Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

The Walters Lab at the University of Wyoming Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit is seeking applications for a funded master’s student (12-month stipend of $2000/month plus benefits & tuition waiver). The student will lead a project to identify threshold responses of stream aquatic assemblages to environmental gradients. The project will include analysis of publicly available stream datasets and field validation across a gradient of sites in Wyoming and Nebraska. 

A postdoctoral fellowship is available for a highly qualified individual to join the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research (CIGLR: https://ciglr.seas.umich.edu/). The successful candidate will work with a team of atmospheric and hydrodynamic modelers at CIGLR and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) to improve our ability to make climate projections for all aspects of the dynamical system in the Great Lakes Region.

United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Pacific Ecological Systems Division in Corvallis, Oregon, has a new post graduate position available through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). Post-masters with a strong research background and post-doctorates are preferred. This effort will explore research questions using national plant datasets collected as part of the National Wetland Condition Assessment (NWCA), which is the nation’s largest and most comprehensive survey of wetland condition and characteristics across the conterminous US.

• Manage special projects as assigned from conception to completion with little oversight.
• Perform all required erosion and sediment, stormwater management and pollution prevention inspections for applicable construction projects.
• Interpret complex plans and drawings.
• Conduct preconstruction meetings and inspect construction sites for compliance with approved plans.
• Ensure compliance with laws and regulations for wetland access, protected species, wood and debris disposal, site control and soil disturbance.