Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

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Watershed Health Monitoring Environmental Specialist 1 (2 positions) — Washington State Department of Ecology

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, May 20, 2024

The Environmental Assessment Program within the Department of Ecology is looking to fill two Watershed Health Monitoring Environmental Specialist 1 positions for the Summer 2024 field season. In this role, you will conduct environmental sampling and support the Watershed Health Monitoring field leads by assisting in the organization of day-to-day data collection activities in the field. You will also aid in training the environmental technicians involved in this project. Some of the key work activities include: hiking, field navigation, biological monitoring, water quality sampling, habitat surveys, and using different types of monitoring equipment. The information that you collect will help assess the condition of streams and watersheds.

Aquatic Biologist I Post-fire Aquatic Ecology (2) — National Council for Air and Stream Improvement

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Aquatic Biologist I, Post-fire Aquatic Ecology (two 4-month positions), needed to conduct aquatic ecology surveys on public and private forest lands. Duties include backpack electrofishing, collection of macroinvertebrate and periphyton samples, habitat surveys, and working closely with primary investigators.

Stream & River Research Technician — Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, April 19, 2024

The Stream Ecology lab at the Illinois Natural History Survey is seeking up to 7 research technicians to conduct bioassessments of aquatic life in streams and rivers in Illinois. Research technicians will work on a crew of 2 – 5 people assisting Stream Ecologists with field surveys. Field responsibilities include conducting fish surveys in wadeable streams and non-wadeable rivers, collecting macroinvertebrate samples, conducting habitat assessments, and water chemistry testing. When not in the field, research technicians conduct laboratory work including data entry, aging fish, macroinvertebrate sorting, and assistance with current research projects.

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.

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.

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