Dear List members your assistance with finding someone to fill the
following position would be gratefully appreciated.
Post Doctoral Ecologist/Microbiologist/Soil Scientist–GS-11
(promotion potential GS12)
Available Until filled
Location : USDA-ARS, J. Phil Campbell, Sr., Natural Resources
Conservation Center, Watkinsville, GA
Duties: Incumbent will investigate soil biology\ecology relationships
as part of a multi-disciplinary team developing sustainable cotton
cropping systems based on strategies that reduce nutrient and pesticide
inputs and improve soil quality. Research will focus on complex
interactions among environmental conditions, vegetation, soils, and pest
management effects on below ground ecology. Incumbents responsibilities
include: evaluate winter cover crop influences on specific groups of
macro- and micro-fauna, fungi, and bacteria important for reducing
nematode damage to reduce insecticide inputs; investigate interactions
among soil macro- and micro-fauna, and microbial populations and soil
physical, chemical, and biological properties important for improving
soil quality; and determine positive and negative effects of soil biota
on soil structure, nutrient cycling, and plant health. Components of
the investigation include whole community analyses, as well as studies
of specific biotic groups, functions, and activities that impact soil
processes such as residue decomposition and organic matter turnover.
Research is conducted on farmer fields, in replicated field plots,
greenhouse and laboratory facilities. Studies will utilize classical
biological and microbiological techniques as well as new biochemical and
molecular methods to detect differences in soil biota populations caused
by soil management.
Specific Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Broad professional knowledge of the scientific theories and principles
which underlie, soil biology, soil ecology, and soil microbiology as
they apply to agroecosystems with an emphasis on ecological
interactions among bacteria, fungi, macro- and meso-fauna and plant
influences on community structure
Advanced knowledge of ecological, biological, and microbiological
methods, procedures and techniques which are generally applied to soil
biology studies.
Skill in appropriate statistical approaches for soil biology/ecology
studies.
Ability to interpret complex relations among soil biological components
and develop scientifically defensible conclusions.
Contact: Harry H. Schomberg, 706-769-5631 x 222, hschomberg@ag.gov
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