Postdoctoral fellowship in modeling and remote sensing at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Summary: Postdoctoral positions are available within the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division to work on modeling or remote sensing of vegetation dynamics at the local to global scales. Successful applicants in the modeling realm will work with the most recent version of the Community Land Model coupled with the Ecosystem Demography model (CLM(ED)) in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research and other DOE national laboratories. The successful applicants in the remote sensing realm will focus on vegetation mortality monitoring, interpretation, and application to testing models at multiple scales (regional to global). In both cases, an emphasis on developing, testing, or applying CLM(ED) and remote sensing techniques to simulation and understanding of vegetation mortality and recovery is our main focus. Additionally, we encourage applicants who can work across disciplines and draw upon large and unique data sets to study linkages between large-scale climate and forest processes. This is a rolling application and will remain open for multiple applicants until February 2016. Required skills for modeling include experience developing or applying numerical simulation models. Required skills for remote sensing include experience using remote sensing techniques to quantify and interpret vegetation pattern changes. Required skills for both positions include demonstrated ability to publish peer-reviewed papers, effective written and oral communication skills, willingness to work in a team environment, and a Ph.D. pending or received within the last five years. Desired skills include knowledge of physiological, ecosystem, population, or community ecology; programming skills in Fortran; and data assimilation skills that integrate model and data. For more information or to apply please send a resume and a short statement of your future research goals to Nate McDowell ([email protected], http://climateresearch.lanl.gov/). Candidates may be considered for a Director's Fellowship and outstanding candidates may be considered for the prestigious J. Robert Oppenheimer, Richard P. Feynman or Frederick Reines Fellowships. For general information about LANLs postdoctoral program please refer to the Postdoctoral Program page (http://www.lanl.gov/careers/career-options/postdoctoral-research/postdoc-program/).
