Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosphere-Atmosphere Flux Ecology - [Archived Advertisement]

Research and Development Division

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biosphere-Atmosphere Flux Ecology

Ref 1631/15

• Hawkesbury Campus

• Remuneration Package $79,656 to $96,237

• Full-Time, Fixed-Term Position for 3 Years

An outstanding opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Biosphere-Atmosphere Flux Ecology is available to study responses of ecosystem CO2, CH4 and H2O fluxes to climate variability and ecological disturbance in forest and grassland ecosystems in Australia.

Specific research topics could address the effects of drought, warming, elevated CO2, disturbance or land-use change on ecosystem fluxes, and may apply stable isotopes to study biogeochemical cycling in the context of various manipulative field experiments or environmental gradients. 

The successful applicant will have demonstrated research experience in ecosystem gas exchange, with a desirable focus on eddy covariance and stable isotope techniques. Knowledge of, or willingness to learn and apply, techniques related to biogeochemistry of soil processes is desirable. Willingness to travel to remote sites for occasional measurement campaigns is desirable. The appointee will participate in activities related to the Australian Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and Ozflux, will be supervised by Professor Elise Pendall, and will join the ‘Soil Biology and Genomics’ group at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University.

The Institute conducts research on the impacts of environmental change on terrestrial biota from genes to ecosystems (http://www.westernsydney.edu.au/hie). We offer comprehensive field, controlled-environment and laboratory research facilities and is based on the Hawkesbury campus of UWS in Richmond, close to the city of Sydney. HIE manages the Cumberland Plains SuperSite and eddy covariance flux towers within the Australian Supersite Network and Ozflux facilities of the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN). 

The Institute includes 57 academic staff who are supported by 20 skilled technical and support staff. Web: www.westernsydney.edu.au/hie 

Remuneration Package: Academic Level A $79,656 to $96,237 p.a. (plus Superannuation and Leave Loading)

Position Enquiries: Prof Elise Pendall, (02) 4570 1673 or e.pendall@westernsydney.edu.au 

Closing Date: 27 November 2015.