[Biometrics_tws] Sage-grouse modeling positions

[Bailey,Larissa]

Hi all,

I'm posting this announcement for a colleague at Colorado State University:

Due to the tremendous interest and emphasis on sagebrush habitat management and applied sage-grouse population monitoring and modeling, we have an emerging opportunity for one or two recent or pending graduates (post-doc) to join our research team at Colorado State University / USGS Fort Collins. This is not an official announcement, but we are actively searching for potential candidates.

We are looking for individuals with experience with sagebrush obligates - experience with sage-grouse is a great fit, but knowledge of the sagebrush ecosystem and familiarity with other species could prove just as useful. Experience with applied population models, e.g. PVA, demographic models, and/or spatial habitat modeling, would fit nicely with the work we are proposing. We are most interested in individual with good quantitative skills, experience with population and/or habitat modeling and the interest and ability to apply these skills to applied wildlife management and conservation topics.
Without going into details here, our projects are focused on making connections between habitat change (driven by land-use & development, climate, conservation/mitigation, etc.) and population responses in both near and long-term scenarios. Connections to grazing, invasive species, fire, habitat treatments, energy and domestic developments are all important components of the analytic foci. Modeling population responses is essential to these projects, but we also emphasize habitat prioritization and evaluation of factors that predict and drive rangeland conditions in the sagebrush ecosystem.
We have a diverse and expanding group of researchers, and we are strongly committed to maintaining a Team environment, with explicit opportunities to both lead project(s) and actively contribute to others - leading to multiple, semi-related publications. Our team for these projects is partially assembled, and this is chance to join an active team, analyze existing data, make a difference in sagebrush conservation and develop active research collaborations within the sagebrush/sage-grouse community.

Please share this email widely with colleagues and students or graduates who might fit these requirements, or who may know someone who does.  If interested please contact us right away with questions, or for further discussion.

Thanks for your time and assistance.
Cameron Aldridge & Dan Manier

Cameron L. Aldridge
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability,
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University & U.S. Geological Survey,
2150 Centre Avenue, Building C Fort Collins, CO 80526-8118 USA
Voice: 970-226-9433   Mobile: 970-217-6313   Fax:    970-226-9298
cameron.aldridge at colostate.edu<mailto:cameron.aldridge at colostate.edu>
http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/aldridge-lab/

Daniel J. Manier, Ecologist
U.S. Geological Survey, Fort Collins Science Center | Ecosystem Dynamics Branch
Affiliate Faculty, Colorado State University | Ecosystem Science and Sustainability
2150 Center Ave., Building C | Fort Collins, CO  80526-8118
Phone: 970.226.9466 | FAX: 970.226.9298 manierd at usgs.gov<mailto:manierd at usgs.gov>



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