Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

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Ph.D. Assistantship: Wetland Biodiversity & Climate Sensitivity — University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Posted: 
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

A Ph.D. Graduate Research Assistantship is available at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to help understand the resiliency of wetland biodiversity (including plants, insects, and herpetofauna) to climate change in the Midwestern United States. The main task is to estimate species' climate sensitivity using occurrence records, climate data layers, trait data, and other available information. These scores can enable conservation status updates, biodiversity resiliency mapping, and novel wetland bioassessments across the region, and may trigger deeper research on select species.

2 Postdoctoral Researchers (Ecologists) (m/f/d) — Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung

Posted: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Sunday, September 15, 2024

The Department of River Ecology and Conservation at Senckenberg in cooperation with the Faculty of Biology at the University of Duisburg-Essen jointly invite applications for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers (Ecologists) (m/f/d) (full time or part-time (at least 75%); 2 years with option for extension). We are looking for enthusiastic ecologists (m/f/d) with a background in community ecology, macroecology, metacommunities, and/or analysis of ecological time series. The applicant should have a strong track record of scientific publications.

Funded Ecosystem Ecology MSc or PhD position — Virginia Tech

Posted: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Dr. Erin Hotchkiss (Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech) is seeking applicants for one funded Ecosystem Ecology M.Sc. or Ph.D. student with a start date of August 2025. The new student will contribute to a collaborative research project led by Dr. William Hopkins and Dr. Erin Hotchkiss that was recently selected for funding: "Integrating organismal biology and biogeochemistry to develop science-informed actions to conserve stream biodiversity in a changing climate".

MS assistantship prairie streams — Wyoming Cooperative Research Unit

Posted: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, September 30, 2024

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. 

Senior Engineer (Stormwater) — City of Raleigh

Posted: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, September 9, 2024

This position, with a working title of Project Manager will collaborate with Stormwater Division staff, other City departments, consulting engineers, citizens, and stakeholders to help deliver Drainage Assistance (DA) and Capital Improvement (CIP) projects from planning, design, and through construction.  The selected individuals will manage their own projects and provide support to other team members that work within the Drainage Assistance (DA) and Capital Improvement (CIP) Programs. Projects may include underground infrastructure, stormwater control measures, green stormwater infrastructure, channel improvements, dam improvements, and/or streambank stabilization/restoration.

Assistant/Associate Professor, Fisheries Science (Tenure Track) — SUNY-Brockport

Posted: 
Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, September 27, 2024

The Department of Environmental Science and Ecology at SUNY Brockport seeks candidates to fill a tenure-track position at the Assistant/Associate Professor level with specialization in fisheries science. Candidates with research interests in fisheries management, food web interactions, fish movements, or fish population and community dynamics are especially encouraged to apply. Preference will be given to candidates who employ field approaches.

Director, Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring — Dickinson College

Posted: 
Monday, July 29, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Saturday, August 31, 2024

The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is an aquatic community science center at Dickinson College. Since its founding in 1986, ALLARM has become a nationally recognized technical and programmatic support center for community organizations interested in watershed assessment, protection, and restoration. The ALLARM director is responsible for leadership of all Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) activities including overseeing the operation, program development and implementation, engaging ALLARM students in substantive projects, and maintaining ALLARM’s leadership role in community science on statewide, regional, national, and international levels.

Postdoctoral Fellow in Great Lakes Regional Climate Modeling with WRF — University of Michigan, CIGLR

Posted: 
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

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.

Post-doctoral researcher in aquatic ecology — Univ. of Victoria & National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

Posted: 
Monday, July 15, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, December 31, 2024

A postdoctoral position is available to understand the effects of forest watershed stand age and equivalent clearcut area on stream ecosystems throughout Vancouver Island. This research seeks to integrate an ongoing aquatic dataset, including physical (discharge, substrate, canopy cover), chemical (nutrients and dissolved organic carbon), and biological (periphyton, macroinvertebrate, fish) data for which two years of data have been collected, and landscape scale characteristics (determined from landowner information and/or remote sensing).

ORISE Wetland Plant Ecology Fellowship — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Posted: 
Monday, July 15, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Thursday, October 31, 2024

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.

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