We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher to collaborate in a multi-investigator study to determine what ecological and environmental factors make a species more or less likely to become conservation reliant due to environmental change. The study involves researchers from the Institute for Wildlife Studies (B. Hudgens), Duke University (W. Morris), North Carolina State University (N. Haddad), Virginia Tech University (J. Walters) and Point Blue Conservation Science (L. Stenzel). The postdoctoral researcher will be responsible for establishing and managing demographic studies on amphibians and butterflies at multiple locations along the West Coast, and for working with all collaborating investigators to meet project reporting requirements. The project is funded by the Strategic Environmen