Seeking a Post-Doctoral Associate to archive and synthesize data sets from two long-term elevated carbon dioxide experiments. The ideal candidate will have a background in ecosystem-level carbon cycling and skills relevant to data archiving, extraction, synthesis, and modeling. The candidate will use software designed for extracting and organizing varied and complex data sets, provide data to modelers for synthetic modeling exercises, and publish synthetic analyses of data from the two experiments. One experiment is ongoing and has 25 years of data from a tidal marsh; the other has 10 years of data from a scrub oak forest. The sets include data on carbon fluxes such as net ecosystem exchange and carbon pools in plants and soils. The Associate will interact with groups from other elevated carbon dioxide experiments engaged in synthetic modeling.
The Associate will be based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, a 2,650 acre complex of forests, farms, wetlands and Chesapeake Bay shoreline (see www.serc.si.edu). The Center's 100+ employees commute from both nearby rural towns and nearby urban areas such as Annapolis, MD and Washington, DC. The appointment is for one year and may be renewed for one additional year, and the salary is $45,000 per year. To apply, e-mail a letter of interest and CV to the address below. Applications will be reviewed beginning Jun 29th until the position is filled. Dr. Patrick Megonigal Smithsonian Environmental Research Center P.O. Box 28 Edgewater, MD 21037-0028 [email protected] or 443-482-2346
