Position Description: At least one postdoctoral research position is available to pursue collaborative projects involving the spread and ecological and economic impacts of aquatic invasive species in the Laurentian Great Lakes and neighboring inland waterways. Supported by funding from a new 5-year NOAA- funded project and other on-going and pending projects, the postdoc housed in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame will report to project leader David Lodge, and will collaborate with risk analyst Roger Cooke (Resources for the Future), economists Richard Jensen (UND) and David Finnoff (U Wyoming), and ecologists including Lodge and Lindsay Chadderton (The Nature Conservancy) to apply new tools in research at the interface of science with management and policy.
Qualifications: We are seeking postdoc(s) with some combination of the following skills and experience: population modeling, food web modeling, structured expert judgment, and spatial and multivariate statistics. Screening of applicants will begin in early May. Salary and benefits will be competitive. Contact: Applicants should consult the project abstract (Research - Ecological Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics), and then email (in one pdf document) a letter describing their prior research experience and current interests, a curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of three references to: Joanna McNulty, Center for Aquatic Conservation, Galvin Life Science Center, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556 (fax: 574-631-7413; email: [email protected] (with a cc to [email protected]).
