Postdoctoral Associate – Forest Futures Lab/Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative

Postdoctoral associate at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies joining the Western Fire and Forest Resilience Collaborative, which links 12 science teams and boundary spanners to advance predictive fire ecology and ecosystem resilience science for western U.S. land managers, and the Forest Futures Lab. The associate will integrate geospatial and climate data, using AI or statistical frameworks, to determine relationships among climate, fire and vegetation growth across western U.S. grasslands and shrublands, and will develop a grass and shrub module for an existing process-based simulation model.

The full-time position has a one-year initial appointment renewable for a second year, a salary of $74,263 to $85,000 and an anticipated start around January 4, 2027. Questions go to Dr. Winslow Hansen.

PhD in grassland/range ecology, climate science, disturbance ecology or a related field before appointment; expertise in broad-scale geospatial analysis of non-forested western U.S. ecosystems, process-based vegetation modelling and/or coupled climate-vegetation-fire analysis; programming in R, Python or JavaScript. Application: one document with a cover letter (up to two pages), CV and three references.