Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

RIVER is excited to begin recruiting the next cohort for the RIVER Instructor & Curriculum Professional Development (aka “RIVER Scholars”) Program. This program integrates expert instruction and peer mentoring in virtual and field settings to build instructor capacity to develop and lead safe and effective river-based field lessons and courses. The RIVER Field Studies Network (RIVER) is an NSF Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education framed around connecting rivers, people, and science through immersive field-based education. Two central objectives of the network are to build instructor capacity and create interdisciplinary open-source lesson content to be shared across the network. 

The WilsonLab at Auburn University is currently recruiting for a Postdoctoral Researcher to help us study the ecology of freshwater harmful algal blooms.

The Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis is hiring an Academic Coordinator II who will serve as Deputy Director of the Center. The Center for Watershed Sciences (CWS), a unit of the Institute of the Environment (IE), is a leader in the interdisciplinary study of critical water issues.

The Evolving Meta-Ecosystems (EVOME) Institute is recruiting for four PhD positions at three of its partner institutions: University of Alabama, University of Alaska Fairbanks (2 positions), and University of Connecticut. Students will work with a diverse and highly dynamic group of collaborators and will have the unique experience of spending their summers conducting field work at Toolik Field Station in the Alaskan Arctic. Ideally students would begin in the spring of 2025, starting with summer field work in the Arctic.