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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Iversen, Colleen M. [<a href="mailto:iversencm@ornl.gov">mailto:iversencm@ornl.gov</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 25, 2015 11:17 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Iversen, Colleen M.<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Opening for a post-doc at SPRUCE, MOFLUX focused on fine roots<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Hi everyone;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">I am looking to hire a post-doc to collaborate with our group on our work linking fine-root dynamics with ecosystem processes in the SPRUCE experiment, and also at the MOFLUX AmeriFlux site. I would be grateful
if you would be willing to forward the attached post-doctoral ad to students or colleagues that you think might be interested (see also description below). I’m happy to answer any questions about the position.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Happy Thanksgiving (or Happy Thursday)!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Colleen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt"><span style="color:#1F497D">Colleen M. Iversen<br>
Staff Scientist<br>
Climate Change Science Institute and <br>
Environmental Sciences Division<br>
Oak Ridge National Laboratory<br>
One Bethel Valley Road, Bldg. 4500N<br>
Oak Ridge TN 37831-6301<br>
Phone: (865) 241-3961<br>
Fax: (865) 574-9501<br>
<a href="mailto:iversencm@ornl.gov"><span style="color:#1F497D">iversencm@ornl.gov</span></a><br>
<a href="http://www.ornl.gov/~ciz/"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://www.ornl.gov/~ciz/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Postdoctoral Research Associate - Linking root traits and ecosystem processes / NB50525061<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Apply at: <a href="https://recruiting.ornl.gov/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9MDA1MDU2QjQzOTc3MUVENUEwQUZDOTg5REQ1NTc0M0ImY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=010&sap-language=EN">
https://recruiting.ornl.gov/sap/bc/webdynpro/sap/hrrcf_a_posting_apply?PARAM=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d1aWQ9MDA1MDU2QjQzOTc3MUVENUEwQUZDOTg5REQ1NTc0M0ImY2FuZF90eXBlPUVYVA%3d%3d&sap-client=010&sap-language=EN#</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Posted Date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">11/02/2015<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">End Posting Date<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">01/04/2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Purpose<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Under general supervision, the incumbent will conduct research within the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program at ORNL. Specific research tasks include woody plant fine-root and rhizosphere responses to
warming and elevated [CO2] at a new climate change experiment in northern Minnesota, as well as linkages among root dynamics and ecosystem carbon and water fluxes in a long-running AmeriFlux site in Missouri. Focused, self-directed research is also expected.
This position resides in the Environmental Sciences Division (ESD) and Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The TES program at ORNL is focused on advancing mechanistic understanding of terrestrial ecosystem processes and applying such advances to terrestrial biosphere models for simulating impacts of climate change.
The group encompasses multiple disciplines spanning experiment, data, model and supercomputing to investigate how critical ecosystems may respond to climate change, and how feedbacks from those responses affect global climate.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The flagship ORNL-TES ‘Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Climatic and Environmental Change’ (SPRUCE) field experiment is located in Marcell, MN at the southern edge of the boreal forest in a high carbon peatland
expected to be particularly vulnerable to projected changes in climate. Ten large, open-topped field chambers have been built within a black spruce – Sphagnum bog ecosystem. Five enclosures are currently being warmed—above- and belowground—in a regression
design (+0 to +9 degrees C), while another five are being warmed in the same regression design, and also exposed to elevated CO2 concentrations (+500 ppm) to facilitate understanding of response thresholds of key mechanisms associated with ecosystem carbon,
water and energy fluxes. Additional information can be found online about the SPRUCE project (<a href="http://mnspruce.ornl.gov">http://mnspruce.ornl.gov</a>) or Climate Change Science Institute (<a href="http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/">http://climatechangescience.ornl.gov/</a>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">The MOFLUX project is also part of the ORNL’s TES program. The MOFLUX site has been in operation since 2004, and is located at the University of Missouri’s Baskett Wildlife Research and Education Area (BWREA)
near Ashland, Missouri. This site is characterized by extremely high levels of biogenic isoprene emission. It also has the longest known continuous observation of tree mortality and predawn leaf water potential of multiple species. The site is located in a
key ecotone between the Eastern Deciduous Forest and Prairie regions and is subject to large inter-annual variation in summer precipitation and drought intensity.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Major Duties/Responsibilities<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Design and lead experiments focused quantifying root and rhizosphere traits, and their response to warming and elevated [CO2] (SPRUCE) and developing relationships among root traits and ecosystem carbon
and water fluxes measured with an eddy covariance system and soil chambers (MOFLUX). Research will involve multiple trips to northern Minnesota and also Missouri throughout the growing season.
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Collaborate with internal DOE and external University researchers to comprehensively assess belowground responses to treatments (SPRUCE experiment).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Develop novel hypotheses and successfully complete self-directed study of plant, soil, or ecosystem level processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Participate in monthly SPRUCE teleconferences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Periodic travel to various conferences for presentation of results and interactions with other researchers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Maintain strong commitment to the implementation and perpetuation of values and ethics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">Qualifications Required<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">A PhD in root ecology, ecosystem ecology, or a closely related field, completed within the last 5 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">An excellent record of productive and creative research demonstrated by publications in peer-reviewed journals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="color:#1F497D">Expertise, as measured through first-author publications and/or major conference presentations focused on root ecology and one or more of the following disciplines: ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry,
peatland or wetland ecology, global change ecology, or ecosystem modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:#1F497D">QUALIFICATIONS DESIRED:</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"> Expertise and experience in minirhizotron data analysis, quantification of root morphology, anatomy, or physiology, soil nutrient dynamics, ecosystem
carbon and water fluxes, ecosystem modeling or an appreciation of data-model interactions are strongly desired.
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