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Pacific Northwest Research Station
USDA Forest Service
 
OUTREACH NOTICE
Managing Disturbance Regimes Program
Behavioral Chemistry and Ecology of Insects and Disease Team (BCEID)
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Research Plant Pathologist
GS 434 12/13

The Behavioral Chemistry and Ecology of Insects and Disease Team (BCEID) of the Pacific Northwest Research Station anticipates advertising for a permanent, full-time Research Plant Pathologist GS-434-12/13 position, centered at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon.

The specific research objectives assigned to this position will be: 1) determine what factors of forest pathogens contribute to the severity of their pathogenicity in host trees; 2) develop tools and techniques that can be used to reduce the level of pathogenicity expressed by forest pathogens;  3) determine what factors in host trees contribute to their resistance of forest pathogens; and, 4) develop tools or techniques for increasing the resistance of host trees to forest pathogens.  The overall goal is to provide resource managers with new tools they can use to maintain resilient, sustainable, and productive forest ecosystems.  The studies will be directed at native and invasive pathogens currently impacting, or with the potential to significantly impact (such as sudden oak death) forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, including Alaska.

It is expected that the contributions from this personal assignment will modify existing theories with a series of significant additions to the scientific and forest management literature.  This scientist is expected to develop an aggressive research program, including a combination of independent and cooperative studies with other scientists in the Team, Program, Station, other government agencies, or universities.