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.
The AquaFish Innovation Lab provided support for and participated in a workshop in 2018 to formalize and develop structure for the Aquaculture Network of East Africa