Research Assistant: Methane Cycle Data & Visualization

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

Job summary

American University is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support an NSF-funded study on the role of trees in the global methane cycle. You will use R to clean large methane-emission datasets from baldcypress trees, estimate missing values, and analyze temporal and spatial variation to extrapolate forest-scale fluxes.

You will also contribute figures, tables, and manuscript text. The role involves weekly meetings with the PI and team, and the position is available to enrolled AU students.

Qualifications

• Experience using R for data cleaning and visualization.
• Ability to estimate missing values and perform time-series analysis.
• Ability to generate figures, tables and manuscript text.

Responsibilities

• Meet weekly with project team to discuss progress and update goals.
• Clean up data set to remove erroneous points and estimate missing values.
• Create graphs and tables using R to visualize the data.
• Characterize how methane fluxes vary in time and space.
• Use measurements to extrapolate plot- and forest-scale estimates.
• Generate figures, tables, and text for a scientific manuscript.

Skills

R programming

Data analysis

Tools

R Studio

Job description

American University is seeking a part-time Research Assistant to support an NSF-funded study on the role of trees in the global methane cycle. You will use R to clean large methane-emission datasets from baldcypress trees, estimate missing values, and analyze temporal and spatial variation to extrapolate forest-scale fluxes.

You will also contribute figures, tables, and manuscript text. The role involves weekly meetings with the PI and team, and the position is available to enrolled AU students.