Una utile riflessione dell’Unione Matematica Italiana sull’uso dei modelli (compresi quelli forestali).
Nei giorni scorsi nei media abbiamo assistito ad un attacco senza mezzi termini all’uso dei modelli matematici nelle azioni di contrasto all’epidemia in corso. Pubblichiamo un comunicato dell’UMI (Unione Matematica Italiana) che risponde ad alcune delle critiche e fake news.
There is an open position at Forest Research (research agency of the Forestry Commission, UK) in Roslin, Scotland. Deadline is Sunday 28th June 2020 at 11:55 pm (GMT +1).
Nicholas C Coops, Joseph J Landsberg e Richard H Waring hanno vinto l’edizione 2020 del premio internazionale Marcus Wallenberg, per aver sviluppato un modello matematico per la previsione della crescita delle foreste al variare delle condizioni climatiche.
There is an open postdoctoral position (30 months) at the Environmental Research and Innovation Department (ERIN) of Luxembourg institute of science and technology in Belvaux.
Il nuovo libro di Annikki Mäkelä e Harry T. Valentine “Models of Tree and Stand Dynamics” guida il lettore (giovani ricercatori e senior scientists) attraverso i modelli forestali (process-based) approfondendo i fenomeni che regolano crescita ed evoluzione dei popolamenti forestali, fino alla gestione e ai suoi effetti sui popolamenti stessi. Si tratta di un testo che anche i non-matematici possono comprendere e interiorizzare. Al termine di ogni capitolo vengono inoltre presentati e spiegati diversi esercizi per cui è consigliato l’uso di R.
There’s an open PostDoc position at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The position will focus on modeling vegetation dynamics within Arctic ecosystems, and model the impact of climate and disturbance on Arctic shrub distributions and feedbacks to climate change.
The Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich is one of the largest and most renowned universities in Germany. The Department of Geography invites applications (full-time) for Research Scientist position (m/f/d) for vegetation-climate interactions Tasks The chair for Physical Geography and Land Use Systems carries out fundamental and applied research on...
Berkeley Lab’s Climate & Ecosystems Division has an opening for a NGEE-Arctic Vegetation Modeling Postdoctoral Scholar. We seek a postdoctoral scholar to model the impact of climate and disturbance on Arctic shrub distributions and feedbacks to climate change. You will be part of a team at Berkeley Lab working on...
This position is based on research within the LOEWE consortium VeWA, specifically subproject C2. In this project, the role of dynamic vegetation changes in the climate system should be explored with a coupled vegetation-climate model, in particular to advance our understanding of polar amplification. Simulated climate...
The Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA) at George Mason University is expecting to hire a post-doc to start in May or June 2020 to conduct land surface and coupled land-atmosphere model evaluation and validation as part of the development of the Unified Forecast System (UFS; https://ufscommunity.org/). UFS...
The envisaged work includes forest modelling with the Carbon Budget Model (CBM-CFS, as adapted to the EU context) aimed at verifying GHG inventories of EU countries, supporting the implementation of EU forest/climate policies, exploring scenarios of forest mitigation potential in the EU, and publishing in scientific journals
The Terrestrial Ecosystems Ecology Laboratory at the University of Montana (http://www.cfc.umt.edu/research/biogeochemistry/) invites applications for Postdoctoral Research Associate in the area of Ecosystem Ecology and Biogeochemistry. We are especially interested in applicants who have experience using both experimental and synthetic (modeling) approaches to address important ecological questions. The successful...
Current process-based vegetation models are complex scientific tools that require proper evaluation of the different processes included in the models to prove that the models can be used to integrate our understanding of forest ecosystems and project climate change impacts on forests. The PROFOUND database (PROFOUND DB) described here aims to bring together data from a wide range of data sources to evaluate vegetation models and simulate climate impacts at the forest stand scale.
Summary You will develop approaches to describe the direct and lagged effects of climate on the terrestrial carbon cycle, informed by decades of remote sensing observations and state of the art machine learning methods. Project background Large-scale climate variations, e.g. El Nino, can have immediate effects...
The Department of Statistical Sciences and the School of the Environment in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time (51% Statistical Sciences, 49% School of the Environment) tenure stream position in the area of statistical methods for environmental science. The appointment will be at the rank of Assistant Professor and will commence on July 1, 2020 or shortly thereafter.
The University of Virginia College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Department of Environmental Sciences invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Hydroclimatology. We seek candidates who are passionate about research and teaching in a world-class institution. The position in hydroclimatology bridges atmospheric sciences and hydrology, two core areas of our department. This research area focuses on interactions between weather and climate and the hydrological cycle over regional to global scales.
We at Penn State have currently two positions (Assistant Research Professor & Postdoc) advertised in our group working on greenhouse gas fluxes and transport in North America. The ideal candidate would have some experience in atmospheric modeling in addition to a good understanding of the carbon...
Dear colleagues, As part of a co-funded FRQ – FNRS project ‘Forest in an uncertain context: comparison of contrasting risk management strategies at the local and regional levels’, we offer a 34-month postdoctoral position focusing on forest dynamics modeling. Could you please distribute the announcement here...
Post-Doc 3 years: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-mathematik-informatik-und-naturwissenschaften/13-10-19-492.pdf Post-Doc Heisenberg project, 3 years: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-mathematik-informatik-und-naturwissenschaften/13-10-19-493.pdf PhD student, 3 years: https://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliches-personal/fakultaet-mathematik-informatik-und-naturwissenschaften/30-09-19-489-en.pdf
The Forest Ecology Group at ETH Zurich is offering a postdoctoral fellowship to work on one or several of the following topics: aboveground-belowground linkages and the long-term sustainability of forest management; structural model uncertainty at the stand and/or landscape scale; non-linear responses to drivers of environmental...