We’re searching for a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to assist us launch a brand new world water potential community (“PSInet”), and to conduct analysis that harnesses info from a number of environmental commentary networks, together with a brand new PSInet water potential database and different networks that combination knowledge on ecosystem carbon and water fluxes and eco-physiological traits.
Date posted
Might 4, 2023 10:15 am
Software deadline
Might 30, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
Indiana College
Location
Job description
We’re searching for a highly-motivated postdoctoral fellow to assist us launch a brand new world water potential community (“PSInet”), and to conduct analysis that harnesses info from a number of environmental commentary networks, together with a brand new PSInet water potential database and different networks that combination knowledge on ecosystem carbon and water fluxes and eco-physiological traits.
The water potential of soils and vegetation immediately controls the circulate of water via ecosystems and is a key regulator of plant mortality danger throughout droughts and warmth waves. Nonetheless, observations of water potential (generally abbreviated with the Greek letter ‘Psi’) are ceaselessly scarce, inaccessible, and suffering from methodological challenges that hinder the artificial analysis essential to anticipate, and put together for, local weather change impacts in pure and managed ecosystems. PSInet – a brand new community of knowledge and folks – will confront this info hole by: 1) selling constant assortment and interpretation of water potential knowledge via shared protocols, greatest practices, and early profession coaching, 2) creating an open, world database for plant and soil water potential time sequence, and three) conducting synthesis analysis enabled by the PSInet database via supporting a various group of scientists and practitioners.
The postdoctoral fellow will play an integral function in growing and coordinating PSInet actions in collaboration with a various, world group of scientists. The guy will even work with PSInet workforce members to advance approaches for accumulating and deciphering steady measurements of plant water potential, along with different artificial analysis subjects throughout the scope of the PSInet initiative.
The postdoctoral fellow shall be co-supervised by Dr. Kim Novick (Indiana College – Bloomington) and Dr. Steve Kannenberg (West Virginia College), with ample alternatives to collaborate with different members of the worldwide PSInet group. The postdoctoral fellow will doubtless be primarily based in Bloomington, Indiana or Morgantown, West Virginia, however there’s flexibility on location, together with the likelihood for the candidate to work remotely. The place is anticipated to final for twenty-four months starting in late Summer season of 2023.
{Qualifications}: The profitable utility could have earned a Ph.D. in environmental science or engineering, ecology, environmental informatics, or a associated subject at time of appointment. Different key {qualifications} embody sturdy written and verbal communication expertise, demonstrated expertise organizing collaborative groups, and expertise analyzing eco-hydrological or eco-physiological time sequence knowledge (e.g., flux tower knowledge, sap flux knowledge, water potential time sequence).
To use, please submit: 1) a letter of utility that explains how this place matches your expertise and objectives, 2) your curriculum vita, and three) names of at the very least three references electronically to https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/18279. We’ll start reviewing functions on Might 31, 2023. Please submit all supplies earlier than that deadline for full consideration. Inquiries concerning the place must be despatched to: Dr. Kim Novick, knovick@indiana.edu or Dr. Steve Kannenberg, steven.kannenberg@mail.wvu.edu.
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