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  • AgCareers.com Internship Opportunities
    AgCareers.com is excited to bring you these internship opportunities currently available on our website! In order to apply to these internships you do not have to be a member of AgCareers.com. You can simply click on the corresponding logo or link and you will be directed to the posting where you can apply.
  • Paint Rock Canyon Enterprises Internship
    Hyattville, Wyoming

    "Come spend your summer break, a semester, or an entire year gaining working knowledge of large-scale animal production. Enjoy hard work while meeting new people, getting dirty, working hands-on with cattle and horses, and so much more."
    If you're interested in an internship, please contact Jeff Page or Will Scott, via email at hyatt@tctwest.net.

    Applications are welcome year round.
  • Management Specialist
    Coyote, New Mexico

    The Coyote Ranger District of the Santa Fe National Forest will be filling a GS-0454-9/11 Rangeland Management Specialist. This position is a permanent full time position with a duty station in Coyote, New Mexico. This notification is being circulated to inform prospective applicants of this upcoming opportunity and to determine interest in the position. Government housing is available. This position develops the overall rangeland management plans goals and objectives. Develops long and short-range plans based on rangeland resource needs and condition. The incumbent will carry out rangeland management problems with diverse, multi-purpose, and interdisciplinary aspects, such as conducting inventories and annual monitoring of rangeland resources. Monitors, inspects, and analyzes rangeland resources and uses to determine the effectiveness of ongoing management and possible alternatives of planned management practices or changes that will help achieve land management goals more efficiently and effectively.

    Expires: Jan 18, 2010
  • Research Rangeland Management Specialist
    Woodward, Oklahoma

    The Rangeland and Pasture Research Unit in Woodward, Oklahoma is seeking candidates for a post-doctoral position. The incumbent will be responsible for research in the influence of sagebrush control on plant communities and soil in relation to livestock production and wildlife habitat health in a sand sagebrush-grassland ecosystem. The research will ultimately provide recommendations for management of this natural resource that encompasses 12 million acres. The incumbent will also publish data from a 6-year experiment describing sagebrush-grass cover and forb-ecology relative to weather effects, wildlife habitat, and soils, as well as assist in the analysis of livestock performance data from stocker cattle grazing the site.

    Deadline/Availability: http://www.afm.ars.usda.gov/divisions/hrd/hrdhomepage/vacancy/09034.htm
  • Ph.D. student position: community ecology/macroecology
    Ernest Lab at Utah State University has an opening for a Ph.D student in the general areas of Community Ecology or Macroecology to start fall 2010. Active areas of research in the Ernest lab include desert ecology, long term dynamics of community properties, and the role of body size in the ecology and life history of mammals.

    Expires: Dec 01, 2009
  • UNR Modeling & Ecoclimatology Faculty
    The successful candidates are expected to establish a widely recognized research program in climate change, supervise graduate students, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses. Teaching responsibilities will be one course per year during the first three years of the appointment, three courses in the fourth year, and four courses starting from the fifth year, with a possibility of course releases depending on the availability of extramural research funds. Salary and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience and education.

    Dec 15. 2009
  • Department Head and Professor
    The department head is responsible for: 1) providing dynamic vision and leadership for the Department in concert with MSU and COA/MAES strategies and priorities; 2) leading, coordinating, growing and administering the Department's teaching, research and outreach programs; 3) fostering a Department culture that is participatory, dynamic, futuristic, and unique to the region/nation and supports faculty, staff and student excellence; 4) recruiting personnel, managing budgets, evaluating performance, coordinating promotion and tenure processes, participating in development activities and managing A&RS resources, and 5) representing the faculty in various capacities on-and off-campus. In addition, the Department Head is expected, at levels commensurate with the administrative appointment, to provide high quality teaching, to maintain a research program and/or to provide quality outreach that complement or enhance current activities. The successful applicant should have experience in leading a diverse undergraduate and graduate program and have an appreciation and understanding of the needs of faculty specializing in multiple disciplines and engaged in multidisciplinary approaches to teaching and research.

    Expires: Dec 18, 2009
  • Ph.D. GRA
    The successful applicant will assist in monitoring and conduct data analyses to quantify water yield and peak flow alteration due to land use in an intensively instrumented central Missouri (USA) forested, agricultural and urban watershed.

    Expires Dec 30, 2009
  • University of Wyoming Faculty Position Rangeland Systems Ecologist
    The University of Wyoming, Department of Renewable Resources invites applications for the position of Assistant Professor (Research 45%, Teaching 50% and Service 5%). We seek a rangeland ecologist working at landscape to watershed scales in arid and semiarid ecosystems. The successful candidate will develop a process based research program to address natural resource science and management issues driving complex system behavior in support of sustainable rangelands.

    Expires: Nov 20, 2009
  • Faculty Position- Rangeland Systems Ecologist
    We seek a rangeland ecologist working at landscape to watershed scales in arid and semiarid ecosystems. The successful candidate will develop a process-based research program to address natural resource science and management issues driving complex system behavior in support of sustainable rangelands.

    Expires: Nov 30, 2009
  • University of Alaska Anchorage: GRAs in Physiological Ecology
    Two research assistantships are available to study the interactions between climate and vegetation in northern Alaska. The first position will be based during the summer months at the Toolik Lake Field Station in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range.

    The second position will be based at a remote site near the Arctic treeline in Noatak National Preserve, northwest AK. The study sites are approximately 20 miles ESE of Noatak and 40 miles NNE of Kotzebue, AK. Access is via bush plane during the summer months and snowmachine during the wintertime.

    Expires: Nov 30, 2009
  • UTAustin GRAs in ecology
    The Hawkes, Juenger and Keitt Labs in the Section of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin invite prospective students to apply for graduate studies under the nexus of a newly funded 4 year project exploring switchgrass (Panicum) ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change, funded by the National Science Foundation. The project will blend genomic, experimental and modeling approaches to address spatial and temporal variation in switchgrass biomass production across North America.

    Expires: Nov 30, 2009
  • URBAN & REG PLNR-A - State Land Office-Hobbs
    Maintain and Manage State Trust Lands in Lea County; provide market-based valuations and land use recommendations for state lands leased for agricultural use, right of way, mineral exploration, commercial, and oil & gas development; assist other districts as needed in the management and analysis of state trust land.

    Expires: Nov 17, 2009
  • URBAN & REG PLNR-A - State Land Office-Farmington
    Maintain and Manage State Trust Lands in San Juan and western Rio Arriba Counties; provide market-based valuations and land use recommendations for state lands leased for agricultural use, right of way, mineral exploration, commercial, and oil & gas development; assist other districts as needed in the management and analysis of state trust land.

    Expires: Nov 17, 2009
  • URBAN & REG PLNR-A - State Land Office - Carlsbad
    Maintain and Manage State Trust Lands in San Juan and western Rio Arriba Counties; provide market-based valuations and land use recommendations for state lands leased for agricultural use, right of way, mineral exploration, commercial, and oil & gas development; assist other districts as needed in the management and analysis of state trust land.

    Expires: Nov 17, 2009
  • Post Doctoral Research Position in Arctic Plant Physiological Ecology
    We are seeking a post doctoral researcher to work on a an NSF funded interdisciplinary project looking at the winter physiological processes in two arctic tundra ecosystems under current and simulated climate change scenarios. The specific project opportunities will depend on the interests and experience of the applicant, but include: leaf to ecosystem photosynthetic processes, plant water relations in extreme environments, carbon recycling under the snow

    Expires: Dec 1, 2009
  • postdoc in plant population and community ecology
    Travis Huxman, Amy Angert and Larry Venable have postdoc funding for an individual who can work with us on linking the physiological ecology of individual species to population and community dynamics in a of suite of Sonoran Desert annuals. We are looking for someone with a good understanding of and interest in community ecology, theories of species coexistence, demography or plant physiological ecology.

    Expires: Dec 1, 2009
  • Research Internships in Plant Ecology
    Research in the plant ecology laboratory of Eric Menges emphasizes conservation biology, plant demography, restoration ecology, fire ecology, landscape ecology, and fire management. We study many species of endemic vascular plants in endangered Florida scrub and related communities. Active fire management provides outstanding opportunities for short term comparative studies in fire ecology. Our long term (22 year) datasets on dozens of scrub plants gives context to short term, focused, field projects.

    Expires: Dec 15, 2009
  • Ecological Genomics of Drought Stress in Prairie Grasses
    We have a position available for a PhD student to study the ecological genomics of drought stress. The project will include studies of the responses of native prairie grasses to variation in precipitation using the ecologically dominant prairie grass big bluestem as a model. The work is part of a project funded by the USDA Plant Biology Abiotic Stress program. The project will include common garden transplant experiments and genomic approaches to test for the signature of adaptive genetic differentiation among natural populations of big bluestem across the precipitation gradient of the Great Plains.

    Expires Dec 20, 2009
  • Assistantships in Community Ecology at Univ. of Kansas
    Graduate Assistantships (M.A. or Ph.D. level) are available in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas. I am seeking highly motivated students interested in experimental community ecology, grassland biodiversity and restoration. Research opportunities exist within the context of an NSF funded study testing alternative models of plant community assembly and using grasslands as a model study system. Students will be encouraged to develop research projects related to one or more of the following related themes: community assembly, ecological succession, species coexistence and biodiversity, metacommunity dynamics, disturbance ecology, biological invasions, community and ecosystem restoration, impacts of climate change.

    Expires: Jun 1, 2010
  • The University of Arizona
    The University of Arizona invites applications from applied climatologists, quantitative ecologists and ecological modelers for the tenure track position of Assistant Professor with an emphasis on Phenoclimatology. This will be an academic appointment within the School of Natural Resources and the Environment for an individual who will collaborate closely with colleagues across campus and particularly with the USA National Phenology Network to provide leadership in bridging between phenological ecology and applied climatology (www.usanpn.org).

    Expires: Nov 20, 2009