A two-year postdoctoral fellowship position is
available at the Dept of Biological Sciences at
Wellesley College to co-lead a NSF-funded project
on plankton biodiversity at Lake Baikal, Siberia.
The goal of this multidisciplinary,
multi-institutional project is to determine if
the genetic and functional diversity of endemic
plankton species will allow them to adapt and
persist in a changing climate or whether they
will be replaced by cosmopolitan species.
Research on-site at Lake Baikal and at Wellesley
College will quantify functional and taxonomic
diversity of Baikals zooplankton. This project
will be carried out in collaboration with Dr.
Marianne V. Moore, Wellesley College, and other
participating faculty and students at Michigan
State University, UC-Santa Barbara, University of
Texas, and East Tennessee State University. In
addition to pursuing the projects core research
questions, the candidate will also have the
flexibility to develop their own independent research project.
Requirements:
· Ph.D. in aquatic ecology or limnology
· Experience culturing zooplankton in the
laboratory and conducting laboratory experiments with plankton
· Strong quantitative skills
· Record of peer-reviewed publication
· Willingness to spend 3 months each summer and
1-2 weeks in winter at Lake Baikal
· Interest in learning Russian and experiencing Russian culture
A starting salary of $50,000 per year plus health
and dental insurance will be provided. Applicants
should attach their CV to an email describing
their research interests and career goals,
starting date availability, and contact
information for three references. Send this email
to
<mailto:mmo...@wellesley.edu>mmo...@wellesley.edu
with the subject line Baikal postdoc application.
Please feel free to ask questions about your fit
to the position before applying. Start date is
negotiable, ideally March 1, 2012.
For a project abstract, see:
<http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1136657>http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1136657
For more information about the history of this
Russian-American collaboration, see:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/earth/06lake.html>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/earth/06lake.html
Several papers authored by members of this
US-Russian collaboration:
<http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Mmoore/publications.html>http://www.wellesley.edu/Biology/Faculty/Mmoore/publications.html
