Postdoctoral Fellowships

CIGLR administers a competitive Postdoctoral Fellowship program that provides salary and research support for Postdoctoral Fellows to work closely with a CIGLR Regional Consortium University Partner and a CIGLR or GLERL scientist on a project of mutual interest. Through an annual call for proposals, CIGLR provides 1 year of funding ($48,000 + 25% fringe) for up to 2 post-doctoral fellows per year. Priority will be given to proposals that provide matching funds, and to projects that foster interaction with CIGLR’s Private Sector Partners, collaborating NOAA programs, or Supporting Initiatives. Interested postdocs should contact a University Partner Principal Investigator to develop a proposal.

We seek to use these fellowships to increase diversity in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and math), and thus, strongly encourage proposals to support postdoctoral scholars who identify with groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in government and academic workforces.

 

2020 Program Announcement – deadline November 29, 2019

CIGLR Postdocs at the All Partners Meeting. (L-R) Drs. Tian Guo, Thomas Evans, Freya Rowland, and Qianqian Liu. Photo Credit: Michele Wensman.
Currently, CIGLR Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jordan Matley (University of Windsor) and the Lake Erie walleye research team are using autonomous underwater vehicles (Slocum gliders) to understand the influence of environmental factors such as harmful algal blooms, dissolved oxygen, and temperature on walleye movements and migrations. Photo Credit: GLIER.
Dr. Yuanyuan Jia (CIGLR Postdoctoral Fellow) is completing her postdoctoral fellowship research at the Ohio State University (OSU) School of Earth Sciences, working with Dr. C.K. Shum at OSU and Dr. Philip Chu at NOAA GLERL. During her 2-year fellowship, she is investigating the use of satellite data to complement the Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) and improve the forecast reliability of the Great Lakes Operational Forecasting System (GLOFS). Yuanyuan received her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Geodetic Sciences from the Ohio State University.
CIGLR Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Kevin Meyer completes Diel HABs sampling during a bloom event. He is collecting water samples, using Niskin Bottles, in Lake Erie to study the diurnal migration of Microcystis within the water column. Photo Credit: NOAA GLERL.
CIGLR Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Thomas M. Evans. Photo Credit: Thomas M. Evans.
(L-R) Tony Weinke (GVSU technician) and Dr. Qianqian Liu (CIGLR Postdoctoral Associate) work together to prepare mooring lines for deploying acoustic Doppler current profilers in Muskegon Lake. Photo Credit: GVSU.
Our Great Lakes Summer Fellows toured Michigan labs as well as the central campus! They discussed / learned more about HABs, Biodiversity, Soils, & Ecotoxicology and saw more of the beautiful Michigan campus! And, CIGLR's Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Kevin Meyer gave the group a behind the scenes tour of the lab he works in. Photo Credit: Aubrey Lashaway.

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Current Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Anahita Farahani

University of Michigan
farahani@umich.edu

Tian Guo

University of Michigan-CIGLR
tianguo@umich.edu

Yi Hong

University of Michigan-CIGLR
yhon@umich.edu 

Yuanyuan Jia

Ohio State University
jia.102@osu.edu

Matthew Jurjonas

The Nature Conservancy
matthew.jurjonas@gmail.com

Yuchun Lin

University of Michigan-CIGLR
yuchlin@umich.edu

Timothy Maguire

University of Michigan-CIGLR
maguiret@umich.edu

Nathaniel Marshall

University of Michigan-CIGLR

Jordan Matley

University of Windsor
jmatley@uwindsor.ca

Asmita Murumkar

Ohio State University 
murumkar.1@osu.edu

David Wright

University of Michigan
dmwright@umich.edu

Past Postdoctoral Research Fellows