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The Harvard Forest invites applications for a post-doctoral research fellow focused on analysis of forest carbon in New England. The successful candidate will be a member of Jonathan Thompson’s Landscape Ecology Lab and be part of the Harvest Forest Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program. The candidate will work with our existing landscape modeling framework and several large datasets to examine long-term, broad-scale impacts of land use, climate change, invasive insects, and their interactions. Experience with forest models, ecosystem models, carbon accounting, climate mitigation policy, and/or spatial data is required. The candidate should be interested in quantifying opportunities and risks associated with the use of forests in climate change mitigation. The research will build on previous work done in the Thompson Lab, especially the Massachusetts Decarbonization Land Sector Report. While there are some sideboards on the research topics, there is also substantial flexibility regarding the exact specification of questions and methods.

Ph.D. (awarded by start date) in ecology, forestry or a related field; Evidence of strong scholarship, including first-authored peer-reviewed publications; Experience with forest carbon accounting; Proven ability to plan and conduct research projects from beginning to end; Interest in translating and communicating research for land-use policy.

Conducting complex spatial analyses (e.g., GIS, remote sensing, spatial statistics); experience using landscape and/or earth system models (LANDIS-II, CLM); analysis of large datasets (e.g., FIA, PADUS, Census, NWOS); skilled at scripting within the R and/or Python programming languages.

Send Cover letter, CV, PDFs of relevant publications, and the names and contact info for three references to hfapps@fas.harvard.edu with email subject: “Thompson Lab Post Doc Application”. Reference letters will be required for the finalist.

Jonathan Thompson
Harvard Forest
324 North Main Street
Petersham, MA 01366

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