<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues,</span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The newly founded </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHoWLcm_Xw&feature=youtu.be" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC)</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is recruiting multiple research scientists, postdoctoral scholars and PhD students on ecosystem modeling, remote sensing, and advanced data analytics. </span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt">Research topics for these positions include: </span><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;text-align:justify;text-indent:36pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><span id="m_-1621528330514314255gmail-docs-internal-guid-bdf1dfdd-7fff-c3e0-dd10-fdfb3bc66d68"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1) Advancing ecosystem modeling (using the ecosys model) for coupled water, carbon and nutrient cycles in managed or natural ecosystems. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The candidates will work on improving existing ecosystem models or develop new modules with new theories and observational evidence. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2) Advancing ecosystem sensing (esp. Hyperspectral sensing) by integrating ground, airborne, and satellite data.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The candidates will work on generating new insights and data products from geospatial big data with radiative transfer modeling, computer vision, and deep learning. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3) Advancing model-data fusion by integrating advanced ecosystem modeling with high-quality sensing data to improve the quantification of changes in various ecosystem services. </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The candidates will work on building effective, scalable and efficient model-data fusion solutions by leveraging advanced computation techniques and artificial intelligence.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail_default" style="">4) </span>Measuring and processing gas (CO</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="vertical-align:sub">2</span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, N</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="vertical-align:sub">2</span></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">O, and water vapor) and energy exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere using the eddy covariance technique</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. The candidate will work on field data collection, conducting eddy covariance data analysis to understand the mechanistic basis of mass and energy exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere, and modeling those processes in the ecosystem models.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;text-indent:36pt;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p>Please check more details on those openings in the attached flyer or at <a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/ASC_UIUC_recruiting_2023.pdf">http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/ASC_UIUC_recruiting_2023.pdf</a>.</span><span><p style="line-height:1.2;text-indent:36pt;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p></span><span><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Thanks a lot for spreading the words <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">to those who are interested in these openings.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Bin.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">-----------</span><br></p></span><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:27.2px">

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><b>Bin Peng, Ph.D.</b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Department of
Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (NRES)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Institute for
Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (ISEE)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>