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UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN Research Engineering/ Scientist Assistant in PORT ARANSAS, Texas
Field sampling of coastal waters from shore, by small boat, and on oceanographic cruises. Includes emergent and submergent vegetation along the entire Texas coast and other wetland sites as assigned via boat, hiking, swimming, and wading through mud and water in wetland habitats.Assist with in situ photosynthetic incubations.Process plant and sediment cores for organic matter, moisture content, dissolved pore water components, nutrients, chlorophyll, TSS, CHN and isotopic analysis, sediment grain size, and algal epiphyte enumeration and identification.Computer data entry, data QA/QC, some basic and preliminary data analysis.Assist with additional research related duties related to lab (sieving and sorting of biological material), field (instrumentation deployment), and K12 outreach activities.Laboratory work includes DNA extractions, PCR, and preparation of samples for sequencing.