We have an exciting fellowship opportunity for someone with a masters degree to join an urban forestry research team here in California studying schoolyard trees. Please forward to recent graduates from your masters programs. Deadline is 9/8/2023 so please encourage top candidates to apply soon.
The fellowship is through ORISE, and potential candidates should apply here: https://www.zintellect.com/Opportunity/Details/USDA-USFS-PSWRS-2023-0371
More about ORISE, an institute with Dept of Energy for STEM education and research: https://orise.orau.gov/index.html
This is a full-time two-year paid fellowship, and people with a master’s degree received within the past 5 years are eligible. Start date on the posting is Oct 1 but we can be flexible for a top candidate. The selected participant may participate out of the Vallejo or Riverside Forest Service offices in California. Options for hybrid or remote participation may be considered.
Fellowship activities include:
- Clean and analyze statewide planting records for K-12 public school campus plantings.
- Collaborate closely with Forest Service and university researchers to coordinate field season preparations and support field teams.
- Support geospatial analysis and maps of schoolyard trees and/or canopy.
- Systematic search and review of relevant literature.
- Participate in state and regional conferences and events (including travel), and support annual progress reports, to share findings with practitioner and researcher audiences.
- Support the development or adaptation of urban forestry related STEM enrichment activities for schools.
Preferred skills/experience:
- The fellowship is suitable to those with experience in a wide array of natural, physical, or social science fields, including but not limited to: ecology, forestry, urban forestry, horticulture, landscape architecture, urban planning, geography, environmental science/studies, earth science, or data science.
- Demonstrated skills with quantitative data and science writing.
- R skills, GIS skills and/or prior experience with field-based ecological or environmental research are also beneficial for this fellowship, but it is not required to have skills in all three.
- Successful candidates will be well-organized, detail-oriented, self-motivated, diligent with problem-solving, function well independently and in collaborative team settings, and have a high capacity for science communication.
Natalie van Doorn and I will be co-mentors of this fellow, and anyone with questions can write to us directly at natalie.vandoorn@usda.gov or lara.roman@usda.gov
Lara