The Center for Tropical Forest Science - Forest Global Earth Observatory (CTFS - ForestGEO) at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute seeks a postdoctoral fellow to join a collaborative research effort to reduce model uncertainty associated with projecting the response of tropical forest ecosystems to global change. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Helene Muller-Landau, Dr. S. Joseph Wright, and Dr. Stuart Davies, to analyze large-scale and long-term datasets on tropical tree demography to relate individual performance to species traits, spatial environmental variation, and temporal climate variation. The planned research is part of NGEE - Tropics, a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional project to improve the representation of tropical forests in Earth System Models.