Research Scientist Positions (2)

The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (Center) is hiring two senior scientists to support the Center's mission to provide integrated threat assessment technologies, information, and protocols so that forest managers can anticipate potential severe disturbances and act to prevent or mitigate their effects.

USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station

Asheville, North Carolina

Deadline: 2006/08/01

Both scientist positions serve complementary roles and will work closely with Center staff and collaborators, including experts from other disciplines.  One scientist will serve as the Center's lead expert in landscape ecology and spatial analysis.  The scientist will be asked to develop and apply principles of landscape ecology and spatial analysis to forest health monitoring systems and related assessments. Such work includes identification, development, and testing of spatial metrics that are related to ecological processes at multiple spatial scales. This position will be filled as an Ecologist or Research Forester.  Complete information is found in Vacancy Announcements EAZ-040-2006G (for federal employees only) and EAZ-040-D-2006.

A second scientist will serve as the lead expert on forest insects and pathogens.  As such, they will develop and apply knowledge of pest species and pathogens, their hosts, and the environment to predict, detect, and assess the risk posed to forests by these organisms.  Such work will include the development of ecological or epidemiological models that integrate models of insects and disease with forest dynamics to produce spatially explicit projections of hazard and risk.  This position will be filled as an Ecologist, Research Entomologist, or Research Plant Pathologist, depending on the applicant's background and experience.  Vacancy Announcements EAZ-040-2006G and EAZ-039-D-2006 fully describe this position.

Complete position announcements and instructions for applying can be found on the USAJOBS website at http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/.  Search on the vacancy announcements identified above.

The positions will be located at the headquarters of the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) in Asheville, NC.  Applicants must be willing to relocate to the Asheville, NC, area.

Applicants must be U.S. citizens.

USDA is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

For more information, see http://www.usajobs.opm.gov.

For more information, visit: http://www.usajobs.opm.gov