Vacancy 2: Ecosystem Biogeochemist

UTEP’s CyberShARE Center of Excellence (website under development at (http://cybershare.utep.edu/) includes several environmental science sub projects. One of these is focused on establishing an eddy covariance and micrometeorological tower in the northern Chihuahuan Desert at the USDA Jornada Experimental Range, which hosts the Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) program. The successful candidate will:

1.  Assist in the establishment of an Eddy tower and micrometeorological observing system that align to specifications outlined by Ameriflux and the developing National Ecological Network (NEON).
2. With graduate students, establish a semi-autonomous robotic tram system and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to sample hyperspectral reflectance adjacent to the instrument tower/s outlined above.
3. Develop a vegetation monitoring program that includes variables needed to best explain and scale ecosystem processes from the leaf to the landscape level.
4. With personnel in the CyberShARE Center, develop novel data processing, analysis and dissemination tools.

Candidates are expected to have a background in micrometeorology, hydrology and/or plant physiology, and technical expertise with eddy covariance-based heat, water, and carbon flux measurement equipment. Applicants with experience in programming, data management, modeling, remote sensing and scaling flux and other ecosystem processes over multiple spatial and temporal scales are strongly encouraged to apply. The candidate for this position will be establishing a new disciplinary field for the lab and are expected to play a key role in the submission of proposals to advance this line of work. This position will be based in El Paso, Texas and require frequent travel to our field site on the Jornada Experimental Range, approximately 1.5 hours away.

For more information about work conditions and the application process for this position please see our vacancies section.