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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white;">October 2, 2023 | Please share widely</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white;"><b>Postdoctoral Fellow in Spatial Modeling of Nature Experience and Health </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund" id="OWAa7351cae-f032-139c-a2c7-7438c2c43923" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Gund
Institute for Environment at UVM</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> and
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://vermontcomplexsystems.org/education/phd/" id="OWA787e5434-945c-b9d1-cef9-ef57a835a218" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">UVM
Complex Systems Center</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> seek an exceptional scientist for a new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spatial Modeling of Nature Exposure and Health. This postdoc will develop rigorous and practical
spatial models relating natural areas and human behavior to health and well-being outcomes. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The postdoc will join the
<a href="https://vermontcomplexsystems.org/lemurs/" id="OWAaf3dd72d-85d2-1345-c39e-6367a8a0ad14" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Lived Experiences Measured Using Rings Study (LEMURS)</a>. LEMURS is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study aimed at understanding and incentivizing healthy behaviors. The postdoctoral fellow will work with daily nature exposure data from a cohort of approximately
500 participants enrolled during fall 2024 and will have the opportunity to help guide interventions that will be deployed during the fall 2025. We expect the postdoc to publish findings in international peer-reviewed journals. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The Fellow will be based at the Gund Institute and will join a growing cohort of<a href="https://www.uvm.edu/node/246849" id="OWA71c1fc6d-5c39-4778-795f-a3ac244af014" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/node/246849" id="OWAcb577773-a432-6679-e23c-7f9fc8e5f0b4" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Gund</a><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/node/246849" id="OWAf444fe33-b7ab-48a3-2fc8-7bbbb34124fb" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">
</a><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/node/246849" id="OWA2df88677-f8e8-ce68-c3ce-e6f188d68707" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Postdocs</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/node/246849" id="OWAb07a2ae8-57a2-3312-c167-3693ae27cfd0" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">.</a> The
Fellow will also become a member of the Complex Systems Center, representing an interdisciplinary bridge between these two centers of excellence at UVM. The primary advisors will be<a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund/profiles/taylor-ricketts" id="OWA99935d94-9132-de35-8bc4-07cbd8c621d7" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund/profiles/laura-bloomfield" id="OWA9022aa0e-be3a-cfd6-6c37-1d10199e6213" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Laura
Bloomfield</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">
<a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund/profiles/taylor-ricketts" id="OWAe4a023a4-0592-a576-7717-16abea21aaf9" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
and </a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund/profiles/taylor-ricketts" id="OWA0f4a3fe0-e039-0b1c-1a62-6b14c03378e6" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Taylor
Ricketts</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">The
<a href="https://www.uvm.edu/gund" id="OWA0f591c44-c1a9-b68c-09c4-1ff83a32ed1f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
Gund Institute for Environment</a> at the <a href="https://www.uvm.edu/" id="OWAd1a26fb7-b9a5-27c2-fa14-6cc83a266a8f" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
University of Vermont</a> is a research center dedicated to understanding and tackling the world’s most critical environmental challenges. Driven by the belief that research should inspire action, the Institute takes a cross-sector approach to solving environmental
issues with stakeholders from government, business, and broader society.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; background-color: white;">The UVM Complex Systems Center is housed in the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences. It is the home to educational programs that provide strong computational
and theoretical training in methods for describing and understanding complex systems and predicting, controlling, managing, and creating such systems.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">Visit our
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website</a> and view the attached flyer to learn more about the position and how to apply.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black;">We will begin vetting candidates on October 24, 2023.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: white;"><b>QUESTIONS? CONTACT:</b></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;"><b>Bailey Rowland,
</b>The Gund Institute for Environment</span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: black; background-color: white;">Tel: 802.656.7967 I Email:
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bailey.rowland@uvm.edu</a></span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"> </span></p>
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