Postdoc Position at US EPA Gulf Ecology Division Linking Ecosystem Services to Human Health in Support of Sustainable Community Decision-Making
Work to be performed will address critical priorities to integrate human health and environmental endpoints through quantification of final ecosystem goods and services. Approaches and/or models will be developed to examine the sustainability of ecosystem services production and resulting public health effects under alternative decisions using a systems approach rather than a focus on individual issues. Linkages between environmental and human health endpoints will refine decision analysis tools that foster effective decisions that are focused on sustainable outcomes that incorporate environmental, economic and social (public health) issues. Research may include: i) identification of ecosystem goods and services contributing to human health endpoints of high relevance to stakeholders in different community types; ii) refinement of conceptual models linking ecosystem condition and ecosystem goods and services to human health endpoints; iii) inventory of existing methods, identification of knowledge gaps, and development of novel methods using statistical or modeling approaches to quantify human health outcomes under changing ecosystem condition; and iv) implementation of quantitative methods to map and/or predict human health endpoints under alternative scenarios of changing ecosystem condition, including climate change and other stressors. Location: US EPA, Gulf Ecology Division, Gulf Breeze, FL Project Number: GED-05-04-2015-08 Applications are due by June 8, 2015 For position information, go to http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Position.cfm?pos_id=658 To apply, go to http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Lab.cfm?Lab=NHEERL
