Fully Funded Postdoctoral Position in Paleoecology and Freshwater Ecosystem Dynamics Using Lake Sediment DNA McGill University in Canada

McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada, is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a project on long-term freshwater community and ecosystem dynamics using sedimentary DNA (sedDNA). The project will use metagenomic analyses of lake sediment records to reconstruct past food-web dynamics and quantify shifts in ecosystem functions in Quebec lakes. Sedimentary DNA and paleolimnology enable the study of organisms that may not leave subfossils and support broader investigations of freshwater ecolo...

MSc and PhD positions are available in freshwater science, management, and conservation at the Olden Lab , University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. The opportunity is based in the Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences , Faculty of Forestry & Environmental Stewardship, at UBC in Vancouver (Grey Point campus). The research theme is centered on freshwater systems, with likely connections to ecology, conservation, environmental stewardship, and resource management. This post is relevant ...

The National Research Council Canada is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow in Halifax, Canada, through its Metrology Research Centre. The two-year project, Innovating Algal Biotoxin Surveillance Through Digital Immuno-Polymerase Chain Reaction , will develop molecular and analytical tools for detecting harmful algal blooms and cyanobacterial toxins. The fellow will establish droplet digital PCR assays targeting toxin-biosynthesis genes, then develop immuno-ddPCR methods that combine antibody-based...

Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, offers a six-month master’s thesis in microbial ecology at its Kastanienbaum site near Lucerne, Switzerland. The project investigates bacterial and archaeal diversity in Swiss lakes as part of the Swiss National Assessment of Lake Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (SNALBES). The successful student will use approximately 100 lake samples to study microbial community diversity and composition through 16S rRNA gene amplicon seq...

UBC’s new Olden Lab is recruiting an inaugural cohort of 6–8 MSc/PhD students to help build a freshwater science program from the ground up at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Research themes include hydropower, eDNA biosurveillance, invasive species, species-at-risk recovery, water security in the age of AI data centers, iEcology, machine learning, and conservation tech. Supervision is by Dr. Julian Olden (Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair in Freshwater Ecosystem Sustainability). Th...