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Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

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Postdoc, Modeling invertebrate responses to restoration and global warming — INRAE (France)

Posted: 
Friday, March 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment) seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join the EcoFlowS team of the RiverLy research unit. The position is part of the RhônEco programme, a long-term interdisciplinary research program designed to monitor, assess and anticipate the effects of the ecological restoration of the Rhône. It constitutes an ecological observatory for the river, which adapts to the changing socio-environmental context, in order to take better account of new types of ecological restoration (e.g. sediment recharge of the main channel) and the effects of global change to help manage the river and its floodplains.

Assistant Research Scientist, Large River Ecology — Illinois Natural History Survey

Posted: 
Friday, March 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

The Illinois Natural History Survey is seeking an Assistant Research Scientist with a broad background in large river ecology and experimental design to synthesize diverse existing data and identify important data gaps in space or topic area within the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) from Pool 14 to Pool 25 and develop potential approaches for addressing these data gaps. INHS is part of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which is centrally located between Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis.

WORKSHOP: The Photograph as Data — University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Posted: 
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Thursday, April 11, 2024

Why should scientists engage with photography? Can we consider research photographs as works of art or visual culture? This theory-and-practice workshop focuses on the many relationships between photography, research, truth, and data, particularly in the ecological sciences. Given that many components of ecological systems are only made visible through looking at images of their remains, or through examining aerial data maps or other computations, the photograph has become an important framing device and catalyst for scientific practices. In the workshop, participants will discuss their research practices, examine some key photographs that have been central to histories of scientific research, and hear about contemporary artists who are taking up ecology and visualization in their work.

Postdoc — Texas Research Institute for Aquatic and Groundwater Ecology (TRIAGE), Texas State University

Posted: 
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

The Schwalb Stream Ecology Lab at Texas State University in San Marcos is looking to fill a post-doctoral researcher position who will join a large, multi-disciplinary, and highly collaborative group of researchers working on a large-scale project of the Texas Research Institute for Aquatic and Groundwater Ecology (TRIAGE): “Riverine communities and ecosystem responses to a changing world” funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center. 

Research Technician Position in Freshwater Ecology — The Ohio State University

Posted: 
Thursday, February 22, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

One full-time position for a research assistant is available in the Aquatic Ecology Lab at The Ohio State University. The Research Technician will work on the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) and Ohio Department of Natural Resources – Division of Wildlife (ODNR-DOW) funded Lake Erie Plankton Abundance Study (LEPAS). LEPAS has been monitoring phytoplankton and zooplankton in Lake Erie since 1995.

Post-baccalaureate Opportunity, Woods To Water Program — University of Alabama

Posted: 
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

The University of Alabama is recruiting 10 recent graduates for an NSF-sponsored training program in field ecology. The Woods to Water (W2W) project is an experience-based learning program aimed at helping early career scientists understand critical linkages between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The W2W program will provide a year-long immersive, cohort- and field-based program in standardized methods and data science, with the first cohort starting May 2024.

Postdoctoral Researcher, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Health — Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Posted: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, June 3, 2024

The Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Group within the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks a postdoctoral researcher with an understanding of aquatic biology and chemistry, with a specific focus on contaminant behavior and bioaccumulation in freshwater systems. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an interdisciplinary team of environmental scientists at ORNL to understand the chemical and ecological factors controlling mercury methylation and bioaccumulation in contaminated aquatic systems and will develop experimental designs aimed at mitigating methylmercury bioaccumulation.

Stream Monitoring (Multiple Positions) — Institute for Natural Resources

Posted: 
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, May 31, 2024

The Institute for Natural Resources (INR) in Portland, Oregon, an independent research institute, is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to implement its Aquatic Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy, targeted at collecting standardized data from streams across BLM Districts in the western U.S. INR is hiring multiple positions to conduct this work for the Aquatic AIM Program. Potential candidates looking to assist in this effort with INR and the BLM will work helping assess the health of BLM lands on crews consisting of one crew lead and one field technician working in California; or one crew leader, one technician, and one botanist working in Oregon.

Two REU Positions in Stream Ecosystem Ecology — Kent State University

Posted: 
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Saturday, March 30, 2024

The Costello Lab at Kent State University is inviting applications for a 10-week summer research experience for undergraduates. These positions are part of the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) program. Students will study how the ecology of flowing water ecosystems is influenced by water chemistry. Two successful applicants will join the team of researchers in the Costello Lab exploring the causes and consequences of trace metal and nutrient limitation on stream communities and ecosystems.

Field Technician — EDR

Posted: 
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

EDR is seeking versatile, team-oriented candidates to join our Environmental Services group. Field Technicians will have an academic background and/or limited experience in wetland/stream delineations and other relevant natural resource topics such as plant and avian identification. EDR is a multi-disciplinary environmental consulting and design firm that has been in business for over 40 years. This position represents a career opportunity with one of the leading environmental permitting consultants for renewable energy projects in the Eastern United States.

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