The Alaska Climate Adaptation
Science Center (AK CASC) and
the University of Alaska Fairbanks
(UAF) seek early career researchers
interested in wildland fire and climate
change. We are searching for a scientist
interested in boreal wildfire dynamics
and natural resource management in
Alaska including delivering actionable
science that meets the needs of
wildland fire managers from a regional
to national scale.
The postdoctoral fellow will join a
national cohort as part of the national
and regional Climate Adaptation
Postdoctoral Fellows (CAPF) Program. The fellow will lead a regionally focused
research project, join the other regional
fellows from across the country on
national-scale synthesis work, and
participate in a series of training and
professional development opportunities.
The prospective fellow will have considerable
latitude in developing a research plan that
matches their expertise and interests with
the needs of Alaska’s fire management
community. Through existing research-
management collaborations, the AK CASC
has identified three primary lenses to focus
the efforts of the prospective researcher:
• the role of fire in shaping and transforming
a wide range of fire future scenarios
• better describing the nature of future fire
hazard in Alaska
• fire behavior in transformed landscapes under
future extreme weather and climate scenarios
More details including a full
position announcement and further
information on researh priority
areas can be found in the position
advertisement available on the AK
CASC and IARC web pages.
This is a two-year position based at
the International Arctic Research
Center (IARC) at UAF that will be
jointly supervised and mentored
by Dr. Scott Rupp at UAF and
Dr. Jeremy Littell with the US
Geological Survey at the AK CASC in
Anchorage, Alaska.
Applications can be submitted