The National Marine Fisheries Service, in conjunction with the National Academies Research Associateship Program, is offering three postdoctoral research opportunities to perform a multiregional assessment of the status of estuaries and coastal habitats for fish populations in the United States. This assessment will be conducted in support of the National Fish Habitat Action Plan, a comprehensive plan for determining the main threats on fish and their habitat across the nation. Research will involve (1) integrating NOAA FisheriesÂ’ habitat classification system, land use/land cover data, hydrologic data, and existing water quality assessments to develop indicators of habitat condition; and (2) testing the utility of these indicators with data on the abundance of well-studied estuarine/marine taxa as well as historical and current species compositions.
Positions will be for one year with possibility of extension for an additional year. Applicants should have a broad knowledge of fish-habitat relationships and estuarine and marine ecology. For more information, contacts for the three opportunities are listed below, and application details can be found at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/rap/. The deadline for the first round of review is February 1. Any unfilled positions will be rolled over into the next review deadline (May 1). West Coast Opportunity 26.03.39.B7105 Contact: Correigh Greene Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle WA (206) 860-5611 [email protected] Gulf Coast Opportunity 26.03.05.B7104 Contact: Tom Minello Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Galveston TX (409) 766-3506 [email protected] East Coast Opportunity 26.03.56.B7119 Contact: Thomas Noji Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Highlands NJ (732) 872-3025 [email protected]
