Postdoctoral researcher position available in population/community ecology.
Dr Daniel Reuman is recruiting into his lab in the University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Kansas Biological Survey. Three years of funding are currently available. The broad research goal of the lab is to mechanistically understand and predict the consequences of human impacts such as global warming on populations, communities, and ecosystems. We use mathematical, statistical, and computational approaches, and collaborate widely with field and laboratory workers to explain observations, confront theory with data, and make predictions. Example projects include: 1) an international project using new and existing wavelet analysis techniques to understand how patterns of metapopulation synchrony ramify through marine and terrestrial communities; 2) ongoing long-term efforts to understand how climate change affects whole ecological communities, using study systems including artificial mesocosms and geothermally heated streams in Iceland; and 3) projects to understand how the history of habitat fragmentation in the Amazon and elsewhere affects modern and future patterns of biodiversity. Details can be found in the publications listed here: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/AP/faces/pages/read/Home.jsp?person=d.reuman&_adf.ctrl-state=1bn2hlx7w8_143&_afrRedirect=2769289021706584 We are seeking either an individual with special software expertise to contribute to ongoing projects and take them in new research directions; or an especially motivated and productive individual with his/her own research direction that fits well into the lab; or a combination. The University of Kansas (KU) is a major research university with special strength in ecology and evolutionary biology. The EEB department has 40 tenured and tenure-track faculty working in a wide variety of areas, with National Research Council and Chronicle of Higher Education rankings in the top 10 in the USA. KU is located in the town of Lawrence, Kansas, about 40 miles from Kansas City. Lawrence is a progressive and cosmopolitan university town, with vibrant art, music, and sports scenes. Lawrence was ranked among the top ten college towns in the country in 2012 by livability.com, beating, for instance, Ann Arbor, MI, and Austin, TX. For questions contact Dan Reuman at [email protected]. To apply see http://employment.ku.edu/staff/313BR. Initial review of applications begins 5 May 2014; position open until filled.
