[Jpjobs] Fwd: Job Announcement: SRS-2013-1

[Meredith White]

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From: Valerie Young <vyoung at bigelow.org>
Date: Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM
Subject: Job Announcement: SRS-2013-1
To: Staff <staff at bigelow.org>


*Two Principal Investigator Positions
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
*
Bigelow Laboratory invites applications for two Senior Research Scientist
positions associated with the three centers of research in the Laboratory’s
new Ocean Science and Education Campus.  The targeted research areas for
these positions are:  1) *Blue Biotechnology* (e.g. synthetic biology,
systems biology, biofuels, marine natural products, marine phycology,
marine mycology); 2) *Ocean Biogeochemistry and Climate Change *(e.g.
global scale modeling, ocean observing, controls on the ocean biological
pump [past, present and future], stable isotope biogeochemistry,
environmental radiochemistry); and 3) *Ocean Health* (e.g. predator-prey
interactions,  microbial signaling, quorum sensing, plankton physiology,
and chemical ecology of marine microbes).  Cross-cutting themes for these
positions include human impacts, foundations of marine food webs, and
climate change.  The research at Bigelow Laboratory has global geographical
reach, from the tropics to the poles.

Bigelow Laboratory has unique capabilities and core facilities for
transformative research in marine microbial studies.  Candidates should
plan to make use of the facilities in their future work (which can be
further explored at the Laboratory’s website (www.bigelow.org)): the
Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Marine Algae and Microbiota
(NCMA<https://ncma.bigelow.org/>;
formerly CCMP); the J.J. MacIsacc Facility for Aquatic
Cytometry<http://www.bigelow.org/research/facilities/flow_cytometry/>;
the Single Cell Genomics Center
(SCGC<http://www.bigelow.org/research/facilities/single_cell_genomics_center/>);
Bigelow Analytical
Services<http://www.bigelow.org/research/facilities/analytical-services/>;
an indoor, multi-tank mesocosm facility; a confocal and electron microscopy
facility<http://www.bigelow.org/research/facilities/transmission_and_scanning_electron_microscope_fa/>;
and a high-performance computing system. Bigelow Laboratory’s new
$32-million Ocean Campus <http://bigeloweastboothbycampus.blogspot.com/> is
situated on a 64-acre deepwater site in East Boothbay, Maine.

Successful candidates are expected to lead transformative, translational,
cross disciplinary research, examples of which include, but are not limited
to: a) bioprospecting from the Laboratory’s NCMA and SCGC biological
collections for novel natural products and biofuels; b) using ocean
observing and mesocosm assets to elucidate the impacts of climate change on
biogeochemical cycles; c) better understanding of the oceanic biological
processes using high-throughput molecular "-omics" tools; d) development of
more accurate models to predict environmental change in the ocean,
constrained by ongoing ocean observing and -omics data sets; and e) use of
model organisms to understand interactions among marine microbes.

Minimum requirements are a Ph.D. with two years of postdoctoral experience
and the capability to acquire external funding and lead scientific
programs.  Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences is a primarily soft money
institution with the expectation that the PI will generate external funding
and be an active participant in the Laboratory’s institutionally-funded
teaching through Colby College and the NSF REU program, technology transfer
activities, and administrative activities associated with Laboratory
governance.   Salary and start-up packages are negotiable.  Bigelow
Laboratory for Ocean Sciences provides a generous benefits package
including family medical and dental and pension/403c retirement plan.
Applicants should consult the laboratory’s strategic
plan<http://www.bigelow.org/about-bigelow-laboratory/governance_administration/general_publications/>
.

Applicants should send a cover letter describing which position they are
applying for and why.  They should also include their CV, a research plan,
list of relevant teaching experience, plus contact information for three
references to jobs at bigelow.org.  Please reference Job # SRS-2013-1 in the
subject line.  All applications will be acknowledged upon receipt.  For
full consideration, the application should be received by 25 October 2013.
The search will continue until the positions are filled but the goal is to
have these positions filled by summer 2014.  Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean
Sciences is an equal opportunity employer/affirmative action institution.


-- 
Valerie Young
Executive Assistant
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380
East Boothbay, Maine 04544
Tel: (207) 315-2567, ext.107
vyoung at bigelow.org



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Meredith M. White
Postdoctoral Researcher

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
60 Bigelow Drive
PO Box 380
East Boothbay, ME 04544

Office:  207-315-2567 ext. 520
Cell: 978-985-9841
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