Graduate Assistantship Intensive Case Studies

Hawai’i Conservation Alliance & Foundation; Honolulu (HI); On-site; USD 25,223 - 30,828; Full time

Job summary

The Hawai’i Conservation Alliance & Foundation is offering a Graduate Assistantship to support the Hawaii Climate-Smart Partnership project at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. This role involves intensive research on agroecosystems, including Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and soil health metrics.

The candidate will engage in collaborative studies, contribute to field and laboratory research projects, analyze data, and participate in manuscript preparation and professional presentations. The position offers an annual salary starting at $28,026 with a duration of 3 years.

Qualifications

• Experience in conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for case studies.
• Familiarity with soil health metrics and monitoring soil carbon and GHGs.
• Ability to engage in multi-metric analysis for equity components.

Responsibilities

• Conduct independent and collaborative research project design and implementation.
• Co-develop field sampling protocols for agroecosystem studies.
• Draft manuscripts and present results at professional conferences.

Skills

Independent research

Collaborative research

Statistical analysis

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

Soil health metrics

Geospatial (GIS) analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

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Opportunity Details

Opportunity Type:

Fellowships

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Opportunity Description:

Starting annual salary of $28,026 USD with 3% COLA

3 Years

Location: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

The Hawaii Climate-Smart Partnership is an ambitious 5-year project that envisions transformation within Hawaiʻi’s agroecosystems, guided by innovative, contemporary science from both Western and Indigenous ways of knowing to address multiple, pressing challenges posed by climate change. The UH-based science and innovation team of the Partnership is building capacity in data-driven, relational fields that interweave soils, agroecosystems, ʻāina momona, and indigenous genealogy and wellbeing into more just climate-assessment frameworks for an abundant future.

The Graduate Assistant will contribute to intensive case studies focusing on agroecosystem function along the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. The research will include Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for each case study and soil health metrics, with an emphasis on soil carbon and greenhouse gas (GHG) monitoring to validate multi-metric approaches for diverse case studies. Metrics will serve different needs and purposes, integrating an equity component that considers past land use and identifying potential for sustainable futures (PEWA). This position will also involve making recommendations for future trajectories and informing assessments.

The candidate will support multiple ongoing research projects as they relate to the Hawai‘i Climate-smart partnership (HiCSC) objectives and co-develop a collaborative study design and implementation of field and laboratory research projects with a cross-disciplinary team of researchers and students. The candidate will participate in planning and executing field and laboratory studies, data collection, statistical analysis and reporting, including manuscript preparation.

Responsibilities

• Independent and collaborative research project design and implementation
• Co-development of field sampling protocols
• Conducting Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) for case studies
• Follow established laboratory standard operating procedures for soil analysis
• Implement soil health metrics and monitor soil carbon and GHGs
• Engage in multi-metric analysis for the equity component related to past land use, literature review, data collection, and statistical analysis including geospatial (GIS) analysis
• Professional interaction with producers and practitioners; presentation of results at professional conferences
• Manuscript drafting and publication of results