Dear colleague, Please find below a job announcement in the area of spatial uncertainty analysis applied to hydrological modelling (a PostDoc position for three years). Text: Do you like (or do you know someone who likes): o Amsterdam o Geostatistics o Spatial Uncertainty Analysis o Hydrological Modelling o A Position As A Post-Doc Researcher then please read on. At the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, we currently have a vacancy for a Post-Doc researcher on the project ?HarmoniRiB: Harmonised Techniques and Representative River Basin Data for Assessment and Use of Uncertainty Information in Integrated Water Management?. The aim of this project, which is funded by the European Union and in which ten institutes from various European countries collaborate, is to establish a practical methodology for handling uncertainty in integrated water management plans. These plans are being implemented in the new EU Water Framework Directive, which is a legal instrument that will have a profound effect on how water is managed in Europe over the next 25 years. The specific role of IBED in this project is to develop, implement and (help) apply methods to assess uncertainty and uncertainty propagation in data and models used in integrated water management. Important scientific challenges are that the methods must account for temporal and spatial correlations in data and models and must handle the influence of scale effects. Important practical challenges are that the tools built must be practical, easy-to-use by the non-expert and must become fully operational within the project time frame. More information about the project can be obtained from Gerard Heuvelink (g.b.m.heuvelink at science.uva.nl, telephone (+)31 20 5257448, see also http://www.frw.uva.nl/soil/Welcome.html). We seek candidates that have (nearly) finished a PhD in the natural sciences, preferably in the Earth and Environmental Sciences, (Applied) Mathematics or Statistics. Clearly, expertise in geostatistics, GIS and hydrological modelling and a solid publication record are an advantage. The person we seek loves to work with equations and loves to put them into computer code, but must at the same time find much motivation and inspiration from applying mathematics to real world problems. The project lasts three years and will commence before the end of this year. The annual salary will be in the range EUR 35,000 to EUR 42,000. Applications (letter and curriculum vitae) must arrive BEFORE 1 SEPTEMBER 2002. Please send your application to: Dr. Gerard B.M. Heuvelink IBED-Physical Geography Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Achtergracht 166 1018 WV Amsterdam THE NETHERLANDS Application through E-mail or FAX is also accepted: g.b.m.heuvelink at science.uva.nl / (+)31 20 5257431 -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._