Masters Game Bird Ecology: New Mexico State University

School: New Mexico Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, NM State University

Location: NM Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, NM State University, Las Cruces, NM

Job Category: Graduate Assistantships

Website: http://web.nmsu.edu/~carleton/index.html

Salary: 23,000

Start Date: 01/14/2017

Last Date to Apply: 11/15/2016

 

Description:

   One Masters Graduate Assistantship will be available starting January, 2017 to work on the response of sympatric scaled and bobwhite quail population demography and space use to prescribed fire and mesquite removal in eastern New Mexico. The successful applicant will be supported for three years on a graduate assistantship, but will be required to assist as a graduate teaching assistant for two different semesters.

 

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications: 

     Applicants must have an undergraduate degree in Wildlife, Biology, Conservation Biology or related field by December 2016 with a graduate GPA of 3.0 or higher. Direct experience with field studies that involved trapping, tracking, and handling of birds is highly desirable.

Desired Qualifications: 

     The most qualified applicants will have wildlife related field experience, including but not limited to, telemetry, working independently at remote field sites, supervising technicians, and demonstrated skills in data organization. Duties will include managing technicians, trapping, banding, attaching VHF transmitters, tracking birds, vegetation sampling, assisting with the preparation of reports and publications, and presentations for scientific audiences. The successful applicant must be willing to work, sometimes long hours, under variable climatic conditions and be comfortable living at remote locations for up to 6 months.

How to Apply: 

     Interested applicants should send a cover letter, CV/Resume, unofficial undergraduate transcripts, and GRE scores (preferably as one pdf document) to Dr. Scott Carleton in the New Mexico Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit at New Mexico State University (carleton@nmsu.edu or as a last resort to NMSU, MSC 4901, Las Cruces, NM 88003). If you are selected as a finalist for the position, you will be asked to provide three letters of reference. For more information please contact: Scott Carleton (carleton@nmsu.edu)