Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology in United States

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory (EL) offers a research appointment within a broad environmental science and engineering environment. As one of seven laboratories in USACE-ERDC, EL focuses on solving environmental challenges for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the nation through applied research and development. Participants will work under the guidance of a mentor in a real-world laboratory setting and gain hands-on experience with ...

University of California, Irvine is advertising occasional postdoctoral scholar positions in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology within the Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences . This opening is for researchers interested in work across ecology and evolutionary biology, with appointments sponsored by faculty members in the department. The advert describes a general postdoctoral scholar series rather than a single fixed project, so successful candidates may join ongoing res...

Harvard University invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow in Terrestrial Ecosystem Dynamics in the laboratory of Professor Paul Moorcroft, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The project uses process-based terrestrial biosphere modeling to investigate tropical forest ecosystems. The research will identify and characterize the drivers of differences in how tropical forests in the Amazon and Congo respond to climate variability and climate change. Applicants must ...

A postdoctoral position based in Fort Collins, Colorado, will investigate fire and ungulate ecology in central Utah through a large collaboration involving the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, Colorado State University, the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Brigham Young University, and Dr. Tim Laske. The project will address several questions concerning fire, deer, and elk in a region that has experienced more than five fires over the past 2...

Cornell University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Associate for the Grassland Futures Project. The position will involve collaborating with researchers and conservation organizations to advance the conservation and sustainability of grassland agroecosystems across the North American Great Plains. The opportunity is suited to researchers interested in agriculture, agroecology, environmental science, grassland ecology, conservation, sustainability, and agricultural systems. The post directs applican...

Tarleton State University is inviting applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Biological Sciences at its main campus in Stephenville, Texas, United States. The postdoctoral scholar will contribute to research in quantitative ecology, meta-analysis, statistics, plant ecology, and evolutionary biology. The hosting laboratory studies the evolutionary and functional ecology of plants from basic and applied perspectives, with particular emphasis on how native plants adapt to g...

The Global Ecology group at the Earth Systems Research Center, University of New Hampshire, invites applications for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Durham, United States. The NASA-funded project investigates how terrestrial ecosystem functioning, productivity, carbon uptake and stocks, and resilience respond to climate change, including drought, heatwaves, and other disturbances. It will examine how biodiversity and management mediate these responses across regional to global sca...

The Furey Lab at the University of New Hampshire is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in seabird ecology and quantitative marine science. The position is based at the University of New Hampshire’s Main Campus in Durham, United States. Under the supervision of Nathan Furey, the postdoctoral researcher will investigate seabird ecology through field and laboratory research. Responsibilities include collecting, organizing, analyzing, and tabulating ecological data; conducting da...

The California Institute of Technology’s Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences invites applications for the Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Fellowship in global environmental science, beginning in fall 2027. The fellowship supports innovative early-career researchers whose work addresses major environmental and Earth-system questions. Relevant research areas include climate adaptation and mitigation, environmental microbiology, terrestrial and marine biogeochemistry, glaciology, pa...