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<p><font size="5"><b>Assistant Project Scientist - Climate and
Vegetation Dynamics - UC Berkeley</b></font><br>
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<div>Applicants can now apply here: <a
href="https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03508"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03508</a>.<br>
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<p> The first review date is 8/23/2022.</p>
<p>The second review date is 9/6/2022.</p>
<p> The Energy and Resources Group (ERG) within the Rausser College
of Natural Resources (RCNR) at the University of California,
Berkeley (UCB) seeks applications for an Assistant Project
Scientist to further understanding of how climate change and
disturbance processes affect vegetation and ecosystem dynamics.<br>
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The appointee will work with the Kueppers Lab, which works across
tropical, temperate and alpine ecosystems using dynamic regional
models and fieldwork to inform stewardship of ecosystems under
climate pressure.<br>
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As climate change begins to affect a wide range of ecosystems
there are key challenges ahead. These include anticipating and
understanding potential ecological consequences, developing
management options to limit negative outcomes, and quantifying the
potential for ecosystems to draw down atmospheric carbon in
addition to maintaining other ecoclimatic benefits.<br>
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To address these challenges, the Kueppers lab integrates data from
climate change experiments and diverse observations into dynamic
models of vegetation and ecosystem change. This requires
simultaneous consideration of changes in temperature, water
balance, CO2 and disturbance regimes, as well as the plant
functional diversity within ecosystems that can buffer ecosystem
scale response.<br>
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The appointee will play a central role in testing, applying and
developing a cutting-edge dynamic, demographic, vegetation model
of Western U.S. ecosystems and fire regimes. The modeling
framework is the Functionally Assembled Terrestrial Ecosystem
Simulator (FATES), which is embedded within the CTSM land surface
model, and includes an adapted version of the SPITFIRE model of
fire behavior.<br>
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The appointee will work with collaborators at multiple
Universities and National Laboratories to utilize high-resolution
regional atmospheric forcing and evaluate model output with
synthesized in situ and remotely sensed observations.<br>
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On a day to day basis, the employee will conduct and communicate
important original research through some combination of each of
the following: synthesizing and analyzing data; running and
interpreting model simulations; taking the lead in writing
presentations, proposals and progress reports; mentoring and
co-mentoring students; giving presentations to a range of
audiences; organizing project team meetings; and talking with
scientists, land managers and policy makers to inform research
objectives. The employee may also supervise research assistants
and develop and submit original research proposals.<br>
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Goals of the current project include simulating ecological effects
of historic management and atmospheric change to understand how
compounding drivers interact to produce current vegetation
structure, and simulating the response of ecosystem carbon and
severe wildfire risk to alternative fuel management and climate
scenarios.<br>
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Future projects will be developed jointly to address gaps in
observations of post-fire vegetation regeneration under climate
change and interactions between forest structure and hydrology
among other topics.<br>
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In addition to pursuing novel and impactful research, the
appointee is expected to lead and contribute to grant proposals,
mentor graduate and undergraduate students, coordinate
multi-institutional collaborations, and cultivate relationships
with policy makers, land managers and others invested in the
future of Western U.S. ecosystems.<br>
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<div>Apply here: <a href="https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03508"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF03508</a>.<br>
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<div>If this position looks compelling but you don't have the
expected experience, I am also considering postdocs in the same
general area. Please apply or reach out to me at the email address
below. - Lara<br>
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Lara M. Kueppers (she/her)
Associate Professor, Energy & Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Faculty Scientist, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley Lab
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:lmkueppers@berkeley.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">lmkueppers@berkeley.edu</a>
510.457.6524
Office hours sign-ups: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://calendly.com/lmkueppers_ucb/open-office-hours" moz-do-not-send="true">https://calendly.com/lmkueppers_ucb/open-office-hours</a></pre>
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