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SESYNC Feedbacks
News from the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center
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Research Highlight: New review of literature finds forest restoration and expansion may not improve water yields
Improving water quality and quantity is sometimes cited as motivation for restoring and expanding forest cover, especially in the tropics. But a new systematic review of literature finds that most studies show a reduction in water yield in response to forest restoration and expansion.
The study was a collaborative effort led by Associate Research Professor Solange Filoso at the University of Maryland's Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), and several researchers from SESYNC, including SESYNC Director Margaret Palmer, Kate Weiss, computational research assistant, and Maíra Ometto Bezzera, a graduate research assistant at SESYNC and UMCES.
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The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) is pleased to  welcome Dr. Carrie Hritz as our new Associate Director of Research. Carrie joins us from the Census Bureau where she was the Branch Chief of Partnership Communication and Outreach working with tribal, state, and local governments as well as other federal agencies. Before the Census Bureau, Carrie was an AAAS fellow placed in the Geosciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation working in International and Interdisciplinary funding initiatives.
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SESYNC is pleased to welcome new Postdoctoral Fellows!
Dr. Bianca Lopez recently finished her Ph.D. in Ecology at the University of North Carolina.
SESYNC Project: Benefits of urban green spaces
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Dr. Billy Hall recently finished his Ph.D. in Global and Sociocultural Studies at
Florida International University.
SESYNC Project: Long-Term Socio-
Environmental Dynamics of Urban Segregation
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Dr. Nate Jones has a Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech.
SESYNC Project:
Hydrologic Connectivity in Wetland Dominated Headwater Catchments
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Dr. Maia Call recently finished her Ph.D. in
Georgraphy at the University of North Carolina.
SESYNC Project:
Climate, migration and gender in Asia: Unexplored Intersections
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Dr. Chris Field received his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut's Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department in 2016.
SESYNC Project: Integrating social, ecological, and evolutionary factors to improve understanding of tidal marsh ecosystem responses to sea-level rise.
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunities
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SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 2018
Pre-screening Application Deadline: October 27, 2017
SESYNC invites applications from early career scholars for two-year postdoctoral fellowships that begin August 2018. Each fellow works with a
Collaborating Mentor
of their choosing that extends the fellow's current network of collaborators; the mentor may be affiliated with any organization or institution.
Fellows are in residence at SESYNC full-time but are provided travel funds to interact with their mentor and attend conferences.
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Become a Collaborating Mentor
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Collaborating Mentors for 2018 Postdoctoral Fellows
Application Deadline for Mentor Registry: October 27, 2017
SESYNC seeks Collaborating
Mentors interested in mentoring incoming SESYNC Postdoctoral Fellows and co-developing socio-environmental synthesis research
projects with th
em. The mentor may be affiliated with any organization or institution.
We welcome mentors from universities, NGOs, government agencies,
and other research institutions.
This is an ideal opportunity for collaborations across disciplines, as our competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship programs receive applications from scholars across the social, natural, and computational sciences.
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Propose a Pursuit or Workshop
Deadline: October 13, 2017
SESYNC
requests proposals for collaborative and interdisciplinary team-based research projects under two programs: Pursuits and Workshops.
Teams applying as a Pursuit are invited to apply under the following three Themes:
We recognize that there are many potential projects with great applicability to socio-environmental problems that fall outside of these three Themes. Accordingly, SESYNC offers a limited number of opportunities for exciting and creative Pursuits that are not explicitly tied to a Theme (i.e., socio-environmental problem-focused). We are particularly interested in projects that address the following topics: S-E systems modeling; environmental and social implications of emerging gene editing technologies; and national ecosystem accounts. Pursuit teams should be comprised of no more than 15 members who will meet at our Center in Annapolis for three to four meetings of approximately three to five days over a period of two years.
Teams interested in applying for a Workshop, a single meeting of up to ~25 participants, may focus on a broad topic or a set of related topics relevant to socio-environmental synthesis. Workshop applications are not required to fall under a Theme.
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SESYNC Seeks Two Faculty Research Scientists
Two Faculty Research Positions: Agent-based Modeling & System Dynamical Modeling
Deadline: October 02, 2017
SESYNC seeks two Assistant Research Scientists
, one with expertise in agent based modeling
, and the other with expertise in system dynamical modeling
. These are two-year research faculty positions through the University of Maryland. Effort in each will be equally divided between conducting independent synthesis research and contributing to SESYNC's programs and activities. The incumbents will have freedom and responsibility to design and conduct their own independent research program, applying ABM or system dynamics approaches to understand aspects of sustainability and address pressing problems in socio-environmental systems.
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