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Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

Freshwater Science Jobs & Opportunities

  • SFS members, academic institutions, public agencies, and nonprofit organizations may post jobs and opportunities freely at no charge.
  • For-profit companies may submit postings, but a $35 donation to an SFS endowment fund is suggested.
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  • The board is updated twice weekly.

Fisheries Biologist, La Grande Ranger District — Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

Posted: 
Friday, March 8, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, March 18, 2024

The La Grande Ranger District, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest is filling a GS-0482-9/11 Fisheries Biologist position in La Grande, Oregon. The Wallowa-Whitman in partnership with the neighboring Umatilla National Forest and many diverse partners recently submitted a Collaborative Forest Restoration Proposal (CFLRP) that was selected as the top project in the nation presenting new opportunities for advancing landscape scale restoration activities including activities focused on aquatic restoration objectives. The district fisheries biologist will provide biological input for fish habitat management, development of fishery management plans, ensure compliance with fishery management plans, and prepare a variety of reports on effects to fish and aquatic resources from proposed management activities.

Research Vessel Engineer — University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Sunday, March 31, 2024

The Research Vessel Engineer operates and maintains the mechanical systems necessary to operate the School of Freshwater Sciences research vessel in support of Freshwater's educational and research activities both at sea and in port, assists the Captain with vessel operation, assists faculty, staff, and students in executing safe and efficient field operations, and provides general facility support. The School of Freshwater Sciences (SFS) at UWM is the only school in the nation dedicated solely to the study of freshwater issues. Its interdisciplinary research and education programs link science with action and are integrated across five major areas: freshwater system dynamics; human and ecosystem health; freshwater technology; freshwater economics, policy, and management; and climate and atmospheric sciences.

Professor and Chair, Department of Natural Resources Management — Texas Tech University

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Sunday, April 14, 2024

Davis College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources at Texas Tech University is seeking an innovative, dynamic, collaborative, and entrepreneurial Chair of the Department of Natural Resources Management who will provide intellectual and strategic leadership for teaching, research, outreach and engagement, and service endeavors in the Department of Natural Resources Management. The position of Chair of the Department of Natural Resources Management is a full-time, 12-month, tenured, Professor to begin August 1st, 2024.

Aquatic Ecologist — SUNY Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain Research Institute

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, April 1, 2024

The Research Foundation for the State University of New York at Plattsburgh (RF-SUNY) seeks qualified candidates for the position of Aquatic Scientist/Limnologist with The Lake Champlain Research Institute at SUNY Plattsburgh. The position will serve as a Project Coordinator for a study titled Deep Lake Limnology in Lake Champlain: The Role of Climate Change and Storm Events on Lake Vertical Structure. This is a full time, 12-month position, with the Research Foundation for SUNY, a private, nonprofit corporation.

Section Leader / Science Supervisor — South Florida Water Management District

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Sunday, April 14, 2024

The Lake and River Ecosystems Section, within the Applied Sciences Bureau of the SFWMD, is recruiting for the position of Section Leader or Science Supervisor to manage a diverse team of environmental scientists conducting ecosystem research and monitoring in the headwater lakes of the Everglades (Lake Okeechobee and the Kissimmee Chain of Lakes). This candidate will primarily oversee implementation and development of lake research and monitoring projects related to the Lake Okeechobee Protection Program and Kissimmee River Restoration. This position will assist the Section Administrator with evaluating program direction and addressing key knowledge gaps related to ecosystem restoration through hydrologic and water quality improvements.

Post-doc, fisheries/aquatic ecology/statistical ecology — University of Toronto

Posted: 
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Thursday, March 28, 2024

The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in fisheries / aquatic ecology / statistical ecology. Research will focus on analyzing a large dataset related to the fish community and additional trophic levels, sampled from numerous locations within Lake Erie during the past two decades. This research will be conducted in collaboration between the University of Toronto and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry. The overall objective is to study the interactions among fish species and their environmental conditions, such as temperature, nutrients, zooplankton and phytoplankton communities in Lake Erie, to develop a better understanding of factors influencing the dynamics and recruitment of commercially important species (walleye, yellow perch, lake whitefish).

Editor-in-Chief, Freshwater Science journal — SFS and University of Chicago Press

Posted: 
Friday, March 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Monday, March 25, 2024

The Society for Freshwater Science, in partnership with the non-profit publisher University of Chicago Press (UCP), is seeking applications for the position of Editor-in-Chief (EiC) for the Society’s journal Freshwater Science. The EiC’s appointment will be a three-year, renewable term (June 2024 through May 2027). Optimally, the new EiC would begin to handle submissions on April 15, 2024, and work with the outgoing editor until assuming full responsibility for the Journal on June 1, 2024. Applications are due no later than 25 March, 2024.

Postdoc, Modeling invertebrate responses to restoration and global warming — INRAE (France)

Posted: 
Friday, March 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Friday, March 29, 2024

INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment) seeks a postdoctoral researcher to join the EcoFlowS team of the RiverLy research unit. The position is part of the RhônEco programme, a long-term interdisciplinary research program designed to monitor, assess and anticipate the effects of the ecological restoration of the Rhône. It constitutes an ecological observatory for the river, which adapts to the changing socio-environmental context, in order to take better account of new types of ecological restoration (e.g. sediment recharge of the main channel) and the effects of global change to help manage the river and its floodplains.

Assistant Research Scientist, Large River Ecology — Illinois Natural History Survey

Posted: 
Friday, March 1, 2024
Expiration Date: 
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

The Illinois Natural History Survey is seeking an Assistant Research Scientist with a broad background in large river ecology and experimental design to synthesize diverse existing data and identify important data gaps in space or topic area within the Upper Mississippi River (UMR) from Pool 14 to Pool 25 and develop potential approaches for addressing these data gaps. INHS is part of the Prairie Research Institute (PRI) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which is centrally located between Chicago, St. Louis, and Indianapolis.

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