EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Post-doctoral Research Program is seeking applicants to conduct research to develop quantitative relationships that link changes in coastal ecosystems to rates of water-based illnesses in coastal communities. The research may address how changes in climate, watershed land use/land cover hydrology, or estuarine water quality affect rates of illness due to consumption of contaminated food or exposure to pathogen or toxin-contaminated water; or how ecological, environmental and social factors interact to affect estuarine-related disease rate. The research may investigate how illness rate or exposure risk changes spatially within or between estuaries (and associated watersheds) in the Pacific northwest, or regionally along US coastlines. Focal disease organisms for this research may include parasitic, microbial or viral pathogens or toxin-producing micro-organisms (i.e., harmful algal bloom species). The position will be located at NHEERL’s Western Ecology Division, Pacific Coastal Ecology laboratory in Newport, OR. Applications are due by June 8, 2015.
For additional scientific information about this project, contact Dr. Cheryl Brown ([email protected]). Application details and materials may be found at: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Lab.cfm?Lab=NHEERL
