The Environmental & Climate Sciences Department (www.bnl.gov/envsci ) at Brookhaven National Laboratory focuses on a wide range of theoretical, experimental, and field studies in support of the U.S. Department of Energy's climate and energy research agendas.

The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Technology (TEST) group in the Environmental & Climate Sciences Department seeks to improve the representation of ecosystem processes in Earth System Models to increase our ability to understand and project global change. We study processes that have a global impact on climate, and focus on ecosystems that are poorly understood, sensitive to global change, and inadequately represented in models. Our goal is to advance process level understanding of terrestrial ecosystems, incorporate new knowledge into models, reduce model uncertainty and ultimately improve our ability to understand and project global change. 

PROJECT OVERVIEW

The selected candidates will join the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science & Technology Group (www.bnl.gov/envsci/testgroup ) and become a part of a multi-institutional, multi-national research project, Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) – Tropics (https://ngee-tropics.lbl.gov/ ). The NGEE-Tropics project represents a decadal investment by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science to advance model predictions of tropical forest carbon cycle responses to a changing climate.

The Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Technology (TEST) group is seeking a post-doc interested in improving understanding and model representation of leaf and canopy level processes that regulate the exchange of carbon, water, and energy in tropical forests to enable improved projections of the response of tropical forests to climate change. The successful candidate will join a small, highly collaborative, and supportive group at BNL and collaborate with other scientists as part of the multi-institutional Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments - Tropics project (ngee-tropics.lbl.gov). This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Conduct measurements at NGEE tropics field sites to advance understanding and model representation of leaf and canopy processes in tropical forests.
• Work with the NGEE tropics modeling team to ensure integration of empirical insights into the NGEE tropics vegetation demography model (FATES) and assist in testing FATES against field observations
• Publish results in peer-reviewed journals and present at scientific conferences

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Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ph.D. in plant biology, ecology, or a closely related field
• Clear and concise oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Willingness to work in remote field locations, potentially for extended periods
• Demonstrated history of publishing results of research in peer-reviewed, scientific journals
• Ability to work collaboratively in team-based research environment

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Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to speak Spanish and Portuguese

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OTHER INFORMATION:

• Initial 2-year term appointment subject to renewal contingent on performance and funding
• BNL policy requires that after obtaining a PhD, eligible candidates for research associate appointments may not exceed a combined total of 5 years of relevant work experience as a post-doc and/or in an R&D position, excluding time associated with family planning, military service, illness or other life-changing events
• Work under the supervision of Alistair Rogers
• We are now considering applications and the position will remain open until a suitable candidate has been identified. To ensure full consideration please apply beforeSeptember 30, 2023
• Position will require occasional foreign/domestic travel
• This is an on-site position eligible for consideration of flexible work arrangement (hybrid telework) at the discretion of the manager/dept chair
• Applicants must have a valid driver’s license and a willingness to drive in foreign countries, often off road

Brookhaven Laboratory is committed to providing fair, equitable and competitive compensation. The full salary range for this position is $65,200-86,600-108,000. Salary offers will be commensurate with the final candidate’s qualification, education and experience and considered with the internal peer group.

Brookhaven employees are subject to restrictions related to participation in Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Programs, as defined and detailed in United States Department of Energy Order 486.1A. You will be asked to disclose any such participation at the time of hire for review by Brookhaven. The full text of the Order may be found at: https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0486.1-BOrder-a/@@images/file