Post-Doctoral Research Associate Position Available Plant Community Response to Global Change: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, for 1+ year, in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee (UT); for participation in the Old-field Community Climate and Atmospheric Manipulation (OCCAM; http://warming.ornl.gov/OCCAM.html) project (est. 2002), a DOE-sponsored collaboration with Richard Norby, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). We are investigating potential interactive effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration, increased air temperature, and changes in soil moisture in a manipulative field experiment on above- and belowground community and ecosystem processes; open-top chambers over in-situ soil contain planted C3 and C4 grasses, herbaceous dicots, and legumes typical of an old-field plant community. The Post-doc will be responsible for leading assessments of demographic and/or physiological response of tree seedlings experimentally introduced into the plots as seeds to simulate woody plant invasion or succession. Preferred qualifications include demonstrated skill or interest in rates and patterns of plant community succession or plant invasion under global change scenarios, experience in plant demography, ecophysiology, or modeling, and/or empirical field research. The Post-doc will also be encouraged to develop independent research projects related to the overall project mission, mentor graduate and undergraduate students, and collaborate with scientists at UT and the Environmental Sciences Division at ORNL.
Ideally, the Post-doc would start 1 June 2007. Please send a CV and a statement of research interests and plans relevant to this project, and arrange for submission of three letters of recommendation, by 25 April 2007, to: Jake Weltzin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 569 Dabney Hall, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996-1610; Phone: 703-292-7161; Fax: 703-292-9064.
