Opportunities for Graduate Students in Kelp Forest Ecology

Posted by on Dec 1, 2021 in jobs | No Comments

I currently have two openings for graduate students in either the UMB Biology Department or SFE. Please see below and don’t hesitate to contact me with questions! Grad Student for Using Hyperspectral Imagery to Assess the Effects of Warming on New England Kelp Forests The Byrnes and Schaaf labs at UMass Boston (http://byrneslab.net and https://www.umb.edu/spectralmass) […]

Job: Biological Monitoring Tech in the Byrnes Lab

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Seasonal Biological Monitoring Technician in the Byrnes Lab June 1 – Aug. 31, 2021 The Byrnes lab at UMass Boston seeks two summer technicians for work on biological monitoring of rocky shorelines in the Boston Harbor Islands in collaboration with the Stone Living Lab. The Stone Living Lab (https://stonelivinglab.org/) is a multi-investigator effort to evaluate […]

Looking for Postdoc Interested in Kelp, Remote Sensing, and Citizen Science

Posted by on Jan 24, 2020 in jobs | No Comments

We are seeking a postdoctoral researcher interested in the use of remote sensing to understand the drivers of giant kelp dynamics at global scales. The Floating Forests project (http://floatingforests.org) is a NASA funded citizen science effort to map changes in kelp abundance using Landsat satellite imagery. The successful candidate will analyze this data to examine […]