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Work-Study Research Assistant Program Faculty Name: Daniel Bolnick Faculty Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology General Research Focus: We are studying how fish ecological niches change when they are re-introduced to a habitat. This entails grinding and weighing and packing muscle tissue for Carbon and Nitrogen stable isotope analysis to infer diet, in fish sampled from 16 lakes in Alaska. Brief Position Description: The WSRAP researchers will prepare fish muscle tissues (pre-dried) by grinding and weighing and packing them to ship to a laboratory in Switzerland for stable isotope analysis. The students will be responsible for careful sample preparation, and data management tracking information on the samples. When data collection is completed there is an opportunity to be involved in data analysis after. Students will learn the basics of stable isotope analysis for ecological inferences of diet, and good data management practices. A "Student Laboratory & Field Analysis Assistant - 203" will assist faculty in research efforts within a laboratory or other research-specific environment. A student in this position will Students will grind, weigh, and pack samples and record information on each sample in a database, then send samples to a remote lab for mass spectroscopy. |