Field Research Technician for GLACIER / Research Assistant II

Working/Functional Title
Field Research Technician for GLACIER
Position Summary
The Field Research Technician will:

Coordinate day-to-day field and greenhouse experiments related to plant responses to climate stress.

Assist with the construction, installation, testing, and maintenance of GLACIER infrastructure, including rainout shelters, heating arrays, flooding platforms, irrigation systems, and sensor networks.

Manage seasonal field operations, including planting, plot maintenance, irrigation, treatment imposition, sampling, and harvest.

Collect plant physiological, phenotypic, and environmental data, including measurements related to growth, water status, photosynthesis, stress responses, and yield.

Maintain organized records of experimental treatments, sensor outputs, field notes, sample metadata, and data collection protocols.

Develop and implement standard operating procedures for GLACIER field experiments, infrastructu...

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