Position: The Evans-White Laboratory in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, invites applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellow in Freshwater Ecology beginning in February 2019.
Minimum Requirements: Ph.D. in Biology, Natural Resources, Environmental Sciences, Ecology, or related field prior to appointment and demonstrated research productivity in freshwater ecology.
The Prince William Sound Science Center (www.pwssc.org), a non-profit research and education institution located on the shores of Prince William Sound in Cordova, Alaska, is seeking two field technicians for a fisheries management related position focused on the use of imaging sonars for counting fish passage in the Copper River.
Duties: Operate and maintain a pair of imaging sonars at a remote field site, maintain and facilitate data telemetry, and enumerate fish passage.
Start date: by March 1st if possible.
Salary: $48-50K/annually, plus benefits.
Montana Natural Heritage Program (MTNHP) of the University of Montana is seeking Seasonal Ecological Monitoring staff for rangeland and aquatic surveys during the summer of 2019. MTNHP is partnering with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 2019 to implement their terrestrial and aquatic Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) strategy, which is targeted at collecting standardized inventory and long-term vegetation data at multiple scales across BLM Districts in the Western U.S.
Graduate PhD positions are available in the Laboratory of Freshwater Ecology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario to conduct ecological research on lakes and rivers. Research for these positions could range from nutrient effects on animal nutrition and food webs to landscape studies of carbon and nutrients. Field work for these positions could include projects in the Great Lakes and their watersheds, central Ontario in cottage country and the Experimental Lakes Area in northwestern Ontario.
The University of Michigan announces one post-doctoral research and coordination opportunity, beginning January 2019. The opportunity is in the field of Sustainability and Development. The selected candidate will work closely with the faculty team involved in this work at UM, and initially will assist in helping three of the goals of the Sustainability and Development Initiative at UM: Creation of a Sustainable Development Goals Resource book; organization of the annual sustainability and development conference, and development of an online curriculum on the topic.
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This is an opportunity for graduate studies at the Master’s or doctoral level as part of a collaboration between Gray Turnage, of the Mississippi State University GeoSystems Research Institute (gri.msstate.edu) and the Ervin Plant Ecology lab (garyervin.net).
The Post Lab at Yale University (https://postlab.yale.edu/) and the Subalusky Lab at University of Florida (https://asubalusky.wordpress.com/) are seeking a postdoctoral associate to study aquatic secondary production in response to wildlife subsidies in the Mara River, Kenya. The successful candidate will combine comparative and experimental methods to test predictions that the magnitude of resource subsidies influences trophic structure and function.
We are seeking a student to pursue a PhD in ecology in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying the ecology of Lake Myvatn, Iceland. Our project involves aquatic research with a strong quantitative component. We are seeking a PhD student with interests that intersect any of the ongoing research areas in the project, including food web ecology, ecosystem function, limnology, biogeochemistry, and population dynamics. A MS degree is not a pre-requisite.
