Research Assistant: Methane Cycle Data Analysis in R

American University; Washington; On-site; USD 21,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

American University in Washington, DC is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support an NSF-funded project on trees and methane cycles. You will clean data with R, estimate missing values, and help generate figures and tables for a scientific manuscript.

You must be an enrolled student. The role involves weekly meetings with project mentors and contributing to data analysis, visualization, and writing tasks across the project.

Qualifications

• Enrollment as an American University student.
• Experience with data analysis and R is helpful.
• Interest in environmental data and methane cycle research.

Responsibilities

• Clean up data and estimate missing values using R.
• Create graphs and tables to visualize the data.
• Assist in writing text for a scientific manuscript.
• Meet weekly with Karen Knee and Betty Malloy to discuss progress and update goals.

Job description

American University in Washington, DC is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support an NSF-funded project on trees and methane cycles. You will clean data with R, estimate missing values, and help generate figures and tables for a scientific manuscript.

You must be an enrolled student. The role involves weekly meetings with project mentors and contributing to data analysis, visualization, and writing tasks across the project.