POSTDOC: ECOLOGICAL RESPONSES TO PAST AND FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
CENTER FOR CLIMATIC RESEARCH
NELSON INSTITUTE, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Bryson Interdisciplinary Climate People and Environment Program (CPEP)
invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher oriented towards modeling
the responses of plant species and communities to climate change. We are
particularly interested in a) developing tools and techniques for modeling
ecological responses climates with no modern analogue and b) applying these
techniques to model ecological responses to both future and past climate
changes. The candidate should have a strong background, including evidence
of creativity in research, in biogeography, community ecology, or population
ecology. Strong quantitative skills are desirable, particularly in the
areas of species distribution modeling and GIS.
The CPEP postdoctoral researcher will be housed at the Center for Climatic
Research at UW-Madison. CCR is an interdisciplinary research center with a
40-year tradition of advancing understanding of the climate system through
interdisciplinary investigations of past, present, and future climates, and
using this knowledge for societally relevant purposes. Thus, a key benefit
of the CPEP postdoc is the opportunity to interact and collaborate with a
diverse team of climatologists and earth system scientists, thereby enabling
the postdoc to develop a level of expertise in climatology that allows work
at the interface between ecology and climatology.
More information about the Center for Climatic Research and the Bryson
Interdisciplinary Climate People and Environment Program may be found at
http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/ and http://ccr.aos.wisc.edu/cpep_web/
This is a two-year appointment with the possibility of a third year. Start
date is negotiable and may be as early as 2/01/09. The stipend will be
$42,000 annually and provides for health and other insurance benefits.
Please see http://info.gradsch.wisc.edu/admin/hr/info/benefitschart.pdf for
additional information.
Applicants should submit a statement of how they see this opportunity with
respect to their careers, a curriculum vitae, and three letters of
reference. Electronic submissions preferred. Applications must be received
by Monday, December 29 at 5pm (Central US Time Zone).
Applications should be addressed to Prof. Jack Williams, and submitted to:
Julie Niesen, Dept. Administrator phone: 608/262-2839; fax: 608/263-4190
Center for Climatic Research email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1225 W. Dayton Street
Madison, WI 53706-1695
Background information about CPEP. Starting with the premise that in order
to work at the interfaces of disciplines, it is necessary for a scholar to
be competent at a high level in at least the two disciplines which are
involved, the Interdisciplinary Fellows Program of the Bryson
Interdisciplinary Climate, People, and Environment Program was conceived.
Combining the facts that most University educational programs are focused on
disciplines and that few major societal problems lie within the expertise of
a single discipline, this program was conceived as a method of opening
opportunities for truly interdisciplinary work to be advanced in the sector
involving climate, people and the environment. The concept that creativity
in this area is more likely from a broadly based interdisciplinary
individual than from a multi-disciplinary committee is central to this program.
