Moose and Parasite Technician

Job description

Overview The Moose and Parasite Technician will assist research studying how climate change may be impacting the prevalence of moose parasites, and how these stressors may be altering moose population dynamics and movement. This technician position serves as an opportunity to work with graduate students to gain field and lab experience working around large mammals, in rough terrains, and with parasites. Learn more about our labs’ research at Clark-Wolf Lab and Weinstein Lab! Responsibilities: The technician will assist with moose calf survival surveys and will utilize telemetry data of moose location to assess the number and survival of calves. Secondly, from June through mid-September, the technician will aid in setting Nzi traps to collect tabanid flies to assess the presence of arterial worms, a moose parasite. Finally, from mid-September through mid-November (depending on snowfall), the technician will conduct tick drags and identify larval ticks. Between field seasons, the technician may be asked to assist with labwork with tabanid flies. All field seasons involve detailed data collection, field navigation on foot and in a work vehicle, as well as working outside in a variety...