Join Our Lab - Open Positions
The Department of Global Ecology, founded in 2002 on the campus of Stanford University, conducts basic and applied research into the interactions among Earth’s ecosystems, land, atmosphere, oceans, and people with a goal of informing the sustainability of the Earth system. Department faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduate students, technical and administrative staff work to understand how our planet operates, and how it will respond to future changes. We place a particular focus on research questions that will have a substantial impact on our ability to manage the Earth system, and that have a high likelihood of leading to breakthroughs on timescales that are compatible with the urgency of the climate, biodiversity, energy, and food security crises facing our planet.
We currently have one open position. Please see the description below:
Postdoctoral Research Associate: Quantifying climate impacts on inland and coastal eutrophication
The Department of Global Ecology at the Carnegie Institution for Science (CIS) is seeking Postdoctoral Research Associates to contribute to research that aims to quantify climate change impacts on freshwater and coastal water quality via influences on nutrient delivery to, and on conditions within, water bodies. Our approach is highly data-driven, with a common methodological thread being the development and application of statistical approaches for optimizing the use of limited in situ and remote sensing environmental data.
There will be considerable flexibility regarding specific scientific questions to be examined, but potential areas of focus include:
- Attribution of historical water-quality trends and extreme events to climate change and variability;
- Assessment of historical and future nutrient loading, phytoplankton blooms, and hypoxia in data-poor regions;
- Development of approaches for using modern satellite-based observations for assessing global variability in lacustrine phytoplankton blooms;
- Development of partnerships with other labs on targeted field-based projects for assessing climate drivers of water quality impairments;
- Assessment of water quality management strategies in terms of their robustness to future changes in climate and, conversely, their potential climate impacts.