Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

As the University's oldest institute, INSTAAR has a long history of responding to pressing environmental issues including climate change. Our traditional focus has been on alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic regions, where effects of global change are especially pronounced. In recent decades, our research has broadened to include environmental challenges that span local, regional, and global scales. INSTAAR’s research activities integrate field studies, state-of-the-art laboratory experiments, sample analysis, and numerical and laboratory modeling. Our field sites are located across all seven continents and the world's oceans.

Our expertise across disciplines helps us generate influential science that can inform public and policy decisions and move us toward a more sustainable society. INSTAAR's national and international research leadership is augmented by exceptional strength in graduate education and bringing undergraduates into the research process.

• Conducting field work across Eastern Boulder County to collect plant biomass samples and other information, processing and analyzing plant and soil samples in the lab, and managing and analyzing data.

• Experience conducting field work in a range of conditions. Ability to hike up to a mile at a time and a drivers license. Interest in fire and grassland ecology questions.

• Basic plant identification skills, strong attention to detail, and experience working in an ecology lab setting.

• Basic experience using R for data management and analysis, interest in grassland and fire ecology questions, experience interfacing with the public and land/resource managers.