Job Description

Start Date: 5/5/2025

End Date: 8/22/2025

Number of Positions: 2

Hours per Week: 40

Weekends Required: Sometimes

Evenings Required: No

Supervisor: Mike Akresh

Alternate Supervisor: Amy Roy

This position allows for remote work Yes/No: No

Percentage of time that could be remote (0-100%):

Job Description

Method to assess remote work:

• Assistants are needed to help with ongoing research on wildlife-habitat relationships and the effects of forest management in the Northeastern USA.
• The research assistants will work with AUNE faculty and collaborators at local NGOs and private landowners.
• The work will entail conducting bird and vegetation surveys in sites, often where forest management and silviculture has occurred.
• Work will entail conducting in-person point counts, point-intercept vegetation surveys, and surveys for beech leaf disease (20 hours per week, per student).
• Some work may entail data entry and management.
  
  

Qualifications

• Interest in research that focuses on wildlife-habitat relationships in forests
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent data management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to learn how to identify forest birds and plant species
• Federal work study funds
  
  

How to Apply: Send a short cover letter of interest and your CV to Mike Akresh.

Email: [email protected]

Position Type: Work Study

Department: ES

Job Tags

Part time, Local area, Remote work, Afternoon shift,

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