A research opportunity is available at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Research and Development (ORD), Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment (CPHEA), Pacific Ecological Systems Division (PESD) in Corvallis, Oregon. The mentor for this project is Dr. Ryan Hill (hill.ryan@epa.gov) at the EPA’s Pacific Ecological Systems Division.
Apply here: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/EPA-ORD-CPHEA-PESD-2023-02
This research opportunity with EPA will leverage recently developed geospatial methods and datasets (Leibowitz et al. 2023; https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00057-w) to hydrologically link several million existing and potentially-restorable wetlands to upslope nutrient sources and downstream waters. Specifically, this research will bring together EPA and other federal geospatial datasets of existing wetlands, potentially-restorable wetlands (https://rb.gy/bd0), stream and/or lake network hydrology (StreamCat/LakeCat), and landscape nutrient inventories into a connected framework that will allow for optimization of wetland restoration scenarios within several million watersheds of the conterminous US.
Application Deadline: 8/4/2023. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling-basis and this posting could close before the deadline.