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  • Range Management Specialist
    Under general supervision of the Natural Resources Manager, utilizes current Best Management Practices (BMP's) to fulfill all of the Pueblo of Laguna's Range Management needs, while maintaining the confidentiality of all privileged information.
  • Scientist I
    Under general supervision, performs a variety of non-routine scientific tasks and studies to assist in solving various scientific issues.
  • AgCareers.com Internship Opportunities
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  • Grad Assistant posting, University of Kentucky
    A Master's level graduate assistantship is available at the University of Kentucky Department of Animal and Food Sciences for a qualified applicant with an interest in parasites of horses.
  • Range Techs Position, WY
    Classify and describe floristically the habitat types and plant communities used by radio-tagged sage-grouse.Use various vegetation sampling techniques including line-intercept, Daubenmeier plots, and belt transects for recording habitat characteristics. Identify and inventory numerous grass, forb, and shrub species in predominately shrub steppe habitats in northern Wyoming. Sample invertebrate species using pitfall traps. Assist as necessary on radio-tracking, trapping, and tagging greater sage-grouse
  • Dean, College of Agriculture
    The Dean's primary role is to provide vision and leadership in the College, promoting an environment optimal for the pursuit of excellence in learning, engagement, discovery and international experiences. As chief executive officer of the College, the Dean actively represents the College to a variety of constituents inside and outside the University, and is also responsible for many state regulatory functions. The Dean also provides leadership for the recruitment and promotion of faculty and staff, budget development, and allocation of fiscal and physical resources within the College. The Dean provides leadership in fundraising and capacity for obtaining extramural support. The Dean reports directly to the Provost and works closely with other deans, vice presidents, and the President.
  • Full Time Faculty Position (Lecturer)
    The Department of Animal Science at Iowa State University invites applications for a 9-month, full time faculty position (lecturer) in the companion animal sciences program and in undergraduate academic advising in animal science and pre-veterinary medicine. This faculty position will begin January 1, 2009 and is a non-tenure track, 3-year appointment with the possibility of renewal.
  • Assistant Professor Tenure Track
    The successful candidate will join a department of 32 faculty members who maintain nationally and internationally recognized research, outreach, and undergraduate and graduate teaching programs in animal sciences. The Ohio State University is one of the largest and most comprehensive research universities in the world. The position is available as a 9-month appointment and located at the Wooster campus, which has excellent laboratory and research facilities. Additional information regarding our department can be found at http://ansci.osu.edu/.
  • Field Technicians
    Collect/record data in the field for vegetation and soil sampling on monitoring and research projects.
  • Assistant Professor, 12-month, Tenure-Leading Position
    The position is located at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center (PHREC) at Scottsbluff, Nebraska. The successful candidate will provide leadership for Range Management research/extension programs in western Nebraska. Will conduct applied research on the sustainable use and resource management of semi-arid rangelands and the ecological implication of grazing and sustainable livestock production on rangelands.
  • Student Intern Position
    A team of researchers modeling the effects of shifts in climate and land-use on ecosystem processes, including biogeochemical cycling, biomass production, water quality, and wildlife habitat, has need for a student intern to prepare geospatial datasets on climate, soils, land use, and other environmental characteristics.
  • Postdoc positions on fire and climate effects in Idaho
    Two postdoctoral positions are available for interdisciplinary research on responses of sagebrush steppe ecosystems to fire and climate change. One position will focus on vegetation, microclimate, and wind erosion. The other position will focus on ecosystem responses to fire and to long term manipulations of precipitation and plant community assemblage.
  • PhD Research Assistantship in Grassland Ecology
    An NSF sponsored Research Assistantship is available starting Jan 2009 to pursue a PhD in Plant Biology with David Gibson & Sara Baer of Southern Illinois Carbondale's Center for Ecology. The RA will participate in our NSF Funded prairie restoration project that is testing the effects of seed source on community/ecosystem assembly and will be expected to develop their own related project for their dissertation.
  • Assistant Professor, Ruminant Nutritional Physiology, Department of Animal Sciences, Oregon State University
    Responsibilities include developing a nationally and internationally recognized, extra-murally funded research program in nutritional metabolomics or the physiological regulation of metabolism in the dairy cow; improving the efficiency of nutrient utilization in dairy cattle with an emphasis on the optimization of forage-based diets being desirable; focus should be the determination of physiological, metabolic, or genetic factors that affect dairy cattle performance and efficiency.
  • Two Graduate (PhD/MS) Assistantships at UNR: Pinyon Juniper and Shrubs
    Two graduate research assistant positions are available beginning September 2008 to work with Dr. Ashley Sparrow in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Science at the University of Nevada Reno: 1. Historical pinyon juniper woodland distribution in Central Nevada (PhD or MS). 2. Resprouting by Great Basin Native and Exotic Plants (MS).
  • Paid Botany Internship in Richfield, Utah
    Possible projects may include locating, inventorying, and monitoring native plant populations for the purpose of collecting seeds for the Seeds of Success and Native Seeds for Restoration programs; native seed planting and research; brochure development (development and design of a brochure to highlight the needs of cacti species in South Eastern Utah) to promote environmental education in regard to our native flora; seed cleaning to assist the Great Basin Research and Seed Warehouse in Ephraim, Utah and Wilderness Study Area monitoring.
  • Director, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources
    The College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resources Sciences (CAHNRS), and WSU Extension at Washington State University (WSU) seek an internationally recognized leader to serve as Director of its Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources with a faculty rank of Associate Professor or Professor.
  • Animal Resources Supervisor - Meat Lab Manager
    This position plays a major role in the Department of Animal Science teaching and research program, and is responsible for managing a federally inspected slaughterhouse and meat processing facility. The facility is highly regulated and requires extensive record keeping.
  • Animal Management Position Announcement
    An individual is sought to teach Principles of Animal Science (ANSC101), Principles of Animal Science Laboratory (ANSC103), and Livestock Management (ANSC 220). Responsibilities would include instruction of Principles of Animal Science, and coordination of Principles of Animal Science Laboratory every Fall semester and instruction of Livestock Management every other spring.
  • Ecologist for Dairy Systems
    Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) and Department of Animal Science (ANS) are seeking a jointly appointed, assistant or associate professor in the area of pasture-based dairy production systems and the interactions with ecosystem and landscape processes.
  • Molecular Nutritionist Associate or Assistant Professor
    Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure track). This position is a 70% research and 30% teaching appointment. The emphasis of the position is on cellular and molecular determinants of nutrition in economically important agricultural species or related animal models.
  • Farm Superintendent
    The incumbent in this position is responsible for managing the J. F. Witter Teaching & Research Center, which includes the Witter Farm, Rogers Farm and Smith Farm in Orono and Old Town, Maine.
  • Department Head, and Range Sciences Department at South Dakota State University
    The Animal and Range Sciences Department at South Dakota State University seeks a dynamic individual for the position of Department Head to provide strong and effective vision and leadership. The Department is a unit of the College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, and the Department Head reports to the Dean of the College. This is a 12-month, administrative appointment with academic rank of Associate Professor or Professor in the Department of Animal and Range Sciences. Tenure status is negotiable
  • Lipid Biologist
    Tenure track faculty position with research and teaching emphasis in lipid metabolism. Selected candidate is expected to establish and maintain an independent, extramurally funded, basic research program and contribute to undergraduate and graduate teaching programs. The research program would focus on discovery of basic mechanisms controlling lipid metabolism, obesity, or differential synthesis of fatty acids and their roles in animal and human health. Specific research may include genetic, molecular, and/or cellular factors governing lipid biology. Opportunities exist for interdisciplinary research/collaboration with faculty across campus.
  • Post Doctoral Associate in Meat Science
    The successful candidate will be responsible for planning and conducting data collection, analysis and reporting of research results through publication as research reports and manuscripts in professional journals. The successful applicant will work in the areas of meat quality, safety, composition and processing. Other areas may also include but not limited to animal growth and development, sensory evaluation, packaging and cookery. The ideal candidate will also present research results at professional meetings and conferences. Secondary responsibilities will be to assist in research projects not under direct responsibility of the candidate. The successful candidate will also develop, write and submit extramural grants.
  • Director, International Affairs/ ACES Global Connect
    The Director, International Affairs/ACES Global Connect, is a full-time administrative position that reports to the Dean of the College. The Office of International Affairs/ACES Global Connect is a framework that will prepare College faculty and staff to capture opportunities from the world market and the international mobility of knowledge and people. The Office of International Affairs/ACES Global Connect seeks to integrate and coordinate the energy of the College on the international front, from planning through implementation, and across all College units. International travel is expected. A tenured faculty appointment in one of the academic units of the College of ACES may be possible, dependent upon the qualifications of the candidate
  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    The successful candidate will oversee continuing long-term studies on vegetation changes in the Nebraska Sandhills, vegetation changes associated with fire and mowing tallgrass prairie, and succession in Sandhills blowouts.