Post Doc - Wildlife Population Modeling The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencys, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Gulf Ecology Division in Gulf Breeze, Florida, is seeking an individual with expertise in avian population modeling to join our research team in predictive ecology. This position will focus on two primary activities: 1) developing and refining spatially explicit population models for terrestrial wildlife, and 2) improving and integrating interspecies toxicity estimation models with wildlife population models. These activities will augment an array of wildlife risk assessment approaches and models, and integrate EPAs interspecies toxicity correlation models with population-level wildlife risk assessment through generation of species sensitivity distributions for non-aquatic species. The population modeling expertise of the incumbent will inform investigations into the critical endpoints and life history strategies that determine population sustainability, moving extrapolation science beyond species intrinsic sensitivity to acute exposures to ecologically meaningful susceptibility. This is a 3 year appointment, and applicants must have completed a Ph.D in Ecology, Wildlife Biology or equivalent. Examples of appropriate experience include population modeling, wildlife biology, geostatistics, and multivariate statistics.
Full details may be found at http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/postdocs/ (Position # GED 08-24-06-157). The next application period opens September 1, 2006 and closes October 31, 2006. The U.S. EPA is an equal opportunity employer.
