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Postdoctoral Scholar with Wildfire Resilience Initiative in Dept of Geography
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- The Department of Geography, at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks a qualified candidate for a post-doctoral research position with a primary focus on wildfire fuels, fire behavior and management within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI).
- Qualified applicants must have an interest in wildfire related research, preferably with training in remote sensing, geographic information science, spatial statistical modeling, and fire ecology.
- The qualified candidate will work with a multidisciplinary team that is integrating remote sensing, GIS, laboratory studies of plant flammability properties, climate patterns, fire weather and the social, economic and demographic aspects of risk to improve community resilience in the presence of wildfire.
- The qualified candidate will concentrate on improved measures of wildfire fuels, and hazard in the WUI, but is also expected to contribute to integration of broader team efforts.
- The candidate will work closely with UCSB PIs Dr. Dar Roberts and Dr. Max Moritz, working with spaceborne, airborne and drone-based imagery, plant water balance metrics, and other relevant geospatial data layers, primarily focusing on Santa Barbara County.
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