Assistant Research Scientist - Postdoc Arctic Ecosystem Modeling

We invite applications for a postdoctoral scholar for an Assistant Research Scientist (ARS) position at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) in Solomons, Maryland. This ARS position is a one-to-two-year position that combines Arctic ecosystem modeling with the possibility of ship based field work. The successful applicant will contribute ecosystem-based modeling of multidisciplinary data focused on benthic systems and key environmental drivers in the Pacific Arctic as part of the Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO; http://dbo.cbl.umces.edu). The successful applicant will work to incorporate DBO physical, biogeochemical, and biological field data into a coupled biophysical model to be developed for the Pacific Arctic. The successful applicant will link field and modeling activities that will promote development of forecasts for predicting ecosystem responses to changing sea ice conditions and warming seawater in the Pacific Arctic. A key focus of the modeling effort will be studies of the status and trends related to pelagic-benthic coupling and benthic population dynamics in responses to key physical drivers in the Pacific influenced Arctic. Many of these environmental drivers for changing biological communities are not directly driven by differences in ice cover, but instead relate to different advective regimes, stratification, current patterns, and upwelling events that influence nutrient content, plankton and benthic populations dynamics.
This ARS position requires a doctorate by the start of the position and has the potential for an extension beyond two years, if funding becomes available.
Contact Drs. Jackie Grebmeier (jgrebmei@umces.edu) and/or Lee Cooper (cooper@umces.edu) for additional information about the position.

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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

Solomons, MD

Faculty

The successful applicant should have a background that includes understanding of oceanographic systems and be experienced in multidisciplinary modeling approaches. The applicant will also have the opportunity to participate in international planning efforts to expand the DBO to a pan-Arctic network. PhD in Oceanography or Marine Science field and/or an advanced degree in Spatial Modeling or a related analytical field.

Exempt

$62,500

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science unleashes the power of science to transform the way society understands and manages the environment. By conducting cutting-edge research into today’s most pressing environmental problems, we are developing new ideas to help guide our state, nation, and world toward a more environmentally sustainable future through five research centers—the Appalachian Laboratory in Frostburg, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, the Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology in Baltimore, and the Maryland Sea Grant College in College Park. www.umces.edu

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01/20/2024

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