<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif">Dear Colleagues,</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHoWLcm_Xw&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">Agroecosystem Sustainability Center (ASC)</span></b></a> at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is recruiting multiple <b>PhD students</b>, <b>postdoctoral scholars</b>, and <b>research scientists</b> on <b>ecosystem modeling and sensing</b>. Detailed information can be found <b><a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/ASC_UIUC_recruiting_2024.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">here</a></b>.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b><u>We are recruiting talents from the following research topics</u></b>: (see a recent <a href="https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0012825223001514" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,112,192)">review</span></b></a>).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>1) Advancing ecosystem modeling (using ecosys, CESM, etc) for coupled carbon, water and nutrient cycles in agricultural ecosystems. </b>The candidates will work on improving existing ecosystem models or developing new modules with new theories and observational evidence.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>2) Advancing ecosystem remote sensing, including ground/airborne/satellite hyperspectral sensing, and big-data analytics of satellite algorithms.</b> The candidates will work on generating new insights and data products from geospatial big data with radiative transfer modeling, computer vision, and artificial intelligence (AI).</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>3) Advancing Model-Data Fusion by integrating advanced modeling with data to quantify agricultural ecosystem services, e.g. GHG (N₂O, CH₄), soil health, water resources, using supercomputing and AI. </b>The candidates will work on building or improving effective, scalable and efficient model-data fusion methods.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><font face="times new roman, serif"><b>4) Measuring and processing gas exchange (CO₂, N₂O, and water vapor) between the land surface and the atmosphere using the eddy covariance technique</b>. 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.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:11.5pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:11.5pt">Examples of our recent research highlights can be found </span><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/ASC_UIUC_recruiting_2024.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">here</a>. </b><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;text-indent:0.5in;font-size:11.5pt">Successful candidates will work with a transdisciplinary team composed of leading experts in earth system modeling, plant physiology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, soil science, agronomy, and remote sensing, AI (</span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px">Detailed information can be found </span><b style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://faculty.nres.illinois.edu/~kaiyuguan/ASC_UIUC_recruiting_2024.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">here</a>)</b><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:11.5pt;text-indent:0.5in">.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt"><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font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