[ECOLOG-L] New postdoc opportunities at SESYNC

[Emily Cassidy]

Postdoc Fellowship Opportunities at SESYNC

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites applications 
from early career scholars (≤ 4 years post PhD) for two-year postdoctoral 
fellowships that begin August 2018. Each fellow works with a Collaborating 
Mentor (scholar) of their choosing to co-develop a synthesis research project. 

Successful candidates will use synthesis methods to address a problem arising 
from, or associated with, the relationship between humans and the environment. 
Synthesis is a research approach that accelerates knowledge production by 
distilling or integrating existing data, ideas, theories, and/or methods to 
draw more reliable or generalizable conclusions and to reveal novel areas of 
study. Regardless of approach, fellows' projects take advantage of existing 
data/information; SESYNC does not fund fellows to collect new field or survey 
data. Priority will be given to projects that have the potential to advance 
understanding of socio-environmental systems, but the synthesis may be 
primarily social or environmental in nature, or some mix. 

Prospective fellows who propose the use of advanced theoretical, computational, 
and/or mathematical approaches or the use of Long-term Ecological Research 
(LTER) and other long-term datasets to study the structure and dynamics of 
socio-environmental systems are particularly encouraged to apply.

Check out sesync.us/postdoc2018 for more details and to apply.


Zero-Deforestation Supply Chain Postdoc 

SESYNC also invites applications from early career scholars for a two-year 
postdoctoral fellowship that begins in January 2018. The fellow will be in 
residence at SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland as a full participant in SESYNC's 
Postdoctoral Immersion Program. The selected individual will collaborate on a 
SESYNC Pursuit focused on zero-deforestation commitments, commodity flows, and 
land use change in South America. Check out sesync.us/supplychain for more 
information.

Please consider applying or share with your colleagues!

Thanks,
Emily

Emily S. Cassidy
Science Communications Coordinator
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
University of Maryland
Email: ecass...@sesync.org
Phone: 410-919-4990

[ECOLOG-L] New Postdoc Opportunities at SESYNC

[Emily Cassidy]

The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) invites applications 
for three exciting new Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities scheduled to start 
in August 2017. Applicants should submit their CV and a detailed cover letter 
by May 18. A follow-up proposal will be requested of qualifying applicants at 
the end of May.


*   SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellowship - Supply Chain Commitments

Applicants will propose ideas for a data synthesis or modeling project to 
assess effectiveness of zero-deforestation commitments in in South America. 
More information can be found at 
sesync.us/supplychain.


*   SESYNC-Microsoft Postdoctoral Fellowship - Big Data and 
Socio-Environmental Sustainability

Applicants are expected to use one or more assets developed by Microsoft which 
include a high-resolution land-cover dataset of the Chesapeake Bay and Puget 
Sound Watersheds, and a variety of data collected on the presence, genetics, 
and environmental conditions for mosquitos and their hosts. More information is 
posted online at sesync.us/bigdata.



*   SESYNC-RTI Postdoctoral Fellowship - Modeling the Impacts of Climate 
Variability on the Nutritional Value of Crops and Potential Effects on Human 
Health and Well-being

Applicants will propose a project that characterizes and models the complex 
dynamics between climate variability, nutrition, and human health. Dr. Robert 
Beach of the Research Triangle Institute will be their primary Collaborating 
Mentor. More information is online at sesync.us/crops.


Emily S. Cassidy
Science Communications Coordinator
National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
University of Maryland
Email: ecass...@sesync.org
Phone: 410-919-4990