Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

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Postdoctoral Fellowship — USDA-Agricultural Research Service, Water Quality & Ecology Research Unit

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Saturday, June 1, 2024

The Water Quality & Ecology Research Unit (USDA-ARS) and the US Geological Survey (USGS) Lower Mississippi-Gulf Water Science Center, in association with the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE), are pleased to announce a postdoctoral research opportunity collaborating with a team of ARS/USGS research scientists to examine stream ecosystem structural and functional responses to field and experimental stressor gradients in Lower Mississippi River Basin (LMRB) streams. This competitive postdoctoral opportunity will be located in the Water Quality & Ecology Research Unit at the US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service’s National Sedimentation Laboratory in Oxford, Mississippi.

Postdoc, Great Lakes Benthic Ecology — UWM School of Freshwater Sciences

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, May 10, 2024

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences has been conducting research on nearshore benthic ecology in Lake Michigan for more than two decades. Specific research topics include benthic algae ecology, nutrient cycling by invasive dreissenids, nearshore trophic dynamics, community metabolism, and mechanisms responsible for avian botulism outbreaks. We are searching for a Post-Doctoral Associate who can help further this research through analysis of a large, multidisciplinary data set, augmented with continuing field research.

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.

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.

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.

Aquatic Biology Field Technician — EnviroScience Inc

Posted: 
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, April 30, 2024

EnviroScience is seeking multiple Aquatic Biology Field Technicians to support our Natural Resources team with biological assessments of rivers and streams in the Midwest, Southeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Field Technicians will work as a member of a 4-person crew responsible for using standardized sampling methods to complete the following surveys of wadeable and boatable streams: fish, benthic macroinvertebrates, water quality, and physical habitat.

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.

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