Two postdoc positions now available with the Great Lakes Integrated Sciences and Assessment (GLISA) Center (http://www.graham.umich.edu/research/climate/risa.php)
Funded by the NOAA Climate Program Office's Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessment (RISA) program
Send CV and letter of interest to Don Scavia at scavia@umich.edu
GLISA Program Manager/Research Fellow:
- Work with Principal Investigators and Advisory Committees to develop and refine the ongoing research agenda
- Develop an active personal research agenda to support, complement, and expand the goals of the RISA
- Coordinate internal competition process –soliciting, reviewing, and selecting projects
- Establish and implement monitoring and evaluation metrics for individual projects progress and completion (interim reports, final reports, outputs and outcomes, etc.)
- Coordinate and maintain core project activities in support of the PIs and Co-PIs, including periodical and mandatory meetings to foster interdisciplinarity, educational goals (graduate student and postdoc training and workshops) and stakeholder-driven activities (workshops, etc).
- Facilitate information exchange among researchers and stakeholders
- Coordinate publicity with outreach personnel and projects
- Coordinate Stakeholder, Scientific, and Ad hoc Advisory Committees
- Be the public face of the research initiative in the stakeholder community; the MSU, U-M, and OSU campuses; and the broader research community
Regional Assessment Services Research Fellow
- Work with Principal Investigators (PIs) and lead investigators to develop, refine and implement the ongoing research agenda related to understanding the network of stakeholders and effectively engaging with them.
- Assist in the supervision and mentoring the work of graduate research assistants working in the projects funded with supplemental funds.
- Develop an active personal research agenda to support, complement and expand the goals of the RISA.
- Coordinate with the project manager to insure effective and efficient coordination between core activities and activities funded by the expanded activities supported with supplemental funds. Support core initiatives when necessary.
- Work with the project manager, PIs and lead investigators to establish and implement monitoring and evaluation metrics of the progress and completion of projects supported with supplemental funds (interim reports, final reports, outputs and outcomes, etc.).
Andrew J. Hoffman
Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise
The University of Michigan
701 Tappan Street, R4472
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone: 734.763.9455
Fax: 734.764.2555
Email: ajhoff@umich.edu
Web: http://www.andrewhoffman.net/
Just released: Builder's Apprentice: A Memoir (Huron River Press, April 2010).
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/ajhoff/memoir.html