Our research team has four positions available: Three Postdocs and a Research Support Specialist ("RA") for social-ecological assessment of green infrastructure.
Our interdisciplinary, social-ecological research team is
pleased to announce the availability of four research positions to assist with
a project entitled, "Environment, Health, and Poverty: is Green
Infrastructure a Universal Good?"
We use green
infrastructure to investigate the relationships between environment, health,
and poverty in cities. Improved scientific knowledge is required to support
better use of green infrastructure in light of the needs and constraints in
underserved neighborhoods. To support this goal, the project identifies three
objectives: 1) to document the biophysical environment and social context of
existing and proposed green infrastructure projects in Baltimore, MD, where we
have a long history of research and engagement, and which is home to significant
underserved populations; 2) to understand how residents, particularly those in
underserved neighborhoods, perceive and relate to existing and potential green
infrastructure projects; and 3) to evaluate how sustainability plans in various
cities conceive of green infrastructure and its relationship to social
processes. Our research is intended to support a civic outcome of improved and
more equitable use of green infrastructure.
A brief
overview of the currently available positions and links to the formal, detailed
advertisements with equal opportunity statements, are below.
Three Postdoctoral Associates Sought.
We will
employ three postdoctoral associates,
one for each of the three objectives:
- Post Doc I: Postdoctoral Research Associate -Spatial Context of Green Infrastructure in an Urban Landscape (AJL ID# 833942), housed at UC Davis (https://grad.ucdavis.edu/postdoctoral/job-listings);
- Post Doc II: Social Perceptions of Green Infrastructure in Baltimore Neighborhoods (http://bit.ly/2CzpShm); and
- Post Doc III: Document Analysis of the Sustainability or Other Relevant Plans of Baltimore and 15 Additional Cities (http://bit.ly/2CAya96). Post Docs II and III will be housed at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook NY. All will occasionally travel to Baltimore as part of the project.
A Research Support Specialist:
We are
currently seeking the first of several Research
Support Specialists to assist with Objective III, and this person will be
housed at either the Cary Institute in Millbrook, or The New School University
in New York City (http://bit.ly/2CzW58A.)
Join our Team
The senior
research team consists of Joshua Ginsberg, Steward Pickett, Emma Rosi, and
Shannon LaDeau at the Cary Institute, Timon McPhearson at the Cary Institute
and the New School University, Mary Cadenasso at the University of California
Davis, Peter Groffman at the Advanced Science Research Center of the City
University of New York, and Morgan Grove at the USDA Forest Service.
Posted by Steward Pickett
