Individual Placement- Groundwater Species Survey and Identification

Job description

Position Summary The individual placement is based at the San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, with the individual primarily working with the Joint Base San Antonio Groundwater Assessment Team. This specific project is investigating groundwater health and species biodiversity through a three-pronged approach: physical organismal surveys, water quality/chemistry assessments, and species detection using environmental DNA. Wells located on the San Antonio Joint Bases are sampled for all three assessments on a seasonal basis. This internship is focused on collecting water samples, rain fall and well depth data and organismal samples from traps set in the wells. The intern will also sort through samples separate species collected in the physical surveys. Location: San Marcos, TX: Schedule: May 18, 2026 - April 2, 2027 Key Duties and Responsibilities: - Sort and identify groundwater dwelling invertebrates; - Use a dissecting scope and imaging software to take pictures of these invertebrates; - Subsample the invertebrate tissue for downstream analyses; - Catalog what species were identified, from what location, their collection date, and how many were observed; - The Individual Placement...