A fellowship at the postdoctoral level is
currently available at the UC-wide Institute for the Study of
Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts (http://nrs.ucop.edu/job.htm).
This fellowship is focused on ecohydrology or ecosystem
ecology as it relates to water availability in California.
Applicants are encouraged to contact prospective
mentors at UC campuses which may include but are not limited to the
following.
Steven Allison
The Allison lab uses experimental and theoretical approaches to analyze
biogeochemical processes driven by microbes. This project will examine
microbial responses to changes in water availability along climate
gradients, in field manipulations, or with modeling approaches. The
specific project will be matched to the interests of the postdoctoral
applicant.
Elliott
Campbell -
Todd
Dawson
-
Ulrike Seibt
We seek to understand coast redwood uptake of CO
2 and water
with
respect to fog variability. This project will combine an
unprecedented
air sampling approach with regional land-air model analysis.
Postdoctoral applicants will be invited to join field and/or modeling
work that matches their interests and experience.
Michael
Loik
Michael Loik's research team uses experimental approaches to quantify
ecosystem processes driven by soil water availability. The ISEECI
Fellow will examine plant diversity and ecosystem responses to changes
in water availability in field manipulations along statewide climate
gradients.
Josh Schimel
Schimel’s work focuses on the effect of
drought and
drying/rewetting cycles on soil microbial and C-cycling processes in
California grasslands and chaparral. The work incorporates a) field
level experiments that vary plant inputs and soil moisture, b)
laboratory experiments analyzing the mechanisms regulating soil
response to drought, and c) simulation modeling to try to bridge from
the mechanistic to the ecosystem scale.
Synergistic studies by other ISEECI faculty:
Barry
Sinervo is currently conducting studies in Coastal Fog communities
near Santa Cruz, examining local population extinctions in reptiles and
amphibians due to climate warming and the ongoing drought. Sinervo
applies ecophysiological models to study climate impacts on plant and
animal taxa in diverse communities in California and across the globe.