[SRM] postdoc opportunity - disturbance and invasive plants in western forests and understanding wildfire risk

[Gornish, Elise - (egornish)]

From: Kerns, Becky -FS <becky.kerns at usda.gov<mailto:becky.kerns at usda.gov>>
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2022 4:29 PM
To: Progar, Robert - FS <robert.progar at usda.gov<mailto:robert.progar at usda.gov>>; Ott, Jacqueline -FS <jacqueline.ott at usda.gov<mailto:jacqueline.ott at usda.gov>>; Pile, Lauren - FS <lauren.pile at usda.gov<mailto:lauren.pile at usda.gov>>; Lucardi, Rima -FS <rima.lucardi at usda.gov<mailto:rima.lucardi at usda.gov>>; Vogt, James -FS <james.t.vogt at usda.gov<mailto:james.t.vogt at usda.gov>>; Huebner, Cynthia -FS <cynthia.d.huebner at usda.gov<mailto:cynthia.d.huebner at usda.gov>>
Subject: Outreach for postdoc

Hello - I am hoping you can help with outreach for this position! Feel free to share widely!

A postdoc research opportunity is available with the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR. We are seeking a high motivated person to help co-lead some new research looking at disturbance and invasive plants in western forests and understanding wildfire risk. Research opportunities for the fellow will be organized around two primary activities: 1) designing and implementing a complex field-based invasion ecology research project, and 2) collaborating with a team to help develop a major state of the science book chapter focused on inter-relationships between fire and invasive plants in the United States, with a focus on western forests. A key role (#1) will be the opportunity to co-lead a new western to potentially national field experiment focused on evaluating the role of plant propagule pressure (via weed pretreatments) and disturbance intensity in understanding plant invasion in forests. Complex interactions between disturbance (fire, thinning or logging), other abiotic factors, biotic processes, propagule pressure, and invasion are rarely studied together. This is a unique opportunity to design and implement a series of novel and complex manipulative experiments and author new contributions to the literature. The candidate can consult extensively with leading experts in the field and local land managers to help design the study. Other opportunities may include collaborating on ongoing projects, such as analyzing wildfire model simulation output, helping with fire science outreach efforts as part of the Joint Fire Science Exchange Network, and grant writing. The fellow will also have an opportunity to develop or participate in new and emerging avenues of research related to fire, invasive plants, and natural resource management.

This opportunity is through the ORISE program. The fellow will be hosted and housed by the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Funding provided by the Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center.
You can read about the opportunity and apply here:
Title: USFS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Invasive Plant and Disturbance Ecology
Reference Code: USDA-USFS-2022-0134
The opportunity details can be found:
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Becky K. Kerns, PhD     (she/her)
Research Ecologist
Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA)
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
3200 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
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