BOWERBIRD SIGNAL FUNCTION AND EVOLUTION: VOLUNTEER (unpaid) field research assistant needed October-December 2014 I am looking for an experienced female field worker to help my female Ph.D. student doing field work on Great Bowerbirds, approximate dates October through to mid December 2014. (Female because the field house offers little privacy). Ideally the volunteer should have extensive experience with birds. The volunteer should also know how to drive a 4WD vehicle in easy to moderate conditions (we almost never have to shift into 4WD) and not mind living in fieldwork conditions. Duties generally involve helping to drive to bower sites, walking between bowers (up to 4km), carrying equipment and helping to check/maintain the camera equipment at bowers on a regular basis, as well as the initial set up and final taking down of the camera systems, solar panels and batteries used to run the cameras. Other duties will include sound recording, backing up video onto USB disk drives, some analysis of the video recordings collected, and helping to do two object presentation experiments. This field work takes place on a remote cattle station (Ranch in North American parlance) in Queensland, so it is hot and dry. This will involve a fair amount of walking in these conditions so the volunteer should be reasonably fit. Transportation will be provided to/from the field station from Townsville (the nearest airport). The successful applicant will have to share a simple house with the PhD student and help with the day to day aspects of fieldwork as well as cooking and keeping the house tidy. This cattle station is full of wildlife (the owners really know how to care for the land) so expect to see lots of kangaroos, emus and bustards, among other animals. It is well into the outback so internet connections are weak and absent in some days; this is not something a city-type would enjoy. If you are interested, please e-mail me directly, [email protected] John A. Endler, Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University, Australia. Prof. John A. Endler. FAA, FAAAS Alfred Deakin Professor Editor-in-Chief, Evolutionary Ecology Centre for Integrative Ecology School of Life & Environmental Sciences Deakin University, Waurn Ponds Campus 75 Pigdons Road Waurn Ponds, VIC 3216, Australia email: [email protected] tel: 03 5227 1313, or +61 3 5227 1313 mob: 0488 255 712 Deakin University CRICOS Provider Code 00113B John A. Endler
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 12:18:26 +0000
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