Notes about this page:
- Find postings for currently available undergraduate, graduate, and staff positions below.
- Find general information about working in the Webster Lab and living in Albuquerque, New Mexico below that.
- If you are interested in joining the lab and no appropriate positions are currently advertised, you are welcome to email to Dr. Webster expressing your interest. Please provide detailed information about your interest and background in your email.
Current position openings
None.
General information about joining the Webster Lab
Webster Lab members use a combination of field work, lab work, and data analytics to investigate how aridity, wildfire, and water/land use are modifying the elemental cycles and hydrology of ecosystems. We use this information to anticipate changes to clean drinking water, carbon cycling, and other ecosystem functions and to understand and improve interactions between humans and the environment. Projects are embedded in interdisciplinary frameworks and collaborations that will extend your work to apply to larger questions of sustainability and resilience of social-ecological systems across the US. Current projects may take place in mountainous forested watersheds, the Rio Grande and its floodplain forest, and/or at the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Station (https://sevlter.unm.edu/). Opportunities to work on topics in equity-focused biology education are also available through Dr. Webster's organization Project Biodiversify (https://projectbiodiversify.org/).
Those interested in joining the Webster Lab should have experience or a strong willingness to learn the following skills: programming and statistics in R (all candidates), scientific writing (all candidates), field work including hiking long distances and carrying heavy equipment (some candidates according to interest/ability), running high-tech environmental sensors (some candidates), running analytical lab equipment (some candidates), other lab work (all candidates). In addition, they will have strong communication and organization skills, scientific curiosity and enthusiasm, a commitment to contributing to an inclusive and equity-focused culture in the lab and department, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Albuquerque is is an affordable, diverse, culturally vibrant mid-sized city with excellent access to the region's beautiful rivers, forests, mountains, deserts, and communities. The University of New Mexico is New Mexico's flagship R1 research university and is proud to be a Minority Serving Institution.
To enquire about joining the lab, email Dr. Alex Webster ([email protected]) with a short description of yourself and your interests, including whether you are applying to a current posting or otherwise seeking an MSc, PhD, postdoc, staff position, part-time work, volunteer work, etc. Please provide a CV or resume and transcripts (unofficial is fine) if available, but please do not let these requested documents get in the way of reaching out if you are interested in and motivated to join the lab.
For more information, please see:
UNM Biology's website: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/index.html
Graduate admissions requirements: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/admissions-requirements.html
Graduate application process: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/application-process.html
None.
General information about joining the Webster Lab
Webster Lab members use a combination of field work, lab work, and data analytics to investigate how aridity, wildfire, and water/land use are modifying the elemental cycles and hydrology of ecosystems. We use this information to anticipate changes to clean drinking water, carbon cycling, and other ecosystem functions and to understand and improve interactions between humans and the environment. Projects are embedded in interdisciplinary frameworks and collaborations that will extend your work to apply to larger questions of sustainability and resilience of social-ecological systems across the US. Current projects may take place in mountainous forested watersheds, the Rio Grande and its floodplain forest, and/or at the Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Station (https://sevlter.unm.edu/). Opportunities to work on topics in equity-focused biology education are also available through Dr. Webster's organization Project Biodiversify (https://projectbiodiversify.org/).
Those interested in joining the Webster Lab should have experience or a strong willingness to learn the following skills: programming and statistics in R (all candidates), scientific writing (all candidates), field work including hiking long distances and carrying heavy equipment (some candidates according to interest/ability), running high-tech environmental sensors (some candidates), running analytical lab equipment (some candidates), other lab work (all candidates). In addition, they will have strong communication and organization skills, scientific curiosity and enthusiasm, a commitment to contributing to an inclusive and equity-focused culture in the lab and department, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Albuquerque is is an affordable, diverse, culturally vibrant mid-sized city with excellent access to the region's beautiful rivers, forests, mountains, deserts, and communities. The University of New Mexico is New Mexico's flagship R1 research university and is proud to be a Minority Serving Institution.
To enquire about joining the lab, email Dr. Alex Webster ([email protected]) with a short description of yourself and your interests, including whether you are applying to a current posting or otherwise seeking an MSc, PhD, postdoc, staff position, part-time work, volunteer work, etc. Please provide a CV or resume and transcripts (unofficial is fine) if available, but please do not let these requested documents get in the way of reaching out if you are interested in and motivated to join the lab.
For more information, please see:
UNM Biology's website: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/index.html
Graduate admissions requirements: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/admissions-requirements.html
Graduate application process: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/application-process.html
