Open Positions

Reach out to Ben Koger at bkoger@uwyo.edu for general inquiries about joining the lab. Please see below for current active job listings.

Ph.D. student

While there is currently no offical posting, I will soon be actively recruiting a Ph.D. student. Please get in contact if you might be interested in hearing more about potential projects or would like to discuss ideas of your own.

Postdoc

There is currently an open postdoc position to join the lab’s work on Pacific salmon.

Please use the following link to see the full posting and to apply. Don’t hesitate to reach out for more information.

From the listing:

“The prospective postdoc will join a research program centered on Pacific salmon ecosystems in the Bristol Bay watershed of Alaska in close collaboration with Dr. Andrew Berdahl at University of Washington and Dr. Albert Kao at UMass Boston. Possible specific projects include 1) salmon sensing and navigation from the individual to the collective level at stream confluences during migration; 2) hunting and collective evasion dynamics during brown bear hunts of nesting salmon; 3) ecosystem scale description of salmon and bear landscape use over the nesting season from individuals to populations; 4) building ML powered pipelines for efficient image processing. The successful applicant will have a strong interest in either the biological questions or the imaging methods but preferably both.”