Find postings for currently available 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 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. See details below. 

General Information about Joining the Webster Lab
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In general, Webster Lab members will use a combination of field work, lab work, and data analytics to investigate how aridity, wildfire, and water/land use are modifying ecosystem's elemental cycles and hydrology. We use this information to anticipate changes to clean drinking water 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 alpine 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 as part of your graduate training 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 the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Albuquerque is is an affordable, diverse, culturally vibrant 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 (awebster2@unm.edu) 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, volunteer work, etc.). Please provide a cv or resume and transcripts (unofficial is fine); 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
Admissions requirements: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/admissions-requirements.html
The application process: https://biology.unm.edu/graduate/application-process.html