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Postdoctoral Scholar: Quantitative Plant Hydraulics
Job Description
- Agency
- Colorado State University
- Location
- Fort Colins, Colorado
- Job Category
- Post Doctoral Appointments
- Salary
- $60,000 to $65,000
- Last Date to Apply
- 07/31/2023
- Website
- https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/126147
- Description
- Company: Colorado State University Title: Postdoctoral Scholar: Quantitative Plant Hydraulics Location: Fort Colins, Colorado Full job description: https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/126147 Apply by date for full consideration: 07/31/2023 Salary Range: $60,000 to $65,000 Position Summary: Founded in 1870, Colorado State University is among the nation’s leading research universities and enrolls approximately 32,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Located an hour north of the Denver metro area, Fort Collins is a vibrant community of approximately 157,000 residents that offers the convenience of a small town with all the amenities of a large city. Fort Collins is situated on the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains with views of 14,000 foot peaks, and offers access to numerous cultural, recreational, and outdoor opportunities. Housed within the Warner College of Natural Resources, the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University is an interdisciplinary academic program uniquely poised to advance education, research, and outreach in vegetation measurements and forest biometry. The existing programs in the department include forest ecology, forest economics and management, forest fire science, rangeland ecology and management, resource policy and planning, and geospatial sciences. The Warner College of Natural Resources is home to five academic departments and several centers and institutes such as the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, the WESTFIRE Research Center, the Colorado State Forest Service, Natural Resource Ecology Lab, Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands and the Colorado Natural Heritage Program. These programs, institutes and centers provide a foundation for research, education and outreach in this field. Linkages across department and colleges, and with federal and state land managers and research centers, form a broader interdisciplinary foundation for increased impact. The plant ecophysiology labs at CSU (PI: Ocheltree) and the ARS (PI: Gleason) are seeking applications for a post-doctoral researcher to either: 1) Develop a numerical model of fluid flow through the vasculature of plants (ie. Porous media), or 2) Develop new methods to quantify the flow of water and formation of embolisms in the xylem conduits of grass leaves. The postdoc will be expected to perform independent research toward the development of, at least, one of these two goals. There are several existing xylem network models that could serve as possible starting points for the desired model, but all these models have shortcomings that prevent wide implementation within the plant physiology community. The model will need to include water and gas flows through individual vessel elements and pit membranes scaled up to the whole-plant xylem, including root, stem, branch, and leaf xylem components. Similarly, methods exist for quantifying water flow and embolism formation in leaves, but many of these techniques have limitations when applied to the parallel venation of grass leaves. Our overall goal for this work is to improve our ability to explain and predict plant performance across a range of environmental conditions by investigating fine-scale patterns of water and gas movement in leaves. Both goals listed above will require the postdoc to draw from diverse fields of study, possibly including civil engineering (e.g., design of municipal water resources), electrical engineering (e.g., circuit design and analysis), porous media, computer science, and plant biology. We are especially interested in candidates that have a background in engineering, physics, and/or computer science that are interested in utilizing their skills to impact the field of biology and/or ecology. The successful applicant will be based at Colorado State University but will be required to collaborate closely with researchers at Colorado State University, the US Department of Agriculture, the Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands), Ulm University (Germany), and the University of Campinas (Brazil). The postdoc will be expected to co-author manuscripts for scientific journals, write progress reports, assist with proposal writing, and train collaborators. Employee Benefits: Colorado State University (CSU) is committed to providing employees with a strong and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Visit CSU’s Human Resources website for detailed benefit plan information for permanent full-time and part-time faculty and administrative professional employees in the following University benefit areas: https://hr.colostate.edu/hr-community-and-supervisors/benefits/benefits-eligibility/ & https://hr.colostate.edu/prospective-employees/our-perks/. Colorado State University conducts background checks on all final candidates. CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer.
- Qualifications
- Required Qualifications: • PhD degree in engineering (civil, electrical, porous media, etc.), computational biology, plant physiology or commensurate knowledge and experience designing hydraulic networks, programming, vascular biology, and model development.
- Contact Person
- Jessica Horvath
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