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December 2025
Communication and Outreach Support Specialist
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary – CHNMS)
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Deadline: December 22, 2025 (applications received by this date preferred)
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Marine Research Scientist
National Marine Sanctuary Foundation (Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary – CHNMS)
Location: San Luis Obispo, CA, USA
Deadline: December 22, 2025 (applications received by this date preferred)
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Postdoctoral Researcher – FishMIP Ocean System Pathways (OSPs)
FRB–CESAB (Foundation for Biodiversity Research – Centre for Synthesis and Analysis of Biodiversity)
Location: Montpellier, France
Deadline: December 31, 2025
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AIMEC Postdoctoral Researcher
Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC) – Tohoku University & JAMSTEC
Location: Sendai (Tohoku University) or Yokohama (JAMSTEC), Japan
Deadline: December 21, 2025
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Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences
School of Marine and Environmental Programs (SMEP) – University of New England
Location: Biddeford, ME
Deadline: Open until filled (review begins December 1, 2025)
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Ichthyology)
LSU Museum of Natural Science – Louisiana State University
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Desired Start: December 5 (review begins)
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PhD Student: Bird Communities, Scavengers, and Disease Ecology & Evolution
CHANS Lab, IRES, UBC
Location: Vancouver, BC
Deadline: December 15, 2025
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Open-Rank Faculty Position in Marine Ecology and Conservation
Florida International University
Location: Miami, FL USA
Deadline: December 18, 2025
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Climate-Ocean and Coastal Law & Policy Research Specialist
Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI)
Location: Portland, ME (USA)
Desired Start: December 20, 2025
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AIMEC Postdoctoral Researcher
Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (WPI-AIMEC),
Tohoku University and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)
Location: Tohoku University, Aobayama Campus, 6-3, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, JAPAN
OR: JAMSTEC Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences (YES), 3173-25, Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0001, JAPAN
Deadline: December 21, 2025 at 23:59 in Japan time
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January 2026
Postdoctoral Scholar – Fisheries Acoustics
Fisheries Collaborative Program (FCP), Institute of Marine Sciences
Location: La Jolla, CA, USA
Deadline: January 15, 2026
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Assistant Professor – Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling
University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Location: Manoa, Hawai’i
Deadline: Review starts January 9, 2026
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Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellowship (2 positions)
UBC Biodiversity Research Centre
Location: Vancouver, BC
Deadline: 11:59PM on Thursday January 15, 2026
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Postdoctoral Researcher
The University of California Santa Barbara
Location: Santa Barbara, CA
Desired Start: January (anticipated but negotiable)
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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Aquatic Ecotoxicology
College of Marine Science – University of South Florida
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Deadline: Open until filled (priority review begins January 3, 2026)
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PhD: Changing Ecological Role of Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas
ExaGEO Doctoral Landscape – Lancaster University (with University of Glasgow & Dalhousie University)
Location: Lancaster, UK (open to international applicants)
Deadline: January 9, 2026
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March 2026
Stock Assessment Technician – Entry Level
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Location: Kamloops, British Columbia
Deadline: March 31, 2026; early screening December 2025–January 2026
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Stock Assessment Technician II – Field Supervisor (Inventory)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Location: Kamloops, British Columbia
Deadline: March 31, 2026; early screening December 2025–January 2026
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Stock Assessment Technician III – Crew Supervisor (Data Focus) (Inventory)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Location: Kamloops, British Columbia
Deadline: March 31, 2026; early screening December 2025–January 2026
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April 2026
Postdoctoral Research Associate – Scaling Up Tropical Marine Ecosystem Restoration
Project ENTERPRISE – Lancaster University
Location: Lancaster, UK
Desired Start: April 2026
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Postdoctoral Research Associate – Quantifying Corporate Environmental Restoration Impacts
Project ENTERPRISE – Lancaster University
Location: Lancaster, UK
Desired Start: April 2026
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Environmental Biomolecular Engineer (Research Technician)
Doerr School of Sustainability – Stanford University
Location: Stanford, USA
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Postdoc in Coral Evolutionary Genomics
Florida Atlantic University, USA
Contact Steve Vollmer at svollmer@fau.edu
PhD Scholarship in Coral Reef Biology [2 available]
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Initial enquiries should be directed to Prof. Simon Davy at simon.davy@vuw.ac.nz
PhD studentship on coral biomineralisation
University of St Andrews, UK
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Program Specialist
Lake Champlain Sea Grant
Location: Burlington, Vermont
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Conservation Campaigner
CPAWS
Location: Vancouver (Flexible for remote work within BC)
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Program Manager
Conservation International, Centre for Oceans
Location: Seattle, WA
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Senior Marine Biologist
Stantec
Location: British Columbia
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Postdoc in Nature Based Solutions
University of Florida, Altieri Lab
Location: Gainesville, FL & Panama
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Research Technician- Ocean Acidification Program
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Location: Sarasota, FL
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Eminent Scholar in Ocean Technology
Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Location: Sarasota, FL
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PhD- Assessing demographic resilience of tropical and temperate reef organisms
University of Leeds- The School of Biology
Location: Leeds, England
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REEF RESTORATION POST-DOCTORAL ASSOCIATE
University of Miami- Lirman Lab
Location: Key Biscayne, FL
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PhD- Assessing demographic resilience of tropical and temperate reef organisms
Leeds University- School of Biology
Location: Leeds, England
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Chair Professor/Professor/Associate Professor/Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong
Location: Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
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Faculty Research Assistant
Oregon State University
Location: Newport, OR
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Researcher (2)
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Postdoctoral Research Program)
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Postdoctoral Researcher – Marine Science & Policy (Ocean Acoustics & Optics)
University of Delaware
Location: Lewes, Delaware (significant time at NASA Langley, Hampton, VA)
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Postdoctoral Associate – Fisheries Hydroacoustics (Great Lakes)
Cornell University
Location: Ithaca, New York (fieldwork on the Laurentian Great Lakes; collaboration with USGS)
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