- Facilitate installing, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting eddy covariance systems, soil-moisture sensors, weather stations, data loggers, and related monitoring equipment.
- Support routine inspections, maintenance, and calibration records.
- Develop and implement field research across multiple cropping systems, including irrigation treatments, crop establishment, field maintenance, and data collection.
- Administer soil, weather, and crop conditions, assist with irrigation operations, and maintain accurate irrigation and field records.
- Collect soil, plant, biomass, yield, and other crop samples.
- Support crop measurements, harvest activities, sample processing, and accurate labeling and record keeping.
- Download, organize, and quality-check data from field sensors and experiments.
- Help identify data issues, maintain research databases, and support preparation of reports, tables, figures, and project documentation.
- Facilitate coordinating field activities with faculty, students, growers, and collaborators.
- Maintain field and equipment records, support training on field instruments and sampling procedures, and follow all safety requirements.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of agricultural field research, irrigation, and crop production.
- Skill in using and troubleshooting field sensors and monitoring equipment.
- Ability to support irrigation scheduling and collect soil, plant, and crop measurements.
- Skill in organizing research data and maintaining accurate field records.
- Ability to travel to research and commercial agricultural fields in Yuma and surrounding regions and to work under field conditions is required.
