JOB DESCRIPTION
JOB TITLE: Post-doctoral Associate, Quantitative Modeling of
Pollinator Populations
DEPARTMENT: Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, UC-Berkeley
REPORTS TO: Professor Claire Kremen
GENERAL SUMMARY
The Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management at the
University of California-Berkeley seeks a quantitative population or
community ecologist for a two to four year post-doctoral position to
work on how native plant hedgerows in intensive agricultural regions
may influence the occupancy dynamics, community assembly and
functional properties of pollinator communities. The post-doctoral
associate will analyze existing datasets (4+ years of data over 20
sites), select new sites to expand the project, supervise the field
team, and assist as needed in collection of field data on pollinator
communities and habitat attributes.
The post-doc will be supervised by PI Prof. Claire Kremen. This
research will elucidate how re-diversification of intensive
monoculture landscapes may influence pollinator conservation and
pollination function/services.
Required Knowledge and Experience:
* Significant experience conducting multi-season occupancy
analysis and/or spatial capture-recapture models, or other relevant experience
* Quantitative statistics background, especially with model
selection and multimodel inference using Maximum Likelihood or
Bayesian estimation
* Experience managing/analyzing large datasets
* Adept at statistical programming in R and/or WinBUGS
* General background in ecology and experience conducting
ecological field work
Desirable Additional Experience
* Experience in entomology or bee/pollinator biology
* Development of null models for community assembly analyses
* Geographic Information Systems, espescially ArcGIS
Additional Responsibilities
* Supervision of field team and data entry/processing
* Disseminate results at scientific professional conferences and
in peer-reviewed literature
* Report writing
* Grant proposal development, as needed
Salary: Salary is commensurate with experience (starting salary is
$38,496 per year). This position is eligible for benefits.
Timing and duration: The position is available beginning January,
2012 (possible earlier start date may be negotiable) and is
fully-funded for four years. A two-year commitment is requested.
Location: Berkeley, CA
Please submit PDFs of a CV, a brief cover letter highlighting your
relevant experience, interests and career goals, and names and
contacts of 3 references by email to
<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] no later than Oct 7,
2011. Applicants should have a recent PhD degree.
Applications may be reviewed as they are received. For further
information about the project please contact Dr. Claire Kremen
directly at <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected].
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative
Action Employer committed to excellence through diversity. Applicants
should ask referees to review the UC Berkeley Statement of
Confidentiality found at
<http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html>http://apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html.
