Temporary Summer Research Assistant - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology
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About The Position
The Moeller Lab at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is looking for a research assistant for summer 2025 to help with data collected in a large remote-sensing study on terrestrial invasive plants in the Upper Midwest. The invasive species research group in the Moeller Lab studies the biogeography, ecology, and evolution of invasive plants in the Upper Midwest to try and better predict invasion risk, especially in the face of global climate change. We are currently working on a project on environmental factors that influence the population growth and range expansion of the invasive species leafy spurge. In the project, we use deep learning models to detect populations from satellite imagery and further modeling to determine what environmental factors influence its relative success. In this project, the assistant will help us lead the collection of additional data on population occurrences to help validate deep learning detection models.
