Downeast Institute: NSF Research Assistantships - Yund lab

Post date: Nov 9, 2016 3:57:42 PM

We are pleased to offer two undergraduate research assistantships for the summer of 2016. Assistants will participate in an interdisciplinary NSF-funded project examining how larval dispersal interconnects blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) populations along the Gulf of Maine coast. Students will work as part of a team with faculty and graduate students from the University of Maine, the University of Massachusetts, and Northeastern University. Specific tasks will include shore-based intertidal and boat-based water column sampling, laboratory analysis of field samples, and computer analysis of ecological and physical oceanographic data. Students are encouraged to specialize on a subset of these tasks and develop independent projects on related topics. Participants will be based at the University of Maine’s Darling Marine Center in South Bristol, ME, though the project will require periodic multi-day field trips to the Acadian region of Maine.

To learn more about these assistantships, please follow this link.