<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><font size="2"><b>Post-Doctoral Position </b><b style="text-align: center;">Microbial Source Tracking & Direct Pathogen Testing</b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: left; margin: 0in;"><b style="text-align: center;"><font size="2">Dauphin Island Sea Lab & University of South Alabama</font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="2">The Dauphin Island Sea Lab seeks a post-doctoral researcher to support an EPA-funded project on microbial source tracking for coastal ecosystem and human health under the direction of Drs. Ruth H. Carmichael and Brandi Kiel Reese. The Postdoctoral Investigator will join a highly productive, multidisciplinary research team that leverages existing knowledge and established partnerships to conduct community-driven, spatially explicit water-quality analyses focused on impacts and benefits to disadvantaged and vulnerable coastal communities. <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="2">Work will assess potential health risks from water use (e.g., fishing, swimming) by defining wastewater-derived microbial sources to the waterways using traditional (fecal coliform, E. coli, MSC, direct pathogen testing), biogeochemical (nutrient, stable isotope), and advanced (genomics) microbial source-tracking approaches. Community engagement and integration is inherent in the project and outreach will be a major component of the work.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="2">The Postdoctoral Investigator will help lead this newly funded research study in coastal Alabama. Responsibilities include assisting with data collection, analyses and interpretation; interacting with project partners and community members; project reporting; helping to supervise graduate and undergraduate students or interns; publishing papers from new and existing datasets; working closely with team members on related ongoing projects; developing new lines of inquiry that build on the core research studies; and disseminating data through scientific meetings and public presentations.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="2">Applicants should have expertise in sample preparation and analysis for traditional microbial source tracking using established methods (e.g., EPA, FDA) for bacterial and viral indicators (fecal indicators) and/or for direct pathogen detection (e.g., norovirus, adenovirus, others). Familiarity with or interest in learning nutrient and stable isotope determination and knowledge of appropriate statistical methods and software programs to support these analyses is required. Knowledge of genomic methods, bioinformatics, and isotope mixing models or other modeling approaches is a plus but not essential to the position. Prior experience with student mentoring and project management preferred. <o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><o:p><font size="2"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in;"><font size="2">Applicants must hold an earned Ph.D., be fluent in written and spoken English, and be legally able to work in the USA <u>at the time of application</u>, without dependence on future institutional sponsorship. To apply, submit a letter of application and research interest, CV, 1-2 recently published works, and the names and contact information for at least three references by email to MSTpostdoc@disl.edu. <span class="regulartype1">Inquiries may be sent to <a href="mailto:hmacintyre@disl.org" style="color: rgb(150, 96, 125);">rcarmichael@disl.org</a>. </span>Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled, with a starting date in spring 2025. </font><span class="regulartype1"><font size="2">Salary highly competitive. AA/EEO/M/F/D</font><font face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 6.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></font></span></p></body></html>