I am seeking a highly motivated and well prepared Postdoctoral Scholar to investigate relationships between land cover, surface energy balance, trace-gas emissions, and biodiversity across a coastal to desert gradient in southern California. Overall project objectives are to quantify the drivers of regional variation in surface-atmosphere exchanges and connect these processes to sustainability trade-offs associated with regional landscapes. The successful candidate will use an existing network of fixed and mobile eddy covariance systems in addition to other micrometeorological and soil sensors, handheld thermal imagers, isotopic analyses, and targeted field studies. Collaboration is expected with a remote sensing expert who is working with new imaging spectrometer and multi-band thermal airborne imagery throughout the region. Research activities should emphasize both hypothesis testing and more general integration with process models. Candidates will need excellent preparation in field instrumentation, analyses of complex data, landscape ecology, urban ecology, ecohydrology, or related field. Candidates with experience environmental sensing techniques, remote and in-situ data integration, or land surface modeling are particularly encouraged to apply. The successful candidate will provide leadership to the research team including graduate and undergraduate students, technicians, postdocs, and other faculty. Development of individual research activities and collaborations with others is encouraged.
The position is based at University of California at Riverside, CA. Salary and benefits are competitive and based on experience. The position is for 1 year, renewable for a second year. Inquiries and applications should be sent as a single PDF containing CV, contact information for three references, and cover letter with qualifications and research interests to Dr. Darrel Jenerette (darrel.jenere...@ucr.edu). Initial review of candidates will begin Feb 15, 2014 and is open immediately. Underrepresented applicants are encouraged to apply.
