University of California
Davis, California, USA

Responsibilities:

  • Develop a food web research project within an ongoing study in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California.
  • Objectives include evaluating effects of allochthonous inputs from upland transitional zones on nutrient composition and food production in adjacent freshwater tidal marshes.
  • Help conduct monthly boat surveys of fish, plankton and water quality, run growth rate experiments, and develop a model of how landscape-level processes can be enhanced to benefit native fishes.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelors or Masters degree in Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, or related fields.
  • Successful candidates will have experience in field and lab research, boat handling and writing.
Contact: 
Dr. John Durand, [email protected]
Full post: 
Deadline: 
Friday, December 15, 2017