Academic
Job Category: Faculty Non Bargaining
Job Title: Post-doctoral Fellow: Stream and riparian area ecology
Department: Research | Richardson Lab | Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences | Faculty of Forestry (John Richardson)
Posting End Date: May 31, 2023
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the Posting End Date above.
The position is for one year, with a second year for reappointment pending satisfactory performance. Preferred start date is August 1, 2023 or soon thereafter. Salary $55,000 per year plus benefits.
At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students, and is essential to fostering an outstanding work environment. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career. Candidate must have a willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one’s own. Candidate should demonstrate a commitment to enhancing one’s own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Equity and diversity are essential to academic excellence. An open and diverse community fosters the inclusion of voices that have been underrepresented or discouraged. We encourage applications from members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the B.C. Human Rights Code, including sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority.
To apply, please submit a cover letter and statement of research interest, curriculum vitae, contact details of three referees, examples of your published work, and date of availability addressed to Dr. John Richardson. Review of applications begins June 1, 2023 and will continue until the position is filled. Only those called for interviews will be contacted.
Description
The University of British Columbia invites applications for a Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) in stream and riparian area ecology. The ideal candidate will have expertise with flowing-water ecosystems, especially their ecology and invertebrate biology, and excellent quantitative skills. Expertise should include ecology of streams, particularly invertebrate biology and ecosystem processes, as well as population and community ecology, statistical analysis, and time series analysis. The most qualified applicants will have relevant experience, with demonstrated expertise in ecological processes in streams, and a strong interest in stream and riparian systems, and disturbance.
Project and Responsibilities
The Post-Doctoral Fellow will be based at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences under the supervision of Dr. John Richardson.
The successful candidate will responsible for:
1) working on several projects about variation in stream and riparian invertebrate communities due to land use and annual weather;
2) analysis of several long-term data series from small streams and their riparian areas;
3) writing and dissemination of knowledge in the form of journal articles and conference presentations; and
4) there is a broad scope for developing field-based experimental work associated with ongoing projects in small streams related to land-use and long-term variation.
Travel to our Malcolm Knapp Research Forest will be expected. Funding for conference travel will be provided.
Qualifications and Experience
Applicants must have completed and defended their Ph.D. in Ecology or Freshwater Biology by the start of the appointment. Evidence of strong writing skills are desired, including experience publishing academic journal articles. Previous peer-reviewed scientific publications are highly desirable. Evidence of successful participation in team projects would be helpful.
richardson.forestry.ubc.ca/ scholar.google.ca/citations?hl=en&user=xPsJZQcAAAAJ
