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Open postdoctoral research position: integrated watershed modeling
University of Kansas, Kansas, United States
Start reviewing process: 16 January 2020
Start reviewing process: 16 January 2020
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Position: PostDoc position
Start reviewing process: 16 January 2020
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The University of Kansas in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy is excited to announce a postdoctoral research opportunity to harmonize a set of existing process-based watershed models for intensively managed agricultural watersheds. Watershed models are common tools to characterize water quality responses to changes in land use and land management yet are often so heavily parameterized that their application is not extendible to nearby regions with similar yet not identical characteristics. Numerous watershed models of subbasins of the Mississippi River exist yet remain of limited value towards a larger regional analysis due to the lack of consistent parameterization or architecture. Although there are larger regional models, decision units are often too large to resolve the scales at which land management decisions are made especially for applications which require extensive model executions, such as cost-benefit analyses. The focus of the research for this postdoctoral project will be to develop the intellectual and model base needed to create parsimonious models of the Mississippi River basin that can inform regional response plans to predicted patterns of climate and land use change. The postdoctoral researcher will work with existing Soil Water and Assessment Tool (SWAT) watershed models to; harmonize model structure and parametrization, incorporate additional aquatic biogeochemical processes into the SWAT source code and to identify regional differences in parameterization and sensitivity across the models. This postdoctoral position is located at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, a mid-size college town located on the banks of the Kansas River. The position is expected to begin February 2020 and last for one year with the potential for extension. The postdoctoral researcher will report to Dr. Amy Hansen and be affiliated with the Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering Department at the University of Kansas. Review of applications will be begin January 16, 2020 at which date the position will close. To apply, submit requested application materials at (http://www.employment.ku.edu/staff/16106BR). Applications must be submitted through this link in order to be considered.
Of interest for: Hydrology Focus Research Group
