[LTER-All-lter] SESYNC, LTER Invite Applications for Postdoctoral Fellows & Collaborating Mentors

[Robert Waide]

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        *From:* Melissa Andreychek <mandreychek at SESYNC.ORG
        <mailto:mandreychek at SESYNC.ORG>>
        *Date:* September 6, 2015 at 17:33:57 EDT
        *To:* <AESS at LISTSERV.URSINUS.EDU <mailto:AESS at LISTSERV.URSINUS.EDU>>
        *Subject:* *[AESS_LIST] SESYNC, LTER Invite Applications for
        Postdoctoral Fellows & Collaborating Mentors*
        *Reply-To:* Melissa Andreychek <mandreychek at SESYNC.ORG
        <mailto:mandreychek at SESYNC.ORG>>

        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.

        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.

        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.

        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.

        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.

        *MORE INFORMATION*

        Click here for information on SESYNC–LTER Postdoctoral
        Fellowships:
        http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-postdocs
        <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=>


        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.

        Click here for information on SESYNC–LTER Collaborating Mentors:
        http://www.sesync.org/opportunities/sesync-lter-collaborating-mentors
        <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=>


        Applications for Collaborating Mentors are accepted on a rolling
        basis but no later than October 26, 2015 for inclusion in the
        Mentor Registry.

        *QUESTIONS? *

        Email: postdoc.application at sesync.org
        <mailto:postdoc.application at sesync.org>

        /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 www.sesync.org
        <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.sesync.org&d=AwMF-g&c=1QsCMERiq7JOmEnKpsSyjg&r=9Qrq-EYMx_UJabwAE2ehhw&m=6933S8cNsXaTCgVJgrCc1DwNGxD7mfCeLKttn-3qH6w&s=4r55MDDNFwDllW1yWEa5zLpokesIQZLd2Dgqx7toxHM&e=>
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