Amazon ecosystem modeling research opportunity announced

CHANS-Net members Eric Lambin and Jose Fragoso, of Stanford University, are looking for a post-doctoral associate for an 18-month appointment to analyze and model how changes in land use affect biodiversity, biomass, soil nutrients and socioeconomic factors in Amazon areas inhabited by indigenous people.

Applicants should be able to combine multiple data sources in analyses and models. The position requires extremely strong skills in multivariate statistical analyses, simulation modeling of ecosystem processes and spatial analysis (GIS/remote sensing).

The research will use existing field data from the region. In a spatially explicit way, the model will represent the effect of land use on forest cover, the effect of forest cover change on biodiversity and carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems, and how changes in ecosystem services effect patterns of land use. The model should represent fine-grained, landscape scale processes.

A letter of interest and curriculum vitae are due by July 10.

Read the complete integrated land use and ecosystem modeling post-doctoral associate posting.