[Pollinator] Fwd: Postdoctoral position in Pollinator Ecology at Penn State

[Kelly Rourke]

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From: Christina M. Grozinger <cmgrozinger at psu.edu>
Date: Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:10 AM
Subject: Postdoctoral position in Pollinator Ecology at Penn State
To: Kelly Rourke <kr at pollinator.org>, IUSSI Sec. Treasurer <
iussi.nas at gmail.com>


Link to Job on Job Website: https://psu.jobs/job/84238
Job Title: Pollinator Ecology Postdoctoral Scholar, Research Associate
Department: Entomology

Announce Start Date: 11/16/2018
Please submit applications by Dec 20, 2018 for full consideration

Penn State’s Department of Entomology and Center for Pollinator Research
seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar, Research Associate to contribute to a
USDA-NIFA-AFRI and Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research funded
project to model the effect of land use pattern, environmental conditions,
and management practices on honey bee and wild bee health. The selected
Associate will work with collaborators who are developing longitudinal data
sets of honey bee colony weight (obtained from automated scales), parasite
levels, overwintering survival, as well as wild bee abundance and
diversity, and will have the opportunity to develop new data sets through
field studies and/or citizen science partnerships. The Associate will also
work closely with collaborators at University of Minnesota’s Institute on
the Environment and with a software company designing a decision support
tool. Responsibilities include quantifying landscape-level variation in
land management practices and environmental conditions and evaluating how
these impact managed and wild bee health metrics, in the context of
different bee management practices. We envision that the Postdoc will
develop process-based or statistical modeling approaches that integrate
landscape and bee management practice that can inform a decision support
tool that the research team is developing for beekeepers and wild bee
conservationists. Applicants are required to have a Ph.D. or equivalent
doctorate in an appropriate field and be able to provide evidence that all
requirements have been met for completion of the Ph.D. prior to the
effective date of hire. The candidate should have excellent written and
oral communication skills, the ability to collaborate with and coordinate
the efforts of a large team of researchers from different institutions, and
a track record of publishing his/her work in scientific journals and
presenting to broad audiences. The candidate should also have strong
quantitative and computational skills, knowledge of spatial datasets and
competence in R, Matlab, python or similar statistical and modeling
languages. Experience with multivariate modeling, machine learning, and
time series modeling is also desirable. It is preferred, but not essential
that the candidate have experience with managed and/or wild bee ecology and
preference will be given to candidates with a Ph.D. in Entomology, Ecology,
or related field. Candidates should submit their applications by December
20, 2018 for full consideration. Applications, including cover letter, CV,
and contact information for three references, should be submitted. Review
of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position
is filled. The position will begin in February 2019. This is a fixed term
appointment, funded for one one-year from date of hire, with excellent
possibility of refunding. For more information, please contact Christina
Grozinger, Distinguished Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center
for Pollinator Research, Penn State University, cmg25 at psu.edu.


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