Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

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Course: Ecology and Systematics of Diatoms, Iowa Lakeside Lab

Posted: 
Friday, January 19, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, May 20, 2024

This course, now in its 61st year, will introduce students to field and laboratory study of freshwater diatoms. We will visit diverse aquatic habitats of the Upper Midwest to make live and fossil collections of most freshwater diatom genera. Students will learn techniques in collection, preparation, and identification of diatoms. Lectures will cover diatom taxonomy, systematics, stream, lake, and wetland ecology, research applications, and bio-geography. Students will assemble individual voucher collections as a means for practicing diatom research and species verification. As a final project, students will complete a taxonomic treatment of a species that will be ready to submit for peer-review to the Diatoms of the North America (diatoms.org).

Graduate Research Assistantship, University of Minnesota & U.S. Geological Survey

Posted: 
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Expiration Date: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

We are recruiting a MS or PhD-level graduate research assistant to start August 2024 to work on developing protocols for use on a portable, rapid environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding tool, the MinION, for use in detecting aquatic invasive plant species in freshwater lakes and rivers. The successful candidate will work as part of a collaborative team to produce protocols for using the MinION device for identifying aquatic invasive plant species, including: identifying metabarcoding markers for approximately 40 aquatic invasive plant species; optimizing the protocols; conducting occupancy modeling for true detection rates; and sharing findings through workshops.

Postdocs at Michigan State University: PFAS biogeochemistry and/or Hg-Se interactions

Posted: 
Friday, October 20, 2023
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

The Watershed Biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene Lab (http://gersonlab.weebly.com) at Michigan State University is recruiting motivated, collaborative, and curious postdoctoral scholars interested in biogeochemistry. We are recruiting for two positions: (1) investigating the fate and cycling of PFAS in surface waters and (2) investigating the impact of Se on Hg microbial methylation and/or accumulation in the base of the food web.

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