Research Assistant (Coastal and Marine Cluster, EMID)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist in marine environmental research
• Regular field trips onboard research vessels that may extend outside conventional office hours
• Coordination of field trips, logistics and pre-field preparation
• Post-field processing of samples, including identification of specimens and image processing
• Purchasing of consumables and equipment
• General administrative duties
• General maintenance of laboratories and equipment
• Curation of reference collection
• Data management, analysis, interpretation and reporting

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a major in Marine Biology
• Strong background in coral ecology and/or biostatistics
• SCUBA Divers with a minimum of Rescue diver certification and/or 100 logged dives will be given priority
• Experience with LIT survey techniques
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Honest, highly motivated, resourcefulness, independence and a desire to learn
• Proficiency in MS Office applications, LaTeX and R
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• A background in ecological or mathematical modelling is a bonus