Post-Doctoral Fellow in Food Web Modeling An 18-month post-doctoral position is available starting September 1, 2009 to work on a NSF-funded collaborative research project in the laboratories of Aaron Ellison at the Harvard Forest and Nick Gotelli at the University of Vermont. The post-doc will work with the PIs to develop spatially-explicit, stochastic models of food web assembly using the pitcher-plant food web as a model system. The post-doc will be based at Harvard Forest.
Responsibilities include: synthesis and modeling of existing datasets on assembly of pitcher-plant food webs. The opportunity exists to supervise undergraduate summer researchers and collect additional data in summer 2010 to field validate and further calibrate the model. Qualifications: Ph.D. in mathematical or community ecology either in hand or anticipated by August 31, 2009. Applicants should possess demonstrated expertise with writing and coding mathematical/statistical models as well as superb writing and organizational skills. Preference will be given to applicants with demonstrated facility in modeling and analysis of dynamical systems. To apply: Send cv, one relevant example publication or manuscript, and names of 3 references all as PDF attachments to Aaron Ellison: aelli...@fas.harvard.edu no later than 31 July 2009. Applicants who will be attending the 2009 ESA meetings in Albuquerque should plan to interview for the position during the meeting.
