Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Essential Job Duties

The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources has a wide variety of strengths in forestry and natural resources management, policy and economics, environmental science and technology, renewable energy assessment, wildlife and conservation biology, tree improvement, silviculture, forest biotechnology, and international forestry.

Core duties and responsibilities include:

• Leading and conducting collaborative research on the influence of climate variability on mountainous forest ecosystems as part of the Watershed Science Focus Area.
• Developing integrative analysis/approaches that use field observation of tree ring data (width and carbon and oxygen isotopes), remote sensing data, machine learning, and modelling to investigate forest changes and decline due to perturbations (e.g., warming, drought).
• Co-leading field campaigns for ground data collections in the Rocky Mountains for several days.
• Authoring peer-reviewed conference and journal papers.
• Participating actively in project meetings and workshops.

Seeking a Postdoctoral Research Scholar for an immediate project. Funding is guaranteed for an initial 6 months, with a further 6-month extension contingent upon funding.

Other Work/Responsibilities

Mentoring students’ lab management, grant writing, and service, intended to build independence beyond primary research.