EPA's National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL) Post-doctoral Research Program is seeking applicants to conduct research to develop transferable systems models for Pacific northwest coastal areas to link changes in land use and climate (particularly temperature and precipitation) to the delivery and transformation of nutrients, sediment, toxics, or pathogens to freshwater and estuarine ecosystems and the goods and services they provide to coastal communities. The research will likely include integration of existing models. Secondary research goals are to develop a framework for linking models for individual watersheds into networks of multiple watersheds across larger spatial extents, and to develop explicit connections between the system model and models or endpoints of human well-being to support scenario exploration for local and regional decision making. The position will be located at NHEERL’s Western Ecology Division, Pacific Coastal Ecology laboratory in Newport, OR. Applications are due by June 8, 2015.
For additional scientific information about this project, contact Dr. Ted DeWitt (dewitt....@epa.gov). Application details and materials may be found at: http://cfpub.epa.gov/ordpd/PostDoc_Lab.cfm?Lab=NHEERL
