Postdoctoral Researcher
Salary Range: $67,000-$79,000 USD per year
Location: Onsite, UC Davis
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Center for Pandemic Insights in the One Health Institute in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis is seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in ecological and environmental drivers of zoonotic virus emergence, transmission and circulation and the development of innovative technology and approaches for transdisciplinary pandemic research. Primary responsibilities relate to informing mechanistic models of virus emergence, characterizing community composition and host ecology at high-risk animal-human interfaces, and developing dynamic models of spillover in complex environments to better understand the pre-emergence phase of pandemics.
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Field Researcher
Salary Range: $62,000-$85,500 USD per year
Location: San Juan Island, WA
Application Deadline: January 9, 2025
Under the direction of the Science Director, SeaDoc Society, UC Davis (072072-VM: Wildlife Health Center), this position provides leadership in organizing, funding, and conducting research associated with killer whales, salmon, and the ecosystem upon which they depend. This includes helping to develop research questions that will provide data to improve management and conservation, helping write grants and assisting with private donation solicitation to fund the work, organizing field operations to collect data and samples, managing data, submitting samples for testing and overseeing interpretation of results, and helping to write and publish peer-reviewed publications.