ALFA Eminent Scholar Graduate Fellow

Responsibilities

The ALFA Eminent Scholar Graduate Fellow is responsible for:

• research activities such as collection, identification, photography, and database management for protozoans and microinvertebrates collected from the Gulf of Mexico and freshwater habitats;
• protozoan isolation, meiofauna isolation (centrifugation), counting, histochemistry and microscopic preparation of samples as assigned;
• laboratory maintenance and cleaning, inventory, assisting with scientific articles, writing drafts, running statistical tests, and creating maps using GIS.

This position has a starting date of May 25th or August 1st, 2026 depending on the applicant’s availability.

• Bachelor’s degree in Biology or Environmental Science
• Must be a Troy University graduate student enrolled in at least half time (unconditional admission)
• Must be a thesis graduate student seeking a Master’s degree in Environmental Science or Biological Science in the ALFA scholar lab.
• Must have and maintain a 3.0 GPA

Research activities not involving travel must be performed during business hours, 8AM-5PM, Mon-Fri. The workload will be 20 hours/week.

Ability to work in streams, rivers, and lakes and under environmental extremes. Ability to work on a research vessel at sea collecting samples.

Troy University is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affimative Action employer. Troy University participates in eVerify.