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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center"><b>Post-Doctoral Researcher Position Available</b></div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center"><b>USDA-NRCS: Deciphering Diversity for Landowners</b></div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center"><b>South Dakota State University</b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">A new position for a postdoctoral research associate is available with the Native Plant Initiative at South</div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">Dakota State University (SDSU). This position is part of a collaboration among the SDSU Native Plant</div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">Initiative, The Nature Conservancy, and the U.S. Geological Survey with funding from and in</div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">collaboration with the USDA-NRCS. The project will use experimental plots at Oak Lake Field Station (26</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center"><b>USDA-NRCS: Deciphering Diversity for Landowners</b></div>
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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">One funded Masters graduate research position is available beginning in Spring semester 2022 in the</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center"><b>heath, and stakeholder engagement and education</b>.</div>
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<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">This graduate position is part of a collaboration among the SDSU Native Plant Initiative, The Nature</div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">Conservancy, and the U.S. Geological Survey with funding from USDA-NRCS. Overall project objectives</div>
<div style="margin:0px; text-align:center">include<span> </span><b>multidimensional assessment of biodiversity, soil health, pollinator response, and development <br>
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<div style="font-family:arial,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:small; margin:0px">703.648.4385 <a href="mailto:esellers@usgs.gov" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">esellers@usgs.gov</a></div>
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