Agricultural Research Technician – Colby, KS (Electronics and Field Instrumentation)

Posted: Wednesday, March 4, 2020

Department: 3670010210 NW Research Ext Center Colby

Job no: 508969

Work type: Staff Full Time (Unclassified - Term)

Location: Colby, Kansas

Categories: Agriculture, Research / Scientific / Grants, Crop Production, Agronomy

Pay Grade: 04B

About This Role:
The Northwest Extension Agronomy program at the Kansas State University Northwest Research-Extension Center at Colby, Kansas is looking for a Research Technician. The successful candidate will take a lead role in the execution of a 3-year project utilizing cutting-edge scientific instruments to quantify processes in a producer field of grain sorghum. This project will measure soil water, plant growth, and CO2, water vapor, and carbon fluxes at a very fine scale. This position will have responsibility for assisting in the installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of electronic equipment, will have responsibility for conducting daily QA/QC of collected data, and will have responsibility for in-field sampling campaigns of both plant and soil properties.

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