We seek a Postdoctoral Fellow II in Quantitative/Spatial Ecology in the Utah State University Department of Wildland Resources. This is a two-year National Science Foundation-funded position to investigate spatial scale-explicit distribution modeling for North American birds. The overarching goals of the project are to identify the spatial scales at which environmental parameters influence species’ distributions (so-called scales-of-effect), and discover potential ecological or biological mechanisms that generate intra- and inter-specific variation in scales-of-effect. The successful candidate will use data from the eBird platform to estimate the species-environment relationships of North American birds using multi-scale, scale-explicit techniques. The specific focus of...

The Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Utah State University (USU), together with the USU Ecology Center, invites applications for a position as non-tenure-track Professional Practice Assistant Professor in Statistical Consulting, beginning January 1, 2025.   This position allocates half time to providing statistical consulting to the Ecology Center and half time to teaching and advising graduate students in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (MAST).  Teaching for MAST will consist of (a) two senior/graduate-level applied statistics courses each year, ideally with ecology-related context and examples, and (b) graduate advising for MS Statistics students.  We anticipate that this 9-month position will include an additional...

The Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University is seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow I to assist a team of researchers to better understand how fire might impact erosion and debris flows, including impacts to transportation corridors. The Postdoctoral Fellow will mainly assist by predicting fire severity to improve post-wildfire sedimentation risk models. The position is intended to be for one year, with renewal for a second year contingent on performance and funding.