Current Opportunities

Field and Lab Manager Position: We are looking for a detail-oriented and organized field and lab managers to coordinate Cal Poly Humboldt Wildland Fire Lab with logistics for a number of research projects investigating fuels and forest characteristics in old-growth redwood forests, ponderosa pine forests, and black oak woodlands. Work will entail purchasing and coordinating access to field equipment, facilitating field access and logistics, managing and submitting travel and purchase reimbursement documents, processing field samples, managing and entering data, and assisting with field and lab data collection when needed. This position will be based out of Arcata, CA with possible occasional travel to field sites to assist with project work. 

Field Research Assistant Positions:  We are looking for 6-9 motivated and curious field assistants to assist Cal Poly Humboldt in partnership on a number of different field research projects this summer: 1) Influence of variable thinning and prescribed burning treatments on surface fuel loading and season fuel moisture dynamics in ponderosa pine forests of northeastern California (based out of Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest near Susanville, CA; 2-3 positions); 2) Characterizing fuels and forest structure of upslope old-growth redwood forests prior to prescribed burning in northwestern California (based out of Arcata, CA; 2 positions); 3) Long-distance dispersal within large high severity fires in California/Oregon and possibly beyond (based out of Arcata, CA; 2 positions), and 4) characterizing the historical spatial structure of a black oak woodland in the Klamath Mountains (based out of Arcata, CA; 2-3 positions).