Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy (STEP)

We seek an innovative, enthusiastic individual ready to develop new, practical approaches to issues of systematic conservation planning and progress assessment, focusing on Florida. The successful candidate will work closely with Professor David Wilcove in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy. Candidate must demonstrate strong interest in conservation, familiarity with conservation planning literature, and strong collaborative and computational skills, including ability to analyze large spatial datasets. Experience with habitat modeling, GIS, programming, and/or reserve-design algorithms helpful.

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University invite applications for a post-doctoral research appointment to work in the area of quantitative modeling of terrestrial nutrient cycles.

Human responses to climate change could affect biodiversity more severely than changes in climate variables per se. The Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University invites applications for a post-doctoral Research Associate to help examine the impacts of human adaptation to climate change on vulnerable ecosystems and species that may or may not themselves suffer direct climate change impacts. The successful candidate will work with Professors David Wilcove and Michael Oppenheimer, in collaboration with Conservation International, to model how changes in agricultural and ranching practices due to climate change will affect biodiversity in South Africa. Results of this study may inform land use policy in a region of extraordinary biodiversity facing substantial change in climate.

he Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University invites applications for post-doctoral Research Associates to investigate the potential for anthropogenic climate change to cause significant migration of human populations. The research will be conducted under the direction of Professors Alan Krueger and Michael Oppenheimer. An area of particular interest is forecasting the migration response to climate-related changes in agricultural productivity and responses to expectations about both future climate and agriculture.

Applicants should have a strong background in labor economics and econometrics and the capability to analyze large data bases. The project will have ready access to expertise on climate modeling in Princeton’s Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences Program and NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

We seek a post-doctoral researcher in the field of ecology who is interested in studying the impacts of climate change on the ranges of invasive species in North America. The successful candidate will work closely with Professors David Wilcove and Michael Oppenheimer in an interdisciplinary study of this issue. Applicants must have Ph.D. in ecology, conservation biology, or a related field. Experience with the application of climate models to ecological problems, or equivalent experience is essential.

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (WWS) at Princeton University in the field of atmospheric science as applied to problems at the science/policy interface. The candidate’s research interests should be relevant to climate change, regional and global transport of air pollution, or stratospheric ozone depletion. Applicants should have completed a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences and have extensive experience with chemical, dynamical, or climate modeling including the use of large data sets. The successful candidate will join a growing interdisciplinary group that includes atmospheric scientists at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab and the Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program, as well as, economists and political scientists at the WWS working on projects at the interface of atmospheric science and domestic and international policy.

The use of scientific assessment as a formalized process for evaluating knowledge for the specific purpose of informing government decision-making has expanded since the mid-1970s, but how well have these assessments worked? As part of the initial stage of a multi-year collaborative project between University of California, San Diego and The Woodrow Wilson School's Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, we seek two post-doctoral associates to examine the history of scientific assessments of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and its role in sea level rise caused by global warming. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in history of science or a closely related field, and sufficient scientific background to understand the technical issues at stake in the scientific evaluations. The postdocs will work under the joint supervision of Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego, and Michael Oppenheimer, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University.

The use of scientific assessment as a formalized process for evaluating knowledge for the specific purpose of informing government decision-making has expanded since the mid-1970s, but how well have these assessments worked? As part of the initial stage of a multi-year collaborative project between University of California, San Diego and The Woodrow Wilson School's Science, Technology and Environmental Policy Program at Princeton University, we seek a post-doctoral fellow to examine the history of scientific assessments of ozone depletion. The ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in history of science or a closely related field, and sufficient scientific background to understand the technical issues at stake in the scientific evaluations. The fellow will work under the joint supervision of Michael Oppenheimer, Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Geosciences, Princeton University and Naomi Oreskes, University of California, San Diego.

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