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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">Applications are invited for two postdoctoral scholar positions as part of a multi-campus
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">A 2+ year position will be located
in the </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/moranplantlab/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;" id="OWA151f440d-06c8-7e66-6cae-9d0ed9ab0045" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Moran
Lab</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> at UC Merced, and is focused on projecting climate impacts on tree reproduction to better understand
forest dynamics and aid in seed banking efforts. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">This project makes use of the</span><a href="https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/clarklab/r-packages/disperse/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;" id="OWA2b56066a-85ac-0605-5220-3c1fa6145f80" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">Mast
Inference and Forecasting (Mastif) model</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> and the associated</span><a href="https://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/clarklab/projects/mastif-network/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;" id="OWAb1a7f475-c88f-012b-4fd7-186e4ecaabe1" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">global
network of forest monitoring plots</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0">.
</span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0"> Applicant should be experienced with R; fieldwork experience
is desirable but not strictly required. Find details and application instructions
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2+ year position will be located at the </span><a href="https://www.climatehubs.usda.gov/hubs/california" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWA29598295-e053-4af1-0984-6d584239ad29" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">California
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</span><a href="https://www.ucdavis.edu/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWA670dbda6-c9f4-27ba-0eda-d982ef02c596" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">UC
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</span><a href="https://reforestationtools.org/docs/cast/presentations/LAMRC_open_house_poster_May2023.pdf" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWA5142f6f0-f0b0-f2a2-58f7-a9bdd91a7c72" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">data</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="ContentPasted0"> from
hundreds of thousands of trees planted in common gardens across western North America to
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</span><a href="https://stewartecology.org/diversified-seed-source-portfolios-and-uncertainty-in-reforestion-outcomes/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWAbc33fd38-4960-ee82-0aa3-47d9bebf5e63" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">diversified</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0"> and
</span><a href="https://reforestationtools.org/climate-adapted-seed-tool/" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWA00173867-c090-cb0b-fb2d-18fd8d147d7d" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">climate-adapted</span></a><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0"> portfolios
of native seed sources </span><span style="font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ContentPasted0">for reforestation. The simple intervention
of planting more climate-adapted genetic varieties can yield immense benefits to forest recovery, carbon sequestration, timber production, and fire resistance. Find details and application instructions
</span><a href="https://reforestationtools.org/positions/Postdoc%20in%20Assisted%20Gene%20Flow%20and%20Reforestion%20Decision%20Support.pdf" style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="OWAf39bf9aa-11ec-f56f-4ba9-ab78348add27" class="OWAAutoLink ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here</span></a><font face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;" class="ContentPasted2">: <a href="https://reforestationtools.org/pd_ad" id="LPlnk176086">https://reforestationtools.org/pd_ad</a></span></font></b><br>
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