Turtle Research Assistant

Dec 18, 2025

The Wetlands Institute is seeking qualified applicants for a seasonal Research Assistant position to assist with long‑term study of diamondback terrapins and Eastern box turtles. Primary responsibilities include assisting with mark‑recapture surveys, conducting surveys of nesting areas and roadways, maintaining road mitigation fencing, and assisting with telemetry studies.

This is a temporary, hourly position (approx. 40 hrs/week) that will include regular early morning, weekend, and holiday hours. The regular responsibilities of this position will require frequent work in adverse field conditions (heat, humidity, exposure to thorns, poison ivy, ticks and other biting insects) for sometimes long periods; handling live, injured, and dead turtles; conducting necropsies; assisting with animal husbandry;

and participating in community‑based outreach programs. The Research Assistant will be responsible for recording detailed observations and data in the field, data entry and management, maintenance of equipment, as well as assisting with other surveys and tasks as assigned. The position will require walking long distances in dense vegetation, wading in marsh creeks, carrying equipment (