size="2" face="Arial">Experience working with one of the following class of models: land surface models, terrestrial biosphere models, individual-based/gap models, hydrological models, ecosystem models, vegetation demographic models.</font></span></p></li>
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Lara M. Kueppers
Associate Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
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