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: makresh@antioch.edu
Position Type: Work Study
Department: ES
Job Tags
Part time, Local area, Remote work, Afternoon shift,