The Suding lab in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management at UC Berkeley are seeking two field assistants for April 1 June 15, 2014 to help with field work studying weed invasions in California rangelands in Browns valley, California. The project takes a community ecology approach to uncovering the constraints to spatial spread in rangeland weeds.
Assistants will help with (1) surveying species composition in grassland vegetation, (2) mapping and measuring target exotic plant species, (3) managing data, (4) measuring soil moisture, (5) some work with livestock measuring cow dispersal of target species and observing foraging and movement behavior. The assistants will perform fieldwork as part of a team from the University of California, Berkeley, but will be based at the Sierra Foothills Research and Extension Center (SFREC, http://ucanr.edu/sites/sfrec/). For more information, and to apply, see Job # 17307 on the UC Berkeley Jobs website. Applications will be reviewed starting on January 30, and will continue until position is filled: https://hrw-vip- prod.is.berkeley.edu/psp/JOBSPROD/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL? Page=HRS_CE_HM_PRE&Action=A&SiteId=1
