Postdoctoral Investigator in Plankton Ecology and Trophic Dynamics

Job Summary A Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) position is available in the Biology Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) to study environmental impacts on plankton food webs and trophic dynamics in the Northwest Atlantic ocean ecosystem. The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary research program focused on understanding how physical oceanographic variability influences plankton communities and the transfer of energy to higher trophic levels, including forage fish, marine mammals, and endangered North Atlantic right whales. The projects integrate long-term observations, ocean observing systems, statistical analyses, and ecosystem modeling to improve understanding and prediction of ecosystem variability across seasonal to decadal time scales.…