*Post-doctoral fellowship in **Remote Monitoring of Carbon Accumulation and Ecosystem Modelling in Recovering Industrial Landscapes*
The Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit (www.livingwithlakes.ca) led by Dr. John Gunn (Tier 1 CRC in Stressed Aquatic Systems) at Laurentian University, Sudbury, Canada in partnership with the Ecosystems and Global Change Group led by Dr. Andrew Tanentzap at the University of Cambridge ( www.ecosystemchange.com) are seeking a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) for 2 years stating in Jan 2019. Salary: $45,000 CND (+benefits) in year 1; merit based raise in year 2. *Research topic*: The PDRA will join a large international team investigating the potential for landscape carbon accumulation through reductions in industrial sulfur and metal emissions (L-CARE), jointly funded by a NSERC CRD and Ontario Centres of Excellence's Target GHG program. The goal of the post is to estimate historical terrestrial and aquatic carbon stocks in the global mining centre of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada and develop a spatially-explicit model to forecast future changes in carbon capture under different climate and land use scenarios from present-day inventory data. The Sudbury region - once the world’s largest point source of S, Ni, and Cu pollution - will be used as a model system representing gradients of brownfield mine waste management areas to barren and semi-barren smelter-impacted terrestrial, peatland, and aquatic ecosystems. Over $2B has been invested in pollution emissions reductions by our industrial partners, which continues to facilitate the return of functioning ecosystems and now allows for managed carbon sequestration. Our partners are on the top 100 carbon emitters list in Ontario, and are actively committed to reductions in GHG footprints. The broader L-CARE research project will examine ongoing reclamation strategies and develop and test novel reclamation approaches on polluted industrial landscapes with impaired ecosystem functioning including low net primary production and storage of carbon in soils, sediments, and waters. *Location*: The PDF will be based at the world-class Vale Living with Lakes Centre, just meters from the shore of Lake Ramsey and a 5-minute walk to the main Laurentian campus. Laurentian University is a mid-sized bilingual (English and French) university home to Canada’s newest medical and architecture schools and Canada’s only graduate programs in Science Communications. The primary supervisors are Dr.John Gunn at Laurentian University and Dr. Andrew Tanentzap at Cambridge, but the successful candidate will also work closely with collaborators at the Canadian Forest Services and Ontario Ministry Natural Resources and Forestry at the Saulte Saint Marie laboratories, located 3 hrs west of Sudbury. There will be opportunities for regular visits to Cambridge to work in person with Dr. Tanentzap and we will be flexible about where the candidate will reside as the project evolves. In addition to the above collaborations there are also important opportunities to work with other L-CARE project investigators and collaborators from Laurentian, Trent University, McMaster University, Queens University, Université de Sherbrooke, Université du Québec à Montréal, Cornell University (USA) and the Ontario Ministry of Environment, Conservation and Parks. *Qualifications: *The successful candidate must be a highly motivated scientist with a proven track record of publication in leading peer-reviewed journals. They will have a PhD in ecological modelling, remote sensing, or a related subject and considerable experience with processing and handling satellite and airborne spectral imaging and airborne Lidar data for digital mapping of vegetation and soils. The ideal applicant will also have experience using earth observation data to parameterize process-based ecosystem models for predicting above- and below-ground carbon sequestration. Application process: An application should consist of a CV, cover letter or statement of your experience and interests, and contact information for 3 potential referees and should be sent to John Gunn jg...@laurentian.ca. Applications will be reviewed beginning Nov. 23/18 and continue until the position is filled.
