The Climate Change Science Institute within the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks a postdoctoral researcher with experience in computational ecology and/or ecohydrology to support a newly funded project aimed at exploring how plant traits and the hydrologic environment co-vary to form ecosystem function.
Your primary responsibilities will be to develop, calibrate, and evaluate coupled models of trait-based ecosystem function and hydrology, and then use those models to advance the field’s understanding of how plant traits and the abiotic environment interact and co-evolve. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of investigators including experts modeling and observing plant traits, plant hydraulics, and soil hydrology, who are developing and evaluating numerical models coupling a fine-scale hydrologic model to a model of plant demography and competition. You will develop hypothesis-driven numerical experiments, bringing data and ecosystem process understanding together with models to evaluate these hypotheses, and lead papers describing those findings. You will also have the opportunity to shape how ecosystem function is modeled in next generation Earth System Models, which play a critical role in science relevant to both society and policy. This position is a full-time assignment for a maximum of 24 months, contingent on successful performance and continued funding. For more information, interested candidates should see the formal job listing at: http://bit.ly/2me7JyT <https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2me7JyT&data=02%7C01%7Cbradley.christoffersen%40utrgv.edu%7C74a28033f79d4ebad7a908d52c35e03b%7C990436a687df491c91249afa91f88827%7C0%7C1%7C636463532262487778&sdata=KsJGElRDc9wDszqcP6qA648btBRXgrX9fGDhLV%2BoMgE%3D&reserved=0> and may contact mentors Ethan Coon ( [email protected] ) and Anthony Walker ( [email protected] ) for more information.
