C-StREAM Fellowship Program: Investigating the cHAB Microseira wollei in the Tidal Freshwater Potomac

Hosted by the Potomac Environmental Research and Education Center at George Mason University 

The Fellow will assist in on-going studies of the cHAB (cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Bloom) organism Microseira wollei which has become prominent in tidal freshwater areas of the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River. The fellow will help with fieldwork sampling areas of suspected M. wollei growth and helping map its development in the tidal Occoquan River. By assisting ongoing researchers and graduate students, the fellow will get training in field sampling, microscopy, chlorophyll and phycocyanin lab procedures, and ELISA approaches to measuring toxins. In addition to helping the existing team, the Fellow will be assigned a specific component of the research which they will be responsible for investigating with the techniques learned. A successful fellow should be able to present a poster on their work at a conference like AERS in the fall or spring.

THE FULL POSITION DESCRIPTION WILL BE POSTED SOON at https://chesapeake.org/c-stream/