Postdoc: Forest Resilience & Disturbance Modeling

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral scholar to engage in research as part of a collaborative team across University of Utah, University of California Irvine, and University of California Santa Barbara focused on understanding disturbance impacts on terrestrial carbon cycling in the continental US and Canada. The postdoctoral scholar will lead work on developing and validating vegetation models for key disturbance processes representative of forest dynamics across the US and Canada as part of a cohort of four postdoctoral team members across institutions.

The postdoc will be based in the Trugman Lab at UC Santa Barbara.

We seek a highly motivated Postdoctoral Scholar to work at the interface disturbance ecology, forest dynamics, and ecosystem modeling based in the Trugman Lab at UC Santa Barbara. The successful candidate will work closely with an interdisciplinary team of ecologists, modelers, and remote sensing scientists to integrate remote sensing products and existing datasets into a mechanistic modeling framework. The position offers substantial intellectual independence and opportunities to publish high-impact research addressing forest resilience, disturbance regimes, and climate change.

Applicants must hold a PhD or must have completed all requirements for a PhD program (or equivalent) in ecology, environmental science, forestry, Earth system science, or a closely related field, except the dissertation, at the time of application.