“This is a data science postdoctoral position with the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab (CWHL). The CWHL is a 10-member laboratory in the Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, New York, USA. The scope of CWHL’s research spans wildlife health issues across North America, and our scientists collaborate with researchers and agency representatives from academic institutions, state and provincial wildlife agencies, and federal natural resource agencies. 

This postdoctoral position will work 100% FTE on the Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease (SOP4CWD) https://cwhl.vet.cornell.edu/project/sop4cwd. The SOP4CWD is multi-year modeling and big data endeavor that leverages traditional and new techniques in data and statistical science to generate data-driven recommendations for surveillance sampling of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in white-tailed deer. The modeling outputs will guide managerial activities aimed to monitor and manage the spread of CWD through deer populations in the eastern US and Canada.”