[For more opportunities, please see the ESA Ecophys section website
http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/ecophys/postdoc.htm ]
Postdoctoral Position in Land Surface Interactions
The Center on Global Change at Duke University
(http://www.nicholas.duke.edu/cgc/) seeks a biological or earth system
scientist in biogeosciences, climate modeling, ecology, hydrology, or
remote sensing to study the interactions of climate change and
terrestrial ecosystems. The two-year project, funded by the National
Institute for Climate Change Research and the National Center for
Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, attempts to reduce the uncertainties
associated with changing climate and land cover type on climate
forcings, including albedo, latent and sensible heat, and surface
roughness. The project asks three questions: 1) How will future climatic
variability and climate change influence terrestrial ecosystem structure
and functioning, particularly through differences in energy balance? 2)
In what locations will changing land-cover types (e.g., transitions from
pastures to forests) lead to net climate cooling or warming? and 3) How
can field and remotely sensed data be used to test land-surface
parameterizations in climate models and their representations of the
energy balance? The successful applicant will interact with five
land-surface modeling groups and with ecologists and micrometeorologists
who use eddy flux, remote sensing, and other measurement approaches. The
project will allow us to understand differences in climate models and to
build a framework for a formal inter-model comparison of full radiative
forcing for projected climate and land-cover change. For background on
one aspect of the project, see Jackson, Randerson, Canadell et al. 2008
Protecting climate with forests. Environmental Research Letters 3,
044006. (http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson/erl08.html)
Send a CV, statement of interests, and names of 3 references to:
[email protected] or Rob Jackson, Director - Center on Global Change,
Nicholas School, 325 North Building, 470 Research Drive, Duke Univ.,
Durham, NC 27708-0658 or by email to Klugh Jordan
([email protected]). Duke is an equal opportunity employer; minority
applicants are strongly encouraged to apply. Applications will be
reviewed as they are received; please apply by September 20, 2009 for
full consideration. Lab web page: http://www.biology.duke.edu/jackson
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Charles W. (Will) Cook w 919-660-5144
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook [email protected]
Box 90338, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708
