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 Full-time Technician II (R-059859). </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">12-month appointment renewed annually based on funds availability and performance. Competitive
 salary with benefits.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:none windowtext 0in;padding:0in"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES" class="ContentPasted0">Lab supervisor:</span></b><span lang="ES" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1;background:white;mso-ansi-language:ES" class="ContentPasted0">
 Dr. Nuria Gomez-Casanovas<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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 regenerative farming, e</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">nvironmental sustainability, biogeochemistry</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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Gomez-Casanovas Lab</a> seeks a highly motivated full-time Technician II with interests in
<strong><span style="font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="ContentPasted0">improving the environmental and ecological sustainability of agricultural land</span></strong><b class="ContentPasted0">.</b></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">
 Responsibilities will include evaluating, selecting, and applying state-of-the-art scientific and engineering techniques and methods used in research both in the field and laboratory.
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<span style="color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">The Lab combines novel lab, field and modeling experiments in a holistic way to advance science at the nexus of Food, Energy and Environmental Security. The successful candidate will have
 the opportunity to join a multidisciplinary team with collaborations with leading experts in more than 20 institutions across the US and Europe, and contribute to find answers to one of today’s grand challenges:
</span><span style="color:black" class="ContentPasted0">How can we sustainably meet the demand for plant biomass to provide sufficient food, feed and energy with an increasing global population of 11 billion people while improving the resilience and sustainability
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">-Independently pursues an assigned series of processes, procedures, or area of research
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-Constructs, modifies, adapts, assembles, and operates scientific and laboratory procedures and equipment<br class="ContentPasted0">
-Uses computer equipment for controlling equipment and compiling data<br class="ContentPasted0">
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">Applicants should upload</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1" class="ContentPasted0">
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