Research Fellowship: A Year in the Amazon Rainforest

Conservación Amazónica – ACCA is offering a year-long research fellowship at its Los Amigos Biological Station in the lowland Amazon. Successful applicants will work as a team member with other fellows under the leadership of Dr’s Alejandro Lopera, Adrian Forsyth, and Judith Westveer. The research topics covered will include the metagenomics of blood-feeding invertebrates, hydrological controls of biodiversity, canopy arthropod ecology and many other aspects of tropical insect ecology and behavioral ecology.

Los Amigos Conservation Hub is a lowland Amazonian site with terra firme and floodplain rainforest, palm swamp, bamboo thickets and many other successional habitats and aquatic ecosystems. It supports the full megafauna of jaguars, harpy eagles, giant otters, giant armadillos, giant anteaters, anacondas, tapir, peccary, and a rich and diverse flora. There is also significant insect diversity.

This fellowship is ideal for candidates who are interested in learning natural history, with the energy and commitment to work under trying conditions. Successful candidates must want to work diligently, be willing to get rained on, muddy, bitten by mosquitoes, and fully experience what it is like to perform field biology in a hyper-diverse place.

To Apply:

To apply, please send a detailed CV and a statement of interest letter. The deadline is May 15, 2021.

Send your email with the subject line “Amazon Conservation Research Fellowship- your name” to the following addresses:

alejandro.lopera@gmail.com, adrianforsyth@gmail.com, jwestveer@conservacionamazonica.org

Applicants who do not follow these guidelines will not be considered. Only successful applicants continuing to the interview stage will be contacted.

The start date will be July 1, 2021 at Los Amigos Biological Station