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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b>From:</b>
Melissa Andreychek <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:mandreychek@SESYNC.ORG">mandreychek@SESYNC.ORG</a>><br>
<b>Date:</b> September 6, 2015 at 17:33:57 EDT<br>
<b>To:</b> <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<b>Subject:</b> <b>[AESS_LIST] SESYNC, LTER
Invite Applications for Postdoctoral Fellows
& Collaborating Mentors</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> Melissa Andreychek <<a
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href="mailto:mandreychek@SESYNC.ORG"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mandreychek@SESYNC.ORG">mandreychek@SESYNC.ORG</a></a>></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The National
Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC),
in collaboration with the National Science
Foundation's Long Term Ecological Research
(LTER) program, invites applications for
two-year postdoctoral fellowships that will
begin August 1, 2016. SESYNC and LTER also
invite applications for Collaborating Mentors,
who will co-develop postdoctoral projects and
provide substantive intellectual and
methodological mentoring during the fellowship.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Synthesis is a research
approach that brings together existing but
disparate data, methods, theories, and tools in
new and perhaps unexpected ways to reveal
relationships or to generate novel insights.
Synthesis is a highly varied effort, and its
definition will change depending upon the lens
of those who undertake it. However, in all
cases, synthesis is a means for accelerating
scientific understanding that is applicable
across multiple places and scales.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Synthesis of long-term data
sets, ongoing experiments, and model results is
an important goal of NSF's LTER program. These
syntheses can provide new research findings,
derived data sets, and new models that establish
future research directions and inform the
development of environmental policy. The current
LTER projects collect long-term data in five
core areas, and these are among the topics ripe
for data discovery, analysis, visualization, and
synthesis. A key element of successful
postdoctoral fellowship applications will be the
identification of specific research questions
and synthesis-based methods for addressing them
with these data. Applications should identify
the sources and accessibility of existing data
and the theoretical and analytical methods to be
used. Prospective fellows should not propose
projects that require collection of new data.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">These synthesis fellowships
will engage and assist early-career
investigators in the use and analysis of
existing long-term data and in advanced
computational methods to ask new questions and
initiate new research collaborations. Fellows
will identify long-term datasets that form the
foundation for these syntheses. These must
involve LTER data, but applicants are encouraged
to include long-term data collected for projects
outside of the LTER network as well. Proposed
projects can focus on ecological or
interdisciplinary questions. All types of
projects may be proposed; interdisciplinary
projects that synthesize natural and social
science data would be most in line with SESYNC's
mission.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The postdoctoral fellows will
be located at SESYNC in Annapolis, Maryland,
where they will have access to a full range of
sophisticated analytical, modeling, and
visualization tools. Each synthesis fellow will
work with a SESYNC facilitator and
cyberinfrastructure specialists to identify the
data and tools needed to address proposed
synthesis questions. Applicants should have
experience analyzing datasets and some
familiarity with the use of contemporary
statistical software. SESYNC offers substantial
computational support and training opportunities
for fellows. Therefore, successful applicants
need not have experience in all of the technical
aspects of their analyses.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>MORE INFORMATION</b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Click here for information on
SESYNC–LTER Postdoctoral Fellowships: <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sesync.org_opportunities_sesync-2Dlter-2Dpostdocs&d=AwMF-g&c=1QsCMERiq7JOmEnKpsSyjg&r=9Qrq-EYMx_UJabwAE2ehhw&m=6933S8cNsXaTCgVJgrCc1DwNGxD7mfCeLKttn-3qH6w&s=vmqpzkWhDUx5yjGW1b3Cf4xBVdn5fJr2ti7OJ33b7bk&e="><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-postdocs">http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-postdocs</a></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Interested applicants must
first submit a pre-screening application,
accepted on a rolling basis but no later than
October 26, 2015. Final fellowship applications
must be submitted by December 7, 2015.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Click here for information on
SESYNC–LTER Collaborating Mentors: <a
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href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sesync.org_opportunities_sesync-2Dlter-2Dcollaborating-2Dmentors&d=AwMF-g&c=1QsCMERiq7JOmEnKpsSyjg&r=9Qrq-EYMx_UJabwAE2ehhw&m=6933S8cNsXaTCgVJgrCc1DwNGxD7mfCeLKttn-3qH6w&s=Z3YjbzGczFfpSRZnk_ckgx5VOrgwWjp0CbB9g9Ys4Nw&e="><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-collaborating-mentors">http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-collaborating-mentors</a></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Applications for
Collaborating Mentors are accepted on a rolling
basis but no later than October 26, 2015 for
inclusion in the Mentor Registry.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>QUESTIONS? </b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Email: <a
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href="mailto:postdoc.application@sesync.org"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:postdoc.application@sesync.org">postdoc.application@sesync.org</a></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>The National
Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, funded
through an award to the University of Maryland
from the National Science Foundation, is a
research center dedicated to accelerating
scientific discovery at the interface of human
and ecological systems. Visit us online at <a
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and follow us on Twitter @SESYNC.</i></p>
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