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Multiple Positions Available

  1. University of Alaska Anchorage seeks Postdoctoral Fellow
    Landscape/Ecosystem Ecology
    Anchorage, Alaska

  2. Joint Position Available
    President and C.E.O., Prince William Sound Science Center
    Executive Director, PWS Oil Spill Recovery Institute
    Cordova, Alaska

  3. Marine Biological Laboratory seeks Postdoctoral Scientist
    Arctic Landscape
    Woods Hole, Massachusetts

  1. University of Alaska Anchorage seeks Postdoctoral Fellow
    Landscape/Ecosystem Ecology
    Anchorage, Alaska

The Environment and Natural Resources Institute at the University of
Alaska Anchorage is seeking a landscape/ecosystem ecologist for a 2-3
year postdoctoral position on a Western Alaska Landscape Conservation
Cooperative (LCC) -funded project focused on climate-ecosystem processes
and their influence on caribou populations in Western Alaska. The
position will be based in Anchorage, Alaska.

The goals of this project are to mechanistically link climate, soil
nitrogen cycling, plant morphological and nutritional phenology, and
caribou population dynamics across five distinct caribou herds occupying
an area of approximately 163,000 km2 in southwestern Alaska and the
Alaska Peninsula. The successful applicant will conduct and collaborate
in a variety of experimental and descriptive ecological studies spanning
a range of spatial scales across this region, from the effects of snow
on soil biogeochemistry at the square-meter scale to the movements and
habitat use of caribou across landscape scales of hundreds of
kilometers. The postdoctoral fellow will join a team of researchers from
the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, and the University of Alaska in this multi-disciplinary
project. The successful applicant will be expected to assist in
supervising graduate and undergraduate students and to assist the
primary investigators with project management.

A PhD or previous postdoctoral research experience in landscape ecology,
plant community ecology, plant-soil nutrition, remote sensing and
geospatial analysis, and/or wildlife habitat ecology is preferred. The
project is expected to begin in the summer of 2011 and extend through
the summer of 2013. To be considered please to apply posting number
0060111 at: http://www.uakjobs.com/.

Screening of applicants will begin in June or July 2011.

For further information, please search for posting number 0060111 at:
http://www.uakjobs.com/.

For questions, please contact:
Don Spalinger
Email: afdes [at] alaska.edu
Phone: 907-786-4703

Jeff Welker
Email: afjmw1 [at] uaa.alaska.edu

  1. Joint Position Available
    President and C.E.O., Prince William Sound Science Center
    Executive Director, PWS Oil Spill Recovery Institute
    Cordova, Alaska

The Prince William Sound (PWS) Science Center (SC) seeks to fill a joint
position. The successful applicant would take on the roles of President
and C.E.O. of the PWSSC as well as Executive Director of the PWS Oil
Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI). The position is based in Cordova,
Alaska.

This joint position provides vision and leadership in planning,
coordinating, and expanding research and education programs of the
PWSSC, and also supervises, promotes, and administers OSRI research and
development programs focused in the arctic and sub-arctic marine
environments. The non-profit PWSSC is a 22-year-old organization
conducting cutting edge science and education in the North Gulf of
Alaska region. PWSSC administers the OSRI established by Congress to
support research, education, and demonstration projects to address cold
water oil spills.

A PhD and substantial business experience, excellent leadership, and
verbal and written communication skills are required. Successful
candidates may be invited to join the University of Alaska Anchorage
faculty.

Application deadline: 1 July 2011.
Anticipated start date: 15 October 2011.

For further information, including application instructions, please view
the full job announcement at:
http://www.pwssc.org/whatsnew/employment.shtml.

  1. Marine Biological Laboratory seeks Postdoctoral Scientist
    Arctic Landscape
    Woods Hole, Massachusetts

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) Ecosystems Center seeks a
postdoctoral scientist for an arctic landscape position. The position
will be based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

The successful applicant will work on a new NSF-funded project entitled
"Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape." The
long-term goal of this research is to build a regional model of the
carbon, water, and energy balance for the North Slope of Alaska in
relation to increased fire frequency and climate change. Over the next
three years the project will have two core aims:

- Improve understanding of the recovery of arctic tundra following
fire. Field campaigns will assess the carbon, water, and energy
budgets for fire scars of differing age and in differing arctic
landscapes using portable eddy covariance towers and intensive field
sampling.
- Develop post-fire successional models of nutrients, and carbon and
energy exchange in arctic tundra; integrate the field data into
these models using data assimilation techniques; and use the models
in conjunction with remote sensing and GIS data to scale predictions
across the North Slope under different fire regimes and changing
climate.

The postdoctoral associate will be expected to play a significant role
in defining the specific spatial modeling approaches to be used, remote
sensing and GIS analysis, data assimilation, and model application.
Long-term collaborations with other arctic scientists, with
international and pan-arctic synthesis programs, and with the LTER
network will provide additional opportunities. The project will include
extensive field research at Toolik Field Station, Alaska, and other
arctic sites, in 2012-2014.

Candidates must have a PhD in ecology or a related field. The ideal
candidate for this position will have a strong background in ecosystem
and spatial modeling, data assimilation, remote sensing, and GIS.

Anticipated start date: 3 January 2012.

For further information or to apply, please go to:
https://mbl.simplehire.com/postings/2059.

For questions, please contact:
Ed Rastetter
Email: erastetter [at] mbl.edu

Gus Shaver
Email: gshaver [at] mbl.edu

Adrian Rocha
Email: arocha [at] mbl.edu