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.

1. Designing an experimental protocol that will be implemented to disentangle environmental effects from species interactions on alpine plant demography, species persistence, and coexistence in turf transplant communities.
2. Leading turf transplant data collection and experimental implementation.
3. Mentoring an undergraduate field technician in alpine data collection.
4. Assisting with ITEX data collection, including plot set-up, community composition, and monitoring Trollius transplant demography.

$40/hour - $42.25/hour.

• Bachelors degree or higher in ecology, evolution, environmental studies, biology or a related field.

• Previous experience working in alpine ecosystems.
• Background in plant demography.
• Previous experience designing and implementing a field experiment.

• Previous experience mentoring undergraduates in ecological research.
• Previous statistical and coding experience analyzing field data.