C-DEBI Newsletter – January 15, 2021

C-DEBI Newsletter – January 15, 2021
A bi-weekly digest of deep biosphere news and opportunities
from the Center for Dark Energy Biosphere Investigations

Message from the Leadership:

To build on the enthusiasm shared in December’s annual meeting for additional virtual meeting opportunities to bring the C-DEBI community together, we are looking for early career researchers (students, postdocs, junior faculty, etc.) who would like to help co-organize these events. These volunteers would help determine and prioritize foci for meetings, assist with meeting organization, and take lead roles in running meetings. Anyone interested in this opportunity should please email a self-nomination to C-DEBI Senior Scientist Beth Orcutt and C-DEBI Managing Director Rosalynn Sylvan by January 20, 2021.

Cheers,
C-DEBI Leadership: Director Jan Amend, Associate Director Julie Huber, Steve D’Hondt, Andrew Fisher, Geoff Wheat, Steve Finkel, John Heidelberg, Beth Orcutt, Victoria Orphan, Alfred Spormann

Publications
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Environmental Microbiology
Microbe-mineral biogeography from multi-year incubations in oceanic crust at North Pond, Mid-Atlantic Ridge (https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.15366) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
Beth N. Orcutt*, Timothy D’Angelo*, C. Geoff Wheat*, Elizabeth Trembath‐Reichert
*C-DEBI Contribution 558

Subseafloor oceanic crust is a vast yet poorly sampled habitat for life. Recent studies suggest that microbial composition in crustal habitats is variable in space and time, but biogeographic patterns are difficult to determine due to a paucity of data. To address this, we deployed hundreds of mineral colonization experiments at and below the seafloor for 4–6 years at North Pond, a borehole observatory network in cool (<10°C) and oxic oceanic crust on the western flank of the Mid‐Atlantic Ridge. The overall community composition of mineral incubations reveals that colonization patterns are site dependent, with no correlation to mineral type. Only a few members of the Thioalkalispiraceae and Thioprofundaceae exhibited a mineral preference pattern, with generally higher abundance on metal sulphides compared to silicates, while taxa of the Gammaproteobacteria and Deltaproteobacteria were common in the colonization experiments. In comparison to datasets from other crustal habitats, broader
biogeographic patterns of crustal communities emerge based on crustal habitat type (surface‐attached communities versus fluid communities), redox environment and possibly crustal age. These comparisons suggest successional biogeography patterning that might be used as an indicator of how recently permeable pathways were established within oceanic crust.

 

Have an upcoming manuscript about the deep subseafloor biosphere and want to increase your press coverage? NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs is looking to coordinate press releases between your home institution and the NSF to coincide with the date of publication. Please contact us as soon as your publication is accepted! (mailto:rosalyyl@usc.edu)

Meetings & Activities
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C-DEBI Networked Speaker Series: Dr. Jesse Colangelo (Colorado School of Mines) (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/outputs-resources/networked-speaker-series/nss-jesse-colangelo-lillis/) – NEW!
Missed yesterday’s Networked Speaker Series talk? Watch the recording of Jesse Colangelo’s presentation on “Exploring the marine sediment environment’s influence on microbial sulfur isotope biosignatures using experimental evolution”. And mark your calendars for the next NSS on March 18, 2021 with Megan Mullis (Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi).

Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE) (https://urgeoscience.org/) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
Unlearning Racism in Geoscience (URGE), is a community-wide journal-reading and policy-design curriculum to help diversify the Geosciences supported by the NSF and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. URGE’s vision is to empower geoscientists, especially those who are historically over-represented, to implement anti-racist strategies into their workplaces and careers, thus taking ownership of the need for real change in our discipline. We invite lab groups, departments, professional societies, and others to form ‘pods’ that will serve as their discussion groups. Pods will engage in eight two-week units that incorporate readings, interviews with experts, and discussions focused on learning about and implementing effective anti-racist strategies. Help us unlearn racism in Geoscience by registering your pod now. URGE runs January 18 to May 7, 2021.

NAS: Ocean Decade U.S. Launch Meeting, February 3-4, 2021 (https://nas-ocean-decade-2021.heysummit.com/) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
The Ocean Decade U.S. Launch Meeting is a 2-day virtual event featuring a presentation of submitted “Ocean-Shots” that aspire to create transformation change towards Decade Challenges. The program will also include an Early Career Professionals Meet & Greet, Ocean-Shot ePoster Hall, and an Ocean Decade Nexus Exhibit Hall. Attendance is free and participants should register by February 2, 2021. Note the related call for “Ocean-Shot” Concepts below.

-Ridge Seminar Series (https://ridgeseminarseries.wordpress.com/) –
We invite you to join an on-line, multidisciplinary seminar series on the science of mid-ocean ridges, covering all aspects from Earth’s mantle to the water column above, and including aspects and disciplines (e.g., geochemistry, geophysics, structural geology, volcanology, hydrology, biology, physical and chemical oceanography, among others). The biweekly seminar series running through March 16, 2021 includes C-DEBI Senior Scientist Beth Orcutt presenting ”Between a rock and a hard place: Life in oceanic crust” on February 16, 2021.

-CJM: Call for Papers on Astrobiology – Insights into Microbial Life on Earth and Beyond (https://cdnsciencepub.com/do/10.1139/news.2020.10.07/abs/) –
Guest Editors Lyle Whyte (McGill University), Isabelle Raymond-Bouchard (McGill University), Miquel Angel Fernández-Martínez (McGill University) and Jackie Goordial (University of Guelph) invite you to submit a manuscript to a special collection on Astrobiology, to be published in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology. We are looking for a broad range of topics focusing on microbiology in the greater field of Astrobiology and what microbiology can teach us about the potential, survival and limits of life on Earth and in the universe. In addition we seek submissions that develop novel tools to detect biosignatures in our solar system. The Canadian Journal of Microbiology has no page charges and an open access option for members of $1000 CA. Submission deadline: March 8, 2021.

NAS: Call for “Ocean-Shot” Concepts: Transformative Research for the Decade (https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/us-national-committee-on-ocean-science-for-sustainable-development-2021-2030#sl-three-columns-e33ae106-08bc-49e3-8baf-078797861e38) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
The U.S. National Committee for the Ocean Decade has issued a call for submission of “Ocean-Shots”, defined as an ambitious, transformational research concept that draws inspiration and expertise from multiple disciplines and fundamentally advances ocean science for sustainable development. The goal is to spark transformative research for potentially “disruptive” advances that will open avenues for progress toward Decade goals. The next call for submissions is due: April 1, 2021.

-DOE / NMDC: Invitation to share your perspective on microbiome data science (http://bit.ly/nmdc_survey) –

Ongoing Activities:
* C-DEBI: Rolling call for Community Workshop support (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/research-activities/research-support/workshops/)
* C-DEBI: Protocols.io Group Page (https://www.protocols.io/groups/center-for-dark-energy-biosphere-investigations)
* C-DEBI: Subseafloor Cultures Database (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/outputs-resources/subseafloor-cultures-database/)

Education & Outreach
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WHOI: Summer Student Fellowship (REU) in Ocean Sciences and Engineering (https://www.whoi.edu/what-we-do/educate/undergraduate-programs/summer-student-fellowship/) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
A research project is at the heart of the Summer Student Fellowship at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI). Fellows have the opportunity to conduct research with access to more than two hundred practicing scientists and engineers and the facilities of a major oceanographic institution. Project topics span the vast spectrum of research in ocean sciences and engineering conducted in WHOI’s science departments and the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey. Fellowship recipients participate in seminars, professional development, social activities, and a hands-on, one-day, ocean sampling cruise on board the R/V Tioga focusing on data collection and sampling methods with advanced oceanographic technology and instruments. The fellowship provides a stipend of $650/week, as well as housing and a travel allowance. The program duration is a minimum of 10 weeks and a maximum of 12 weeks. The start and end dates are flexible – students arrive between the
end of May to mid-June. Requirements: Undergraduate STEM majors who will have completed their junior year are eligible. Deadline February 5, 2021.

Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) (https://www.bigelow.org/education/reu/how-to-apply.html) (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2020.116386) – NEW!
Undergraduates in Bigelow Laboratory’s summer REU Program spend ten weeks at the Laboratory conducting independent research with guidance from a scientist mentor. The REU Program is designed to give students pursuing degrees in the sciences, mathematics and engineering a laboratory-based research experience with an emphasis on hands-on, state-of-the-art methods and technologies. REU students are immersed in the Bigelow community and participate in seminars, field trips, laboratory outreach programs, social events, and more. Research areas vary year to year, but include marine microbiology, ocean biogeochemistry, optical oceanography, remote sensing, bioinformatics, sensory biology and phytoplankton ecology. The 2021 program dates are May 24 through July 30 and will be held at the Laboratory’s East Boothbay campus. Successful applicants receive a stipend, free housing, and funds for travel to and from Bigelow Laboratory. All application materials must be received by February 15, 2021.

-C-DEBI: Global Environmental Microbiology (GEM) Course, June 13-July 2 (https://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/education-diversity/for-undergraduates/gem-course/) –
C-DEBI’s Global Environmental Microbiology (GEM) course is an all-expense paid, three-week, intensive introductory aquatic microbiology program. We are recruiting early career undergraduates interested in a STEM career from 2- and 4-year colleges to join us at the University of Southern California and Santa Catalina Island from June 13 through July 2, 2021 for lectures, discussions, labs, fieldwork, networking, career panels and more focusing on aquatic microbes and their ecology taught by Drs. John Heidelberg and Eric Webb. Participation including travel, room, board, and course expenses are supported by C-DEBI. If we cannot provide an in-person program in summer 2021, we will offer a highly modified online version of the course: Summer OnLine Interactive/Discussion-Global Environmental Microbiology (SOLID-GEM). Applications are due February 25, 2021.
Proposal Calls
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-MBARI: 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship (https://www.mbari.org/2021-postdoctoral-fellowship/) –
Application deadline: January 20, 2021.

-NSF: Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Pathways into the Earth, Ocean, Polar and Atmospheric & Geospace Sciences (IUSE:GEOPAths) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505169&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline date: January 26, 2021.

-NSF: Biology Integration Institutes (BII) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505684&WT.mc_id=USNSF_40&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline date: January 27, 2021.

-NSF: Research Coordination Networks for Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505495) –
See also the NSF: DCL: Requesting proposals for online biology education to the RCN-UBE (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21026/nsf21026.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) -. -Full proposal deadline date: January 29, 2021.

-NSF: Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505749) –
Full proposal target date: February 1, 2021.

-NSF: Growing Convergence Research (GCR (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505637&WT.mc_id=USNSF_40&WT.mc_ev=click) –) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505749) –
Full proposal target date: February 1, 2021.

-NSF: Frontier Research in Earth Sciences (FRES) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504833&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
The FRES program will support research in Earth systems from the core through the critical zone. The project may focus on all or part of the surface, continental lithospheric, and deeper Earth systems over the entire range of temporal and spatial scales. FRES projects should have a larger scientific scope and budget than those considered for funding by disciplinary programs in the Division of Earth Sciences (EAR). Full proposal deadline date: February 3, 2021.

-NSF: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-2 (Mid-scale RI-2) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505550&WT.mc_id=USNSF_40&WT.mc_ev=click) –
NSF-supported science and engineering research increasingly relies on cutting-edge infrastructure. With its Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) program and Major Multi-user Research Facility projects (Major Facilities), NSF supports infrastructure projects at the lower and higher ends of infrastructure scales across science and engineering research disciplines. The Mid-scale Research Infrastructure Big Idea is intended to provide NSF with an agile, Foundation-wide process to fund experimental research capabilities in the mid-scale range between the MRI and Major Facilities thresholds. Letter of intent deadline date: February 3, 2021.

-NSF: Organizational Change for Gender Equity in STEM Academic Professions (ADVANCE) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5383&WT.mc_id=USNSF_40&WT.mc_ev=click) –
The NSF ADVANCE program contributes to the NSF’s goal of a more diverse and capable science and engineering workforce. The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to broaden the implementation of evidence-based systemic change strategies that promote equity for STEM faculty in academic workplaces and the academic profession. All NSF ADVANCE proposals are expected to use intersectional approaches in the design of systemic change strategies in recognition that gender, race and ethnicity do not exist in isolation from each other and from other categories of social identity. Full proposal deadline date: February 4, 2021.

-NSF: Chemical Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11698&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal target dates: February 15, 2021 and August 16, 2021.

-NSF: Physical Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12729&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal target dates: February 15, 2021 and August 16, 2021.

-NSF: Understanding the Rules of Life: Microbiome Interactions and Mechanisms (URoL:MIM) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21534/nsf21534.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline: February 23, 2021.

-NSF: Research Traineeship (NRT) Program (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505015&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline dates: February 25, 2021 and September 6, 2021.

-JGI: CSP New Investigator (https://jgi.doe.gov/user-programs/program-info/csp-overview/csp-new-investigator/) –
Next deadline: March 1, 2021.

-NSF: EarthCube: Developing a Community-Driven Data and Knowledge Environment for the Geosciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21515/nsf21515.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline: March 2, 2021.

-NSF: Ocean Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (OCE-PRF) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21538/nsf21538.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadlines: March 3, 2021 and November 12, 2021.

-NSF: Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21524/nsf21524.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline: March 5, 2021.

-NSF: Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO) (https://nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?WT.z_pims_id=505850&ods_key=nsf21543) –
This solicitation invites submission of collaborative proposals that tackle bold questions in biology and require an integrated approach to make substantive progress. Integrative biological research spans subdisciplines and incorporates cutting-edge methods, tools, and concepts from each to produce groundbreaking biological discovery. The research should be synergistic and produce novel, holistic understanding of how biological systems function and interact across different scales of organization, e.g., from molecules to cells, tissues to organisms, species to ecosystems and the entire Earth. Full proposal deadline date: March 16, 2021.

-NSF / NIH: Enabling Discovery through GEnomics (EDGE (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21546/nsf21546.htm) )-
Full proposal deadlines: March 16, 2021 and February 17, 2022.

-NSF: (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21524/nsf21524.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) Dimensions of Biodiversity (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21545/nsf21545.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Full proposal deadline: March 26, 2021.

IODP: Call for Drilling Proposals (http://iodp.org/proposals/call-for-proposals) – NEW!
The number of proposals, at all stages of development, currently in the system for the JOIDES Resolution provide many high-quality options for scheduling the ship through the end of the current program and into 2024; therefore, we are not requesting new pre-proposals or full proposals. We will accept revisions to pre-proposals and full proposals already in the system, new Ancillary Project Letters (APLs), new Land-2-Sea proposals, and submission of proposals that were deactivated in 2020 with an encouragement to revise and re-submit. Deadline: April 1, 2021.

-NSF: Center for Advancement and Synthesis of Open Environmental Data and Sciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21549/nsf21549.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
NSF seeks to establish a Center fueled by open and freely available biological and other environmental data to catalyze novel scientific questions in environmental biology through the use of data-intensive approaches, team science and research networks, and training in the accession, management, analysis, visualization, and synthesis of large data sets. The Center will provide vision for speeding discovery through the increased use of large, publicly accessible datasets to address biological research questions through collaborations with scientists in other related disciplines. The Center will be an exemplar in open science and team science, fostering development of generalizable cyberinfrastructure solutions and community-driven standards for software, data, and metadata that support open and team science, and role-modeling best practices. Letter of intent due date: April 1, 2021.

-NSF: International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20598/nsf20598.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Track I: IRES Sites (IS) due date: September 21, 2021. Track II: Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) due date: September 28, 2021.

-NSF: Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505289&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
Letter of intent deadline date: October 4, 2021.

-NSF: Accelerating Research through International Network-to-Network Collaborations (AccelNet) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21511/nsf21511.htm) –
Full proposal deadline: October 11, 2021.

-NSF: Tribal Colleges and Universities Program (TCUP) (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5483&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
See the program solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5483&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) for proposal windows and deadlines through 2021.

Rolling Calls:
* C-DEBI: Rolling call for Research Exchange proposals (http://www.darkenergybiosphere.org/research-activities/research-support/exchange/)
* IODP-USSSP: Proposals for Pre-Drilling Activities (http://usoceandiscovery.org/pre-drilling-activities/)
* NSF: Antarctic Research Program Solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20568/nsf20568.htm?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Arctic Research Program Solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21526/nsf21526.htm)
* -NSF: Biological Oceanography (https://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=11696&WT.mc_id=USNSF_46&WT.mc_ev=click) –
* NSF: DCL: Career-Life Balance (CLB) Supplemental Funding Requests (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21021/nsf21021.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: Collaborative Proposals under NSF and US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) Collaborative Research Opportunities (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20094/nsf20094.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: IMAGiNE FG: Functional Genomics (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21034/nsf21034.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: Poorly Sampled and Unknown Taxa (PurSUiT) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20059/nsf20059.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21013/nsf21013.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: DCL: UKRI/BBSRC-NSF/BIO Lead Agency Opportunity in Biological Informatics, Microbes and the Host Immune System, Quantum Biology and Synthetic Cell (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2020/nsf20118/nsf20118.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Division of Environmental Biology (core programs) (DEB) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21504/nsf21504.htm)
* NSF: Infrastructure Innovation for Biological Research (IIBR) (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21502/nsf21502.htm)
* NSF: Non-Academic Research Internships for Graduate Students (INTERN) Supplemental Funding Opportunity (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2021/nsf21013/nsf21013.jsp)
* NSF: Research Assistantships for High School Students (RAHSS): Funding to Broaden Participation in the Biological Sciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18088/nsf18088.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* NSF: Research Experience for Teachers (RET): Funding Opportunity in the Biological Sciences (https://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2018/nsf18089/nsf18089.jsp?WT.mc_id=USNSF_25&WT.mc_ev=click)
* UNOLS: Cruise Opportunity Program (https://www.unols.org/unols-cruise-opportunity-program)

Employment
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UIC: Bridge to the Faculty Postdoctoral Research Associate in Earth and Environmental Sciences (https://eaes.uic.edu/people/open-positions/)
Application deadline: January 22, 2021.

-Maryville College: Assistant Professor of Cell Biology (https://www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.php/jobs/ViewJobDetails?job=39737&clientkey=1064DAE0FBE4FE97CBC8BAA9499D8EE7) –
Applications received by January 31, 2021 can be assured of full consideration.

-Lehigh University: Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences (https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/17733) –
The initial deadline for applications is February 1, 2021.

Cleveland State University: Assistant Professor in Environmental Science and Data Analytics (https://hrjobs.csuohio.edu/postings/13513) – NEW!
The Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences of Cleveland State University invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor position in Environmental Science and Data Analytics. There is flexibility on the research foci, but successful candidates must be excited and able to teach GIS and other aspects of data science (e.g., analytics or remote sensing). Primary duties include conducting research and teaching in the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree programs in Environmental Science. Opportunities for collaboration and outreach beyond the department exist within the intercollege Center for Research on the Urban Environment (CRUE) and the new Center for Applied Data Analysis and Modeling (ADAM). Review of applications will begin on February 8, 2021.

-Bigelow: Bioinformatician at the Single Cell Genomics Center (https://bigelow.freshteam.com/jobs/HDSAopps3gb_/bioinformatician) –
Review of applications will begin February 15, 2021, and the search will continue until the position is filled.

URI: Assistant Professor of Chemical Oceanography (https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/7672) – NEW!
The Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) at the University of Rhode Island invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor within the broad specialization of chemical oceanography or marine chemistry, including research on the human impact on the Earth’s oceans. We seek applications from researchers who specialize in chemical oceanography or marine chemistry, particularly with a focus on carbon cycling. The new hire will enter the vibrant research community at URI and the many neighboring academic institutions within New England. We invite individuals with a strong commitment to research, excellent teaching and mentorship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The search is open until filled; first consideration will be given to applications received by February 28, 2021.

-WHOI: Research Assistant / Research Associate – MC&G (https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/1292/research-assistant—research-associate—mc%26g/job) –

-MBARI: Principal Investigator or Principal Engineer (focus on seafloor patterns and processes) (https://www.mbari.org/principal_investigator_engineer/) –