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Research Engineering/ Scientist Assistant

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN

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PORT ARANSAS, TX
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Job overview

The Research Engineering/Scientist Assistant supports coastal and wetland research through field sampling, laboratory processing, data entry and preliminary analysis, and outreach activities. Fieldwork may take place from shore, small boats, and oceanographic cruises, as well as in wetland habitats. Laboratory duties include processing plant and sediment samples and preparing biological samples for sequencing.

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Skills

Field SamplingPhotosynthetic IncubationsSample ProcessingData EntryData QA/QCData AnalysisDNA ExtractionPCRSample Preparation

Full job description

Field sampling of coastal waters from shore, by small boat, and on oceanographic cruises. Includes emergent and submergent vegetation along the entire Texas coast and other wetland sites as assigned via boat, hiking, swimming, and wading through mud and water in wetland habitats.Assist with in situ photosynthetic incubations.Process plant and sediment cores for organic matter, moisture content, dissolved pore water components, nutrients, chlorophyll, TSS, CHN and isotopic analysis, sediment grain size, and algal epiphyte enumeration and identification.Computer data entry, data QA/QC, some basic and preliminary data analysis.Assist with additional research related duties related to lab (sieving and sorting of biological material), field (instrumentation deployment), and K12 outreach activities.Laboratory work includes DNA extractions, PCR, and preparation of samples for sequencing.

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