Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Gretchen Daily

The Natural Capital Project at Stanford, together with collaborators at the Stanford Medical School, is seeking a creative, collaborative postdoctoral scholar to help lead a randomized controlled trial to study the effectiveness of park prescriptions in a clinical setting. Our “Nature Prescriptions to Improve Health” project is designed to explore the effectiveness of park prescriptions that can equip physicians with nonpharmacologic methods that could increase the health and wellbeing of individuals. The postdoc will analyze data from wearables (e.g., heart rate variability, step counts), from electronic medical records and from surveys to explore changes in time outdoors and changes in health and wellbeing. The postdoc will join a vibrant collaborative team working to advance the science connecting nature exposure to health and to develop generalizable models for informing urban planning and other decisions affecting people and nature in urban environments.

The Natural Capital Project (NatCap), a partnership centered at Stanford, is an interdisciplinary team of academics, software engineers, and real-world professionals working to integrate the value nature provides to society into all major decisions. Our ultimate objective is to improve the well-being of all people and nature by motivating greater and more targeted natural capital investments.

This position is for one year–with the possibility of extension based on performance and funding availability. We are hopeful for a start-date ASAP. The postdoctoral scholar will be based in the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, part of the Doerr Sustainability School and co-advised by Dr. Gretchen Daily and Dr. Anne Guerry and by Dr. Chethan Sarabu at the School of Medicine with additional advisory support from Dr. Ann Hsing and Dr. Abby King (also at the School of Medicine).