Post Doctoral

• 503212
• Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
• Post Doctoral
• Post Doctoral
• Closing at: Jul 31 2026 - 23:55 MDT

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Department Contact: Hatim Geli, 575-646-1640, ***email_hidden***

Internal or External Search: External - Open to all applicants

Advertising Summary: Post Doc to: Create new CLM parametrization with improved water and carbon fluxes for NM Top 500 forested watersheds, including soil moisture, streamflow, sediment load, and groundwater recharge.

Position Details

Position Title: Post Doctoral

College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col

Department: 302000-ANIMAL AND RANGE SCIENCES

Location: Las Cruces

Offsite Location (if applicable)

Target Hourly/Salary Rate: Commensurate with qualifications

Appointment Full-time Equivalency: 1.0

FLSA Status: Exempt

Bargaining Unit Announcement: This is NOT a bargaining unit position with American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees (AFSCME).

Contingent Upon Funding: Contingent upon external funding

Standard Work Schedule: Standard (M-F, 8-5)

If Not a Standard Work Schedule

Job Duties and Responsibilities: Develop a process-based model to upscale tower flux data to watersheds with the main goal of improving our understanding of the feedback between forests in dryland ecosystems and the combined effects of climate change and management impacts. This will be achieved by 1) using CLM to upscale tower observations to the watershed and improve model representations of dryland ecosystems, including forested watersheds; and 2) integrating historic forest management into improved dynamic vegetation models to evaluate impacts on watershed structure and function. CLM, coupled with ParFlow, will be used to evaluate water and carbon fluxes over the dominant watersheds by a) improving the representation of land surface heterogeneity, including fractional cover, woody canopy structure, and LAI to account for the phenological cycle; b) developing a dryland-specific plant functional type; c) develop a scenario based analysis to examine watershed responses to forest management and natural hazard. The analysis may also examine other simple hydrologic models, such as HEC-HMS and SWAT. Deliverables: New CLM parametrization with improved water and carbon fluxes for NM Top 500 forested watersheds, including soil moisture, streamflow, sediment load, and groundwater recharge.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

Equivalent Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Required PhD degree in hydrology, Earth Sceince, or related discipline, knowledge about land surface modeling specifically Community Land Model (CLM), programing skills using python, bash, and R, ability to use cloud computing tools such as GEE, ability to use both Windows and Linux systems

Special Certification/Licensure

Working Conditions and Physical Effort

Environment: Work involves moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises.

Physical Effort: Light physical effort. Effort applies to no more than two (2) hours per day.

Lifting Requirements: Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 10 pounds or some standing or walking.

Risk: Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.

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Special Instructions to Applicants

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