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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">Post-doctoral opportunity in the US Geological Survey in post-wildfire hydrology and water quality:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall/19-42-wildfire-impacts-water-availability-upper-colorado-basin<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">USGS Mendenhall Research Fellowship Program<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">How to apply:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall/when-and-how-apply"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.usgs.gov/centers/mendenhall/when-and-how-apply</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Application link:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/582067300<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background: white;">Closing Date: January 4, 2021</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background: white; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></strong></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Proposed Duty Station: Lakewood, CO<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Wildfire impacts on water availability in the Upper Colorado Basin<o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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Wildfire can change nearly all aspects of the hydrologic cycle, including interception, transpiration, snow accumulation and ablation, infiltration, groundwater recharge, erosion, contaminant entrainment, and stream temperature. In addition to these shifts
in hydrologic states and fluxes, wildfire introduces changes in surface and subsurface parameters required for adequate representation in integrated hydrologic models. Yet, many of these relationships are neither fully understood nor systematically implemented
in hydrologic modeling schemes. The duration of these hydrologic shifts and associated model parameterization problems are poorly characterized. Water-quality degradation may depend on tree species, fire severity, ash loading, soil thickness, soil textural
classification, soil depth to bedrock, presence of historical mining activities, land use, and river corridor effects such as hyporheic exchange. Studies proposed under the Mendenhall postdoc opportunity may have field, laboratory, remote sensing, and/or numerical
modeling components. The research is anticipated to use a framework of smaller-scale research integrated with basin-scale analysis and modeling to improve basin-to-regional scale assessments of fire-driven shifts in water quality and quantity affecting water
availability. A successful proposal will build on ongoing USGS post-wildfire research and will be evaluated for scientific originality and innovation. The geographic focus of research will be in the Upper Colorado/Gunnison basin and similar, adjacent basins.
However, we anticipate that research methodologies will be extensible to other basins in the western U.S.<o:p> </o:p></p>
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