Postdoctoral Position: Hawaiian arthropod diversity and community metabarcoding, UC Berkeley We are seeking a postdoctoral scholar to conduct research for NSF- and DoD-funded projects that aim to link signatures of arthropod diversity obtained from DNA metabarcoding, across the Hawaiian Islands with broad scale remote sensing. The postdoc will focus on high-throughput arthropod biodiversity sequencing across two orthogonal gradients set within the same native forest type - the first gradient is a geological chronosequence, from 0-5 million years; the second, intersecting, gradient is a landscape matrix from native to heavily invaded forest habitats on each island. Whole arthropod communities are sampled using genetic signatures from the high-throughput sequencing to test models of community assembly over extended ecological-to-evolutionary time; the models will predict trajectories of assembly and disassembly in the face of rapid biotic change. The lab's study the ecology and evolution of Hawaiian arthropods in the context of the assembly of communities through evolutionary time, and the impact of non-native species. Recent work involves collaboration with researchers working with vegetation monitoring, and geospatial and remote sensing data. The person will be based in the joint laboratory of Professors Rosemary Gillespie and George Roderick (see https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/evolab). Funding is available for two years, beginning as soon as possible. Please send inquiries and applications to Rosemary Gillespie at gillespie@berkeley.edu or George Roderick Applications (link https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05219) should include a cover letter describing your research interests, a CV, and names of three references. Rosemary G Gillespie (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)