Post-doctoral Project Detail

Project Number:

MED-01-06-09-191

Division:

Branch:

Large Lakes & Rivers Forecasting Research Branch

Geographical Location of position:

Grosse Ile, Michigan

Title of Project:

Riverine Water Quality Modeling for Ecosystem Services

Brief Description of Research Project:

EPA's Office of Research and Development is conducting multidisciplinary, integrated research to make critical gains in our understanding of complex environmental problems to aid environmental decision-makers. ORD's Ecological Services Research Program (ESRP) is focusing on the quantification of ecosystem services thru the integration of the airshed, landscapes, and water quality with an array of ecosystem metrics and endpoints. Environmental stressors are multi-scalar and include cropping and intensive animal production practices but also atmospheric deposition and urbanization. The successful candidate serves as a mathematical modeler within a team of interdisciplinary scientists and modelers to interface water quality models with ecosystem services across large spatial scales. Particular emphasis will be on modeling how rivers and streams of the Midwest mediate the delivery of nutrients, sediment, and pesticides from agricultural landscapes to downstream receiving waters, and the ecosystem services that accrue from these processes. The primary scientific objectives are to develop, calibrate, apply, and verify multi-media ecosystem models to characterize the sources, fluxes, in-transit transformations, and disposition of nutrients, sediments, and pesticides within a stressor-response framework. Resulting models must spatially integrate stressors, ecological responses, and ecosystem services and will be used to characterize and valuate ecosystem services inherent in the Upper Midwestern portion of the Mississippi River basin.

High Priority Research Area(s):

Ecosystem Services Research Program Future Midwestern Landscape Study – water quality modeling

Projected duration of appointment (2 or 3 years):

3 years

Educational requirements:

Ph.D. - Environmental Engineering, Ecosystem Modeling, Mathematical Modeling or closely related field

Specialized training and/or experience preferred:

Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics

Scientific Contact/Principal
Investigator(s)*

Name: Russell Kreis
email: kreis.russell@epa.gov
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