Forwarded message from David Shaw:
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.
FOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES ON THE WORKFORCE REDUCTION PLACEMENT SYSTEM LIST WILL RECEIVE
PRIORITY CONSIDERATION AND CTAP/ICTAP CANDIDATES WILL RECEIVE THE APPROPRIATE
CONSIDERATION
Interested applicants, or those desiring further information should contact Rick Kelsey,
(541-750-7368, rkelsey(a)fs.fed.us) or complete the attached form and return by March 31,
2009.
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David Shaw
Extension Forest Health Specialist and Director, Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative
Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management (Assistant Professor)
College of Forestry, Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331
Phone: 541.737.2845
Fax: 541.737.4316
dave.shaw(a)oregonstate.edu
Swiss Needle Cast Cooperative: <http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/>
http://www.cof.orst.edu/coops/sncc/