Graduate Research Assistantship in Fish Ecology
sponsored by NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assessment, University of the Virgin Islands’ Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, and the USGS State Partnership Program
Project Title: Identifying ontogenetic movements and habitat use of juvenile Nassau grouper and other fishes inside and outside marine protected areas in the USVI.
Project start date/ duration: May 2008/ 2 years
Project location: St. John and St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands
Stipend: summer (full-time 3 month $6,000), academic year (half-time 9 months $9,000)
Project Summary: We are seeking a motivated graduate student to work with UVI and NOAA scientists on a joint acoustic telemetry project to track several commercially exploited fish species, including Nassau grouper, through their daily home range and across ontogenetic habitat shifts. The project will also quantify growth and mortality rates for selected species, both inside and outside marine protected areas (MPAs). These data will provide important information on fine-scale space-use patterns, behavioral responses to seascape structure, and the efficacy of MPAs for individual species.
The graduate student will conduct repeated scuba and snorkel fish surveys, help capture, tag and release a variety of fish, conduct manual fish tracking from a small boat, and assist in routine maintenance, data acquisition and analyses of movement data. The graduate student will also contribute to analyses of coral reef monitoring data collected by NOAA, UVI and territorial partners.
Basic Requirements: The successful applicant will have a BS degree in Biology or related field, be comfortable with basic statistical analyses, be a certified SCUBA diver, be able to operate a small boat, and be willing to work for long hours in the field under a variety of weather and sea conditions.
Application procedure: All applicants will need to write a letter of interest, submit a current CV and be accepted into the University of the Virgin Islands Master’s of Marine and Environmental Science (MMES) degree program. MMES application package can be found at http://mmes.uvi.edu/ or contact Dr. Sylvia Vitazkova (svitazk@uvi.edu, tel: 340-693-1427). The application deadline is March 3, 2008. For more information on the research program contact Dr. Rick Nemeth (rnemeth@uvi.edu, tel: 340-693-1381) or Dr. Simon Pittman (Simon.Pittman@noaa.gov, tel: 340-693-1179).
sponsored by NOAA’s Center for Coastal Monitoring & Assessment, University of the Virgin Islands’ Center for Marine and Environmental Studies, and the USGS State Partnership Program
Project Title: Identifying ontogenetic movements and habitat use of juvenile Nassau grouper and other fishes inside and outside marine protected areas in the USVI.
Project start date/ duration: May 2008/ 2 years
Project location: St. John and St. Thomas, U. S. Virgin Islands
Stipend: summer (full-time 3 month $6,000), academic year (half-time 9 months $9,000)
Project Summary: We are seeking a motivated graduate student to work with UVI and NOAA scientists on a joint acoustic telemetry project to track several commercially exploited fish species, including Nassau grouper, through their daily home range and across ontogenetic habitat shifts. The project will also quantify growth and mortality rates for selected species, both inside and outside marine protected areas (MPAs). These data will provide important information on fine-scale space-use patterns, behavioral responses to seascape structure, and the efficacy of MPAs for individual species.
The graduate student will conduct repeated scuba and snorkel fish surveys, help capture, tag and release a variety of fish, conduct manual fish tracking from a small boat, and assist in routine maintenance, data acquisition and analyses of movement data. The graduate student will also contribute to analyses of coral reef monitoring data collected by NOAA, UVI and territorial partners.
Basic Requirements: The successful applicant will have a BS degree in Biology or related field, be comfortable with basic statistical analyses, be a certified SCUBA diver, be able to operate a small boat, and be willing to work for long hours in the field under a variety of weather and sea conditions.
Application procedure: All applicants will need to write a letter of interest, submit a current CV and be accepted into the University of the Virgin Islands Master’s of Marine and Environmental Science (MMES) degree program. MMES application package can be found at http://mmes.uvi.edu/ or contact Dr. Sylvia Vitazkova (svitazk@uvi.edu, tel: 340-693-1427). The application deadline is March 3, 2008. For more information on the research program contact Dr. Rick Nemeth (rnemeth@uvi.edu, tel: 340-693-1381) or Dr. Simon Pittman (Simon.Pittman@noaa.gov, tel: 340-693-1179).
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