Title: Graduate Assistantship, Freshwater Ecology=20 =20
Location: University of Toledo=20 =20 Description: Graduate student sought for an Ohio SeaGrant-funded project designed to determine whether light and nutrient conditions inside the Maumee River plume in western Lake Erie act as an incubator of Microcystis blooms. We will use a combination of field data, growth experiments, and molecular and physiological markers of stress to determine the response of phytoplankton communities to differing light conditions both in the field and in laboratory incubations. These measurements will indicate the relative physiological status and potential growth of Microcystis and competing algal taxa within natural algal assemblages, inside and outside of the river plume. The Earth, Ecological, and Environmental Sciences Department of the University of Toledo is a research intensive environment and offers competitive compensation packages to qualified graduate students, see: http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/. Work will be based at the Lake Erie Center, a state-of-the-art research facility on the shore of Maumee Bay, see: http://www.lakeerie.utoledo.edu/. Contact Thomas Bridgeman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (419) 530-8373, or Christine Mayer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], (419) 530-8377, for further information.=20 =20
