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Post Doctoral Associate Position Available. Soil and Water Science Department, IFAS Start date: Approx. March 1, 2011 A 12-month Post Doctoral Associate position is available to analyze and write up existing soil, plant, and water quality data collected from a large multi-year and multi-site project in the Suwannee River Basin. This project involved monitoring best management practices on row crop, dairy, and poultry farms and modeling crop yield and nutrient leaching from the row crop site using the DSSAT model. Candidates should have experience working with large data sets of soil-nitrogen species data, monitoring well data, lysimeter N leaching data, plant nutrient content, and crop yield data. Experience in farm-scale crop/water quality modeling and nutrient mass balance is needed. The successful candidate will use original data sets and project reports to analyze data, conduct modeling studies, write peer-reviewed journal papers about nutrient mass balance and effectiveness of BMPs, and prepare presentations on the results. If interested, please prepare a letter of application describing relative experience, resume, and 2 examples of any research papers written by the applicant. Please send application materials by email by 5:00 PM February 25 to George Hochmuth at [log in to unmask] (preferred method): Or send to: George Hochmuth Soil and Water Science Department 106 Newell Hall University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 352-392-1803 X 318 ___________________________________________________ "It is the water, folks, it is the water.......... If we teach them how to manage irrigation, then they will be able to manage fertilizer." George J. Hochmuth Professor of Soil & Water Science | Soil Fertility & Plant Nutrition | email [log in to unmask] 106 Newell Hall, PO Box 110510 Gainesville, FL 32611-0510 Office: 352-392-1803 X318 Cell: 352-283-9133 ********** NOTICE ********* This IFAS-ANNOUNCE-L list is for UF/IFAS business-related announcements that may be of general interest to all IFAS faculty and staff. Subscription to this list is optional. To leave the list and cease getting list messages, send a message mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following command in the body of the message: Unsubscribe IFAS-ANNOUNCE-L To add yourself to the list, send a message mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following command in the body of the message: Subscribe IFAS-ANNOUNCE-L