Job ID: 376741
About the Job
The University of Minnesota seeks three postdoctoral researchers to work collaboratively with Drs. John Fieberg, Gretchen Hansen, and Jake Walsh on funded projects examining the ecosystem effects of invasive aquatic plants and their management. Together, the projects will evaluate the benefits, costs, and ecological tradeoffs of invasive aquatic plant treatments and support management decisions under uncertainty.
We seek researchers with strong analytical skills and complementary expertise. Relevant approaches include causal inference, structured decision making, state-space modeling, and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. Applicants are not expected to have expertise in all of these approaches. We will consider how candidates' strengths contribute to a group capable of addressing the projects' shared analytical, ecological, and collaborative needs.
The three researchers will work together, share methods and ecological expertise, and collaborate with managers, practitioners, and other partners. Each will have primary research responsibilities, with opportunities to contribute across projects based on their expertise and interests. The positions offer opportunities for collaborative mentorship across the three faculty labs and the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center.
Work Schedule and Length of Appointment:
The group will address three connected areas:
About the Job
The University of Minnesota seeks three postdoctoral researchers to work collaboratively with Drs. John Fieberg, Gretchen Hansen, and Jake Walsh on funded projects examining the ecosystem effects of invasive aquatic plants and their management. Together, the projects will evaluate the benefits, costs, and ecological tradeoffs of invasive aquatic plant treatments and support management decisions under uncertainty.
We seek researchers with strong analytical skills and complementary expertise. Relevant approaches include causal inference, structured decision making, state-space modeling, and hierarchical Bayesian modeling. Applicants are not expected to have expertise in all of these approaches. We will consider how candidates' strengths contribute to a group capable of addressing the projects' shared analytical, ecological, and collaborative needs.
The three researchers will work together, share methods and ecological expertise, and collaborate with managers, practitioners, and other partners. Each will have primary research responsibilities, with opportunities to contribute across projects based on their expertise and interests. The positions offer opportunities for collaborative mentorship across the three faculty labs and the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center.
Work Schedule and Length of Appointment:
- M-F, 8:00-4:30;
- Anticipated length of appointment will be 1/1/2027 through 12/31/2028.
The group will address three connected areas:
- Causal effects of invasive plants and their management: Develop and apply causal inference methods to estimate ecological effects from observational lake and management data.