Description: This position serves to provide support for the analysis of long-term datasets, one on beavers in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest and the second on nesting ecology of grassland birds. The purpose of the project is to provide science-based information to support inventory and monitoring efforts that contribute to the management of natural resources in the state of Wisconsin.

Responsibilities: The Research Associate is responsible for implementing analysis strategies as well as helping to develop new areas of research. The Research Associate will be responsible for retrieving identified environmental (e.g., water quality, climate data) and spatial (e.g., surrounding land cover/use of surrounding landscape) data, incorporating into the data sets, and running