Field Biologist to support Grinnell Project -- The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley is currently engaged in a long-term project to document changes in diversity and distributions of small mammals and birds in California through re-surveys of sites originally examined by Joseph Grinnell and colleagues in the early 20th Century. The intent is to use these data to test the performance of model-based predictions of species’ responses to changes in climate and land-cover, and thereby improve on predictions of future responses. Read more...

Field Research Assistant Position, Summer 2008 (with Craig Moritz, MVZ, UCB) -- Thermal ecology and disease susceptibility of Rana sierrae, This summer we will be undertaking experimental translocations of Rana sierrae in the Yosemite region to test hypotheses about ecological factors that influence whether populations infected with Batrachochitrium persist or go extinct.  As part of this collaborative study (involving Cherie Briggs and Roland Knapp at UCSB, Vance Vredenburg at UCSF and Erica Rosenblum (UCB)), we need to improve our understanding the thermal ecology of the frogs in natural habitats and how it relates to chtirid burden and survivorship of frogs over the summer active period. Read more...  

UCB Undergraduate Student Field Assistant Positions --
Please fill out the Grinnell Application and the MVZ Undergraduate Application (unless you have already done so).
Download the Grinnell Application (doc)
Download the MVZ Undergraduate Application (doc)
Deadline is March 10, 2008.

Cal students should check with our Student Position Listings, and CalJobs, Cal Work-study, and curators/grad students for positions. For future opportunities, Cal students should fill out a "MVZ Undergraduate Application" (get) and submit it to the front office of the MVZ, attention Anna Ippolito (or email it). We will keep these on file and may contact you in the future when new positions become available.