Chicago Botanic Garden

Research Assistant, Lawn Alternatives

Chicago Botanic Garden

part-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Glencoe • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $17 - $19 per hour

Job Level

Junior

About the role

  • Collecting and organizing large amounts of raw data (e.g., air temperature and humidity), including creating custom R scripts to wrangle data into an analysis-ready format
  • Developing a statistical approach to assess the relationship between lawn alternative plantings and air temperature to understand cooling capacity of different plantings
  • Creating figures to effectively visualize results
  • Writing a manuscript draft that effectively communicates the results of the study
  • Meeting every two weeks with supervisor to discuss progress
  • Depending on their interests, research assistants will be able to expand their work into independent research projects and, if interested, attend/present at conferences

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, including but not limited to ecology, environmental sciences, biology, geography, or plant science
  • At least one year of experience conducting field work and analyzing data obtained from field experiments preferred
  • Plant/insect identification skills, and ability to use keys to identify species preferred.
  • Comfortable traveling to neighborhoods throughout Chicago and being outdoors in public urban spaces
  • Experience using programs such as Excel for entering and storing data, and statistical analysis software such as R preferred.
Benefits
  • Wellness initiative benefit
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Retirement plan
  • Garden membership - free to employees at Household Plus level
  • Discounts to Garden Shop, Cafe, Garden-sponsored educational classes
  • Employee events such as Orchid show, Night of 1,000 Jack-o'-Lanterns, Lightscape employee & friends preview night

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Hard skills
Rdata wranglingstatistical analysisdata visualizationmanuscript writingfield workplant identificationinsect identification
Soft skills
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