<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Jessica Blois</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:jblois@ucmerced.edu">jblois@ucmerced.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 2:09 PM<br>Subject: FW: Post Graduate Research Opportunities with EPA- San Francisco (Deadline 12/16/2021)<br>To: ES Graduate Students <<a href="mailto:esgradstudents@ucmerced.edu">esgradstudents@ucmerced.edu</a>>, ES Core Faculty <<a href="mailto:ES-Core-Faculty@ucmerced.edu">ES-Core-Faculty@ucmerced.edu</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Jessica<br>
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Phone: (209) 228-2256<br>
Email: <a href="mailto:jblois@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">jblois@ucmerced.edu</a><br>
Web: <a href="http://jessicablois.com" target="_blank">http://jessicablois.com</a> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Post Graduate Research Opportunities with EPA- San Francisco (Deadline 12/16/2021)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:black">Happy Tuesday! I wanted to make sure I forwarded a postgraduate research opportunities that are currently available at EPA
R9</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:black">’</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:black">s Water Division. These research positions are offered through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) which is
a U.S. Department of Energy asset dedicated to enabling critical scientific, research and health initiatives of the department and its laboratory system. One position will work primarily on c</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">onducting
research focused on improving data access, analysis, and communication related to San Francisco Bay environmental (water and habitat quality) and program implementation tracking data</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:black">
on the </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:ArialMT">San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (SFBWQIF) while the other research position will primarily focus on researching the temperature requirements for west coast salmon to inform recommendations
and actions under the Clean Water Act and other environmental regulations. </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:black">Research positions are open to Masters and Postdoctoral students and comes with a monthly stipend! At this
time the annual stipend for master's degree ~$68,000/year and doctoral degree ~$82,000/year. The position duration is one year with the option to extend the appointment for up to three years. This program also includes a mentor component to help guide ORISE
research recipients throughout their appointment. All interested candidates must submit their application materials by<b> December 16, 2021 by 12pm PST.
</b>Feel free to circulate this email and attached documents to all interested parties in your organization/institution.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial-BoldMT;color:black">I will also work on posting this opportunity to Handshake later this week. As always, feel free to reach out if you have any
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Camille Weber
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">75 Hawthorne St.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jason (Jay) Sexton</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">(he/him/his)<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Associate Professor<br>Department of Life and Environmental Sciences<br>University of California, Merced<br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">231 Science and Engineering Building 1<br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a><br><a href="http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/</a><br></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><br><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"></span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished ~
Lao Tzu---</span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">---We are quite literally air, water, soil, energy and other
living creatures ~ David Suzuki---</span></font></p>
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