A Masters assistantship is available in the Department of Biology at Georgia Southern University, with an anticipated start date of January 2019. The student will be expected to contribute to a multi-investigator project examining the potential benefits of ribbed mussels, Guekensia demissa, to living shoreline success in Georgia. The project is a collaboration between the lab groups of Dr. John Carroll and Dr. Risa Cohen, who have broad interests in marine ecology, restoration and ecotoxicology. The field work for this effort will start in early spring and continue for two years. The graduate student will be expected to participate in a monitoring program during the summer that requires moderately strenuous fieldwork (lifting approx. 50 lbs., bending, carrying heavy equipment, and walking

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