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De : IALE - North America General Discussion List [mailto:IALENA-L@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] De la
part de Melissa Lucash
Objet : Upcoming postdoc position in Ecosystem Ecology of Siberia, based in WI and OR.
*Have you always wanted to learn more about Siberia? *
Come study disturbance ecology and vegetation shifts due to climate change with our
amazing team of researchers at Portland State, US Forest Service, Oak Ridge National Lab,
U of Tennessee-Knoxville and IIASA in Austria.
*Postdoctoral Researcher to study climate change and disturbances in
Siberia*
*This outreach notice is an early alert* to inform potential applicants that the
Department of Geography at Portland State University will soon be advertising for a *2+
year post-doctoral researcher funded by the National Science Foundation. *
The successful candidate will be a member of an international interdisciplinary team of
landscape ecologists, forest ecologists, and spatial modelers at Portland State
University, the U.S. Forest Service, Oak Ridge National Lab, and the International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria. The candidate will estimate
the ability of arctic and boreal ecosystems to keep pace with climate change and to
quantify temporal and spatial variation in biome shifts and C stocks across a large
latitudinal gradient in Siberian Russia (
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1844435). Capitalizing on a rich and
underutilized empirical dataset of Siberia, we will project future species composition and
C dynamics under climate change using a landscape-scale forest simulation model
(LANDIS-II) and compare our results to similar output from a global scale DGVM
(CLM-FATES). The results will be used to improve how DGVMs account for landscape-scale
processes such as dispersal, disturbance and species-level interactions, which will
ultimately impact the land cover inputs used by Global Circulation Models to project
future global climate. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the
LANDIS-II modeling portion of the project.
Major duties and tasks of the position:
· Develop and validate initial conditions for the study area
· Improve capabilities to model non-tree species (e.g., shrubs,
sphagnum, grass).
· Verify and validate permafrost behavior and hydrological impacts
in the model.
· Calibrate disturbances for each study area.
· Assist in developing and testing a new LANDIS-II output extension
to estimate land surface albedo.
· Conduct simulation experiments and analyze spatial and tabular
outputs using GIS, R and other analytical tools to test hypotheses.
· Collaborate with project personnel to publish and disseminate
results.
The position will be located at the US Forest Service Institute for Applied Ecosystems in
Rhinelander, WI for approximately the first 14 months of the appointment, and then at
Portland State University in Portland, OR for an additional 12 months. Compensation
includes an annual salary of $54,000 with health benefits provided by Portland State.
*The position will be officially advertised in mid-October and will begin on Jan 15,
2020*, although it could begin as late as March 1, 2020.
*Contact Information*
To express interest in this position please send an email, including a current CV and 1-pg
letter of interest describing how your experience prepares you for the duties of the
position, to Dr. Melissa Lucash (Principal Investigator) at lucash(a)pdx.edu.
*About the Locations*
*Rhinelander, WI*
The Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies is located in Rhinelander, WI (home of the
mythical Hodag; pop. 7,798) in the heart of Wisconsin’s Northwoods and lake country. The
city is surrounded by national, state, and county parks and forests that provide multiple
recreational opportunities year-round such as boating, fishing, camping, mountain-biking,
and hiking activities in the summer months to snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, and
ice-fishing in the winter months ( www.travelwisconsin.com/northeast
<http://www.travelwisconsin.com/northesast>). Rhinelander is surrounded by
232 lakes within 15 minutes of downtown, and is known as the “Ice Fishing Capital of the
World.” Additional information about Rhinelander and neighboring cities within the
Northwoods can be found at:
www.rhinelanderchamber.com and www.ExploreRhinelander.com
<http://www.explorerhinelander.com/>. The Institute for Applied Ecosystem Studies
webpage (www.nrs.fs.fed.us/units/iaes/) has details about our research, including the
LANDIS model.
*Portland, OR*
Portland State University is located in the Portland metropolitan area
https://www.pdx.edu/. Portland is in the heart of the Pacific Northwest and it provides
exceptional recreational opportunities and healthy work/life balance
(https://www.travelportland.com/). Details about Dr. Lucash’s research lab can be found
here: https://www.melissalucash.com/
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*Dr. Melissa S. Lucash*
*Research Assistant Professor*
*Department of Geography*
*Portland State University*
*Portland, OR*
*lucash [a] pdx.edu <lucash(a)pdx.edu>*
*503-725-2170*
*https://melissalucash.com <https://melissalucash.com>*