Two volunteer field assistants needed to assist with a PhD field study on energetics of lactation and physiological costs of reproduction in Columbian ground squirrels in the Sheep River Provincial Park in Alberta, Canada. Successful applicants will gain extensive field experience in trapping and handling adults, yearlings, and juvenile squirrels and will learn valuable field techniques including eartagging, marking, tissue sampling (including blood and milk collection), genealogy-keeping, and daily visual observations. This is a voluntary position, however, rent at the University of Calgary field station will be free and there is the potential to earn academic credit (if offered through your institution) and to receive letters of recommendation (based on your performance in the field). Field work starts on June 1 and extends to July 7, the time period in which females are giving birth and nursing young. Assistants are needed for this entire time period.
Assistants must be:
(1) genuinely interested in behavioral and physiological ecology;
(2) speak fluent English;
(3) be independently motivated;
(4) have a good work ethic;
(5) the ability and desire to work long days in the field in varying weather conditions (including snow and rain).
If interested, please email a cover letter stating why you would like this job and a resume to skibiam@auburn.edu by May 18, 2008
Amy Skibiel
Assistants must be:
(1) genuinely interested in behavioral and physiological ecology;
(2) speak fluent English;
(3) be independently motivated;
(4) have a good work ethic;
(5) the ability and desire to work long days in the field in varying weather conditions (including snow and rain).
If interested, please email a cover letter stating why you would like this job and a resume to skibiam@auburn.edu by May 18, 2008
Amy Skibiel