Jobs:Job-01763
Start reviewing process: 14 January 2025
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Posting:
Position: Post-doc position
Start reviewing process: 14 January 2025
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Regards,
Dorothy Merritts
Bob Walter
Post-doc position in Earth surface processes and data science (up to 3 years)
We have a fully-funded postdoctoral position (up to 3 years) in geomorphology, hydrology, low-temperature geochemistry, and/or restoration science at Franklin and Marshall College to be filled by May or June of 2025. In particular, we seek a candidate with strong data science and modeling skills. This is the 2nd of a pair of post-docs for our research group, with the first hired in paleoecology and carbon cycling in 2024. The postdoc research is part of the Chesapeake Watershed Initiative (CWI; https://www.chesapeakewatershedinitiative.org/home), a research hub in the mid-Atlantic region established by Robert Walter, Dorothy Merritts, Chris Williams, and Patrick Fleming at Franklin and Marshall College with R. K. Mellon Foundation funding in 2021.
The postdoctoral scholar will develop a research project that best aligns with their interests and our overall goals to investigate landscape response to change and improve restoration practice and monitoring through scientific investigation. The postdoc research is associated with a large new restoration project, the Blue-Green Connector (https://lccbgc.org/), located along several km of the Little Conestoga Creek (LCC) in southeastern Pennsylvania and with similar projects in the region completed at different times over the past 15 years. The postdoc will lead efforts to establish a monitoring program along the LCC to evaluate landscape response to removing historic sediment and uncovering buried Holocene wetlands upstream of former Colonial-era millponds. Modeling landscape response to this major change could entail, for example, examining changes in streamflow, hyporheic exchange, sediment transport, or nutrient reduction, among other possibilities. The PIs are committed to supporting the postdoctoral scholar to lead peer-reviewed, high-impact publications.
The postdoctoral position is funded at $65,000/year plus research funds (including for meetings). It includes doing research with students and teaching one upper-level lab course or two seminars each year in the candidate’s area of expertise. The post-doc could teach a course on stream restoration, for example, and use local sites for field trips as part of the lab component. Financial support is available for students to be part of the postdoctoral scholar’s research group. In addition, the postdoctoral scholar and research students have full access to an impressive array of analytical instruments (a list is available on request).
Founded in 1787, F&M is a liberal arts college with small classes and historic strengths in the Earth sciences (among other fields). The Earth and Environment Department has outstanding faculty, students, and facilities. Lancaster is a wonderful small city with outstanding restaurants, markets, and easy train access to Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, and Washington DC. The quality of life is high, with extensive bike trails and sidewalks. Nearby outdoor activities include many hawk watches along Blue Mountain and other Appalachian Mountains, the Chesapeake Bay, the Susquehanna River (some great kayaking), and the Atlantic seashore and dunes.
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"The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)
Dr. Dorothy Merritts (https://www.fandm.edu/directory/dorothy-merritts.html)
The Harry W. & Mary B. Huffnagle Professor of Geoscience
Department of Earth & Environment
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
(717)358-4398 (all voice messages are forwarded to my email)
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Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected in 2022)
Past President, 2018-2020, American Geophysical Union
Earth and Planetary Surface Processes (https://epsp.agu.org/)
