Dear Ecolog, Sue Phillips emailed you yesterday asking to post a job announcement for an ecology postdoc to do climate change related work for the US Geological Survey. Can you please change the announcement? It should read as follows:
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Canyonlands Research Station, Moab, UT is seeking an Ecologist to study how climate change will affect plant communities and dust production in the Upper Colorado River Basin. Major duties include using complex and multivariate statistics to analyze vegetation and climate data compiled from National Parks throughout the Upper Colorado Plateau to document how species and functional groups have responded to past climatic regimes. These results will be used to model likely future changes in cover for the dominant plant communities in this region; integrating vegetation and climate predictions, available wind soil erosion models, and data on dust production from different soils to predict and map likely future dust source/sink patterns and amounts; summarizing research results for distribution/communication to a general audience; and reporting research results as high quality, peer-review publications. Applicants must demonstrate solid experience in complex statistics, GIS modeling and analysis, ability to modify existing mathematical models, and well-developed writing skills. This is a 13 month full-time appointment, GS-11, starting at $55,494 year, plus full benefits. Applicants MUST be U.S. citizens. Interested parties please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], or apply online at www.usajobs.gov, announcement WR-2008-0610. Applications due 8/18/08. Note: the revised announcement contains an additional sentence at the end of the first paragraph. Also, please let me know if I should follow a different procedure in order to change this announcement. Thank you for your time, Christy Parry USGS, BRD, SBSC, Canyonlands RS 2290 S. West Resource Blvd. Moab, UT 84532 435 719-2359 435 719-2350 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
