Job Description: Assist one of the leading rangeland scientists in the world, Dr. Kirk Davies, conducting vegetation ecology research in sagebrush steppe in the northern Great Basin. Projects include: determining interactions between livestock grazing and fire risk, investigating the effects of prescribed burning on wildlife habitat, evaluating the impacts of invasive plant infestations on sage-grouse habitat, determining landscape-scale vegetation patterns, investigating management and climate influence on vegetation characteristics and sage-grouse habitat, evaluating methods to contain and prevent invasive plant infestations, and investigating methods to shift succession to desired plant communities.  Duties include vegetation and environmental data collection, processing vegetation and soil samples, establishment and maintenance of research plots, and data entry. Duties may also include assisting in laboratory work. The workweek is typically 40 hours, Monday-Thursday. Travel throughout eastern Oregon and northern Nevada is required. Some weeks will involve camping.