Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

The NOAA Fisheries Research Participation Program will serve as the next step in the educational and professional development of scientists and engineers interested in learning about coastal stewardship and management. This program provides opportunities for students and recent graduates to connect with the unique resources of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) where they can have authentic research experiences using equipment not found on most college campuses.

Zacchaeus Compson’s research group at the University of North Texas—along with PIs at Penn State University (Daniel Allen) and the University of Alabama (Arial Shogren)—is looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate to coordinate an NSF-funded project titled, “DISTANCE: Determining In-Stream Transport of eDNA Across NEON Sites at the Continental ScaleE.” The postdoc will coordinate the project and mentor a cohort of three PhD students (one at each partnering university). Regular field experiments will take place at streams near each institution, and collaborative field campaigns will occur in the summers at National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) sites across the US.

A postdoctoral position is available to understand the effects of forest watershed stand age and equivalent clearcut area on stream ecosystems throughout Vancouver Island. This research seeks to integrate an ongoing aquatic dataset, including physical (discharge, substrate, canopy cover), chemical (nutrients and dissolved organic carbon), and biological (periphyton, macroinvertebrate, fish) data for which two years of data have been collected, and landscape scale characteristics (determined from landowner information and/or remote sensing).