Responsibilities

As a Research Ecologist/Fish Biologist within the South Carolina Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, some of your specific duties will include:

• Plans, conducts, and directs research related to fish, wildlife, or ecological resources, with application to contemporary science, policy and management needs.
• Conducts research that is cooperator driven and provides scientific basis for management and policy decisions.
• Serves as subject matter expert in fish and wildlife ecology, providing leadership and guidance to government and private agencies and university representatives through participation in meetings, conferences and work groups.
• Disseminate research results via final reports, peer-reviewed print scientific journals, online scientific journals, books, book chapters or other outlets. Make presentations on findings to scientific and conservation organizations.
• Serves as graduate faculty member, contributing to both the research, graduate student mentorship, and teaching mission of the university.
• Operates a government owned or leased vehicle as an incidental driver.

Desired candidates will possess the following:1) Ability to build an applied research program focused on the quantitative ecology, management, and conservation of wildlife.2) Demonstrated experience designing, conducting, and publishing peer-reviewed research involving a spatial and/or landscape component.3) Expertise in analysis of animal movement and/or habitat-dynamics as it pertains to climate change, habitat connectivity, and/or conservation physiology is highly desirable.

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