Research Biological Scientist

This is an outreach notification to solicit interest in the position, which is for a Research Biological Scientist working for the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service.

The scientist plans and conducts research on the biotic, abiotic, and socioeconomic factors influencing the many goods and services offered by the longleaf pine ecosystem. The scientist develops these studies across the range of longleaf pine, focusing on ecosystem goods and services related to the understory and its pine-dominated overstory. Potential avenues of fruitful research may include community assembly, invasion ecology, natural and anthropogenic disturbances, management impacts on restoration, fire and fire effects, carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling, vegetation-water relations, and modeling, amongst other possibilities. The work should address basic and applied questions concerning the complex relationships in longleaf pine-dominated systems between the under- and overstory, community dynamics, natural disturbances (especially fire), stand management practices, human communities and societal needs, and landscape dynamics.

If you are interested in the position, please send an email to Don.C.Bragg@usda.gov to be placed on a contact list, so when the position is posted for recruitment in the coming weeks, I can notify you that the job posting is open. You will need to then go into USAJOBS to officially apply for the position.

 

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