Postdoctoral Fellow

Postdoctoral Fellow available at the University of Idaho (in either Dept of Biological Sciences or Dept of Fish & Wildlife Sciences).  The postdoc will work within a team of collaborators as part of a 3-year NSF-funded project to develop, validate, and field deploy novel monitoring instruments that use digital cameras and Edge AI to individually identify, count, and measure small mammals without the need for physical capture. The interdisciplinary research team is made up of biologists, engineers, and computer scientists. The postdoc will lead the field implementation aspects of this novel project and will take leadership on specific research questions that capitalize on the instrument’s new capabilities to yield novel insights into the ecology, evolution, and conservation of small mammals.  The postdoc will be responsible for conducting field validation of the instrument by comparing estimates of population density, species diversity, abundance, survival, and individual level physical measurements made by the instrument to those estimated using traditional trapping methods. The applicant must be willing and able to conduct field research during spring and summer (April-Aug) at remote field sites in the mountains of central Idaho. Field research will be supported by a summer technician trained and supervised by the postdoc.