Hiring Organization: Stony Brook University Date Posted: 2019-08-03 Position Description: One field assistant needed for The Simien Mountains Gelada Research Project, a study of the behavior, communication, endocrinology, and conservation of wild geladas (Theropithecus gelada) ? a close relative of baboons. All research is conducted at a remote field station located in the Simien Mountains National Park of Ethiopia. Directors of the project are Dr. Thore Bergman and Dr. Jacinta Beehner (University of Michigan), Dr. Amy Lu (SUNY Stony Brook), and Dr. Noah Snyder-Mackler (U Washington). The successful candidate will be responsible for (a) collecting basic demographic and reproductive data as part of routine monitoring of the well-habituated study population, (b) conducting focal animal