Postdoc Position: Tundra Vegetation Change and
1 week ago
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Job Profile
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Job Title
**Postdoc position**: Tundra vegetation change and implications for wildlife habitats
Department
Research | Myers-Smith Lab | Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry
Compensation Range
$1.00 - $500,000.00 CAD Monthly
Posting End Date
April 15, 2024
**Note**: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.
Job End Date
Mar 31, 2026
The expected pay for this position is $5,000.00/month.
**Postdoc position**: Tundra vegetation change and implications for wildlife habitats
Job description
There is an urgent need to understand the effects of climate change on tundra ecosystems including vegetation change such as shrubification. Increasing shrub cover is modifying the habitats of key wildlife species including caribou, muskox (Ovibos moschatus), moose (Alces alces) and Dall sheep (Ovis dalli dalli), facilitating increases in predator populations. Changes to plant habitat can have critical impacts on animal population dynamics and trophic interactions among plants, prey and predators. Thus, understanding vegetation change will be critical to understanding the fate of wildlife populations and shifts in Arctic food webs in a rapidly warming Arctic.
In this postdoc project, you will study vegetation change over time across spatial scales and will explore the implications for wildlife habitats. You will work with available ecological and remote sensing data to quantify changes in vegetation change across spatial and temporal scales and the implications for wildlife. Research questions will be co-developed with Indigenous communities in the Canadian North. This research will increase our understanding of tundra vegetation change and the implications for wildlife species. We collaborate with a team of early career researchers, Northern partners and international experts to conduct this research.
Minimum Qualifications
A PhD degree in ecology, remote sensing, environmental sciences or a related field
Strong quantitative skills including ecological data analysis, statistical analysis and data management
Experience in R and/or Python programming
An interest in interdisciplinary research spanning the fields of ecology, remote sensing, spatial analysis and mathematical ecology
Experience in writing and publishing peer-reviewed articles
Fluency in verbal and written English
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Ability to work independently and lead multi-author collaborative research projects
Interest in working in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment as a part of a diverse team
Willingness to provide mentorship to early career researchers on the team
Preferred Qualifications
Experience using version control software and conducting collaborative science
Willingness to lead fieldwork in Arctic locations
Knowledge of spatial analysis and Bayesian statistics
Experience conducting fieldwork
Experience conducting ecological data synthesis
Experience in northern ecosystems
Experience piloting drone and working with drone imagery
Offer
About the Organization
This position will be based at the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, the University of British Columbia, Vancouver campus, which is located on the territory of the Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) People.
The University of British Columbia is a global centre for teaching, learning and research, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. The University of British Columbia's (UBC) Faculty of Forestry is recognized globally as one of the leading forestry faculties in the world. As the largest Faculty of Forestry in Canada, we welcome almost 1500 undergraduate and graduate students from over 40 countries every year to study forestry at UBC.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada The University of British Columbia Full timeAcademic Job Category Faculty Non Bargaining Job Title Postdoc position: Tundra vegetation change and implications for wildlife habitats Department Research | Myers-Smith Lab | Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry (Isla Myers-Smith) Posting End Date May 31, 2024 Note: Applications will be accepted until...
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