Regeneration Technician

The Bisbing Forest Ecology & Silviculture Lab at UNR is hiring full-time temporary  regeneration ecology research technicians as part of the Sierra Nevada Adaptive  Management Experiment (AMEX). Research technicians will work closely under the supervision of a researcher and crew lead from the Bisbing lab to maintain and sample a long-term provenance trial (i.e., baby tree garden) at multiple locations throughout the Sierra Nevada.

Duties include: measuring seedling survival and growth, downloading weather station and temperature logger data, weeding or grubbing gardens, and conducting repeated measurements of planting site climatic conditions. The field technician(s) will be responsible for maintaining equipment/tools as well as regularly entering, quality checking, and uploading data. A large aspect of the work could also be manual labor to maintain the gardens. This includes vegetation removal that is sometimes overbearing for the trees and challenging to remove. 

Housing (i.e., barracks) is provided at few sites, with tent camping necessary at most locations. A field vehicle is provided for on-site work. This crew will continually rotate between locations and should expect to change sites weekly throughout the season. Field sampling may occur in burned areas and/or in challenging terrain. Ideal candidates will have a strong ability to solve problems that arise in the field and the constitution to both act independently and work well as part of a field team.