We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join an interdisciplinary team of ecologists, hydrologists and engineers on a two-year project funded by the Great Plains LCC and the South Central Climate Science Center. We aim to identify conservation strategies for navigating trade-offs between societal water usage and ecosystem outcomes in the Red River. Research activities will include: forecasting stream fish distributions under future climate and water availability scenarios; collaborating with hydrologists and computer scientists to delineate trade-offs between societal needs for water and instream flows; and working with conservation practitioners to identify cost-effective conservation strategies that balance societal water needs and ecosystem outcomes. Applicants should have a genuine interest in agency/NGO outreach, as well as a desire to make contributions to conservation science that are transferable to other ecosystems. Applicants should be fluent in R and have experience with manipulation of large geospatial datasets.
The postdoc will be based in the Dept. of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma and supervised by Drs. Thomas Neeson and Hernan Moreno, and will collaborate with the Systems Realization Laboratory and South Central Climate Science Center at OU. To apply, please email a CV, statement of interest and contact info for three references to nee...@ou.edu. Deadline: Sept. 15, 2017.
