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.

We are seeking a Project Manager who has skills as a field limnologist to support the project and its participants in the following ways:

1. Help to plan each field season by coordinating planning across groups and field teams, and generating and harmonizing planning documents required by the US Antarctic Program and its contractors.
2. Coordinate the planning and successful execution of annual team meetings (typically 2 per year) and regular online meetings.
3. Coordinate and support field team deployment and activities from McMurdo Station, including permitting in accordance with Antarctic Science Contractor regulations.
4. Help PIs orchestrate annual reports to the sponsor.
5. Lead early-season limnological sample and data collection from several ice-covered lakes and coordinate with others to lead second and third samplings within the same season
6. QA/QC all limnology data generated by the limnology team prior to Limnology PI conducting final review before submission to data base.
7. Work up all CTD casts from the individual limnological data collection campaigns.
8. Coordinate limnological field data concatenation (i.e., PAR, pH, ice thickness, etc.).
9. Conduct PPR analyses and follow up with radiological-related materials preparation/training, ordering, calibration, waste tracking and paperwork.
10. Conduct/coordinate chlorophyll-a, primary productivity and respiration, dissolved inorganic carbon and Thymidine update analyses for lake samples in McMurdo.
11. Assist limnology field team and stream team with shipping and other preparations for upcoming field seasons (documentation, planning, field notebook preparation).
12. Assist with all limnology team and stream team data submissions by coordinating with the geochemistry team, the field teams.

$75,000 - $78,000/year.

• A bachelors degree.
• The candidate must be able to deploy to Antarctica for extended periods of time (October to end of January) to fulfill the responsibilities of this position. Deployment requires a full physical qualification process each year.
• The candidate may be required to travel to partner institutions in the boreal summer to collect geochemical data.
• Experience with conducting limnology field sample and data collection on ice-covered lakes.
• Collaborative attitude and dedication to supporting team success. 

• Background in Antarctic or other remote field station deployment.
• Organization skills, proficiency with data processing tools.
• MS in environmental science or related field.