A career with the Forest Service will challenge you to manage and care for more than 193 million acres of our nation's most magnificent lands, conduct research through a network of forest and range experiment stations and the Forest Products Laboratory, and provide assistance to State and private forestry agencies.

DUTIES:
The position is responsible for developing a program of research with two major components: (1) understanding patterns of forest vegetation at broad geographic scales, and (2) translating this ecological information for interdisciplinary applications in landscape analysis, forest and habitat management, anticipation of rapid landscape changes and adaptations to them, and conservation planning. The research approach involves scaling up detailed tree-, species-, and stand-level data collected on field plots to characterize forest composition and structure over larger spatial units: from landscapes or watersheds, to ecoregions or provinces, to larger regions. Performing quantitative and spatial analysis methods to integrate plot data with spatial covariates to characterize ecological patterns and relationships. Objectives are to quantify and spatially predict (map) regional variation in forest composition and structure, and describe how environment and disturbance shape those patterns over a range of scales. Combining quantitative modeling and statistical imputation approaches, including multivariate and non-parametric methods in novel ways. Creating dynamic global vegetation models and remote-sensing time series.

Location: Corvallis, OR
Deadline: July 17, 2013
Contact Name: HRM Contact Center
Contact E-mail: fsjobs@fs.fed.us
Contact Phone: 877-372-7248
Expiration: July 17, 2013
Region(s): Northwest
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