Jobs:Job-01211

Postdoc: Hydrologic modeling at the University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming, Wyoming, United States
Apply before: 30 May 2023

Posting: Position: Postdoc position Apply before: 30 May 2023 Apply online: https://tinyurl.com/343b3nwk

The Departments of Ecosystem Science and Management and Botany at the University of Wyoming are searching for a postdoctoral scholar for work on hydrologic modeling in the snow-dominated region of northwestern Wyoming. The position will be part of UW’s most recent Track 1 EPSCoR grant, WY-ACT (Wyoming Anticipating Climate Transitions). This project seeks to help Wyoming stakeholders and communities anticipate and prepare for changing water availability. The 5-year grant will support creation of integrative models showing the cascading effects of changed water availability through socio-environmental systems with implications for hydrology, ecology, economics, and dependent human communities.

Essential Duties:
The postdoc will work on distributed ecohydrologic modeling at various spatial scales in the greater Yellowstone region. The work will primarily focus on modeling of water resources (e.g., streamflow, evapotranspiration) at small watershed to regional scales for current conditions and future climate scenarios. The appointment can also include field data collection in the region (e.g., streamflow, snow, soil moisture, and evapotranspiration). Assessment of groundwater resources is of great interest and, depending on the chosen model, could involve the coupling of a surface water model with a groundwater model such as MODFLOW. The postdoc is further expected to collaborate with other researchers in the project, such as atmospheric scientists for downscaled climate change scenarios, terrestrial and aquatic ecologists, but also economists and social scientists for coproduction work that is part of the project. The postdoc is further expected to help mentor graduate students working on related questions. Data collection and analysis of hydrologic data (streamflow, snow observations, eddy covariance data) will be overseen by the postdoc. The postdoc will work closely with Drs. Fabian Nippgen, Ginger Paige, David Williams, and Brent Ewers.

For more information about this position and how to apply: https://tinyurl.com/343b3nwk

For questions, please contact Fabian Nippgen (fnippgen@uwyo.edu).

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Of interest for:

Hydrology Focus Research Group