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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:13pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Herbarium Digitization Technician, University of
California, Santa Barbara <span></span></span></u></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Summary of position and responsibilities: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) at UC Santa
Barbara is seeking applicants for an Herbarium Digitization Technician at the
UCSB Herbarium. The UCSB Natural History Collections—including the UCSB
Herbarium—comprise nearly a half million specimens that are housed at CCBER.
The Technician will focus on digitizing the Herbarium’s newly organized
collection: “Seaweeds of the Pacific Coast of North America.” Most of our
specimens are from the central California coast and Channel Islands region,
making them an excellent resource to understand macroalgal diversity in the Point
Conception area, a major biogeographic break on the Pacific Coast. Digital data
freely provided by the Cheadle Center is heavily utilized by researchers around
the world, and this position supports our mission of education, research, and
ecological restoration (<a href="https://ccber.ucsb.edu/">https://ccber.ucsb.edu/</a>).<b><span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Under supervision of the Collection Manager, the Technician
will be responsible for the digitization of ca. 10,000 seaweed specimens, which
includes a variety of activities such as barcoding, imaging, transcribing
specimen labels, and georeferencing the specimens in our online Macroalgal
Portal database. Other duties include recruiting, training, and supervising
UCSB student interns and community volunteers to assist with the digitization
effort, both on-site and remotely; assessing quality of digitized records; managing
the images and digital records of the collection; assisting with teaching an
undergraduate course “Introduction to Curation of Natural History Collections”
twice a year; assisting with herbarium pest management; seeking expert
taxonomic identification of specimens; and assisting with the planning and
implementation of two workshops on California seaweed identification. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The Technician will advance the digitization of an important
herbarium collection, which includes some of the earliest seaweed specimens
collected in California. This position is well suited for a detail- and
goal-oriented person who enjoys outreach with interns and the general public
and providing open-access biodiversity data to enable research and education.
We also seek a candidate who is eager to meet the challenges of the pandemic
and who will persevere in the face of a rapidly changing work environment. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">In response to the public health crisis due to the coronavirus
pandemic, the position will require the Technician to adapt, develop, and
maintain safe working conditions in the Herbarium as a top priority. Work will
be carried out by the Technician in isolated workspaces to maximize safety, and
the Technician will train interns and volunteers across secure glass barriers that
separate the Herbarium and offices from workspaces in the building. The
incumbent will work closely with CCBER staff, representatives of the UCSB
campus, and others to ensure proper implementation of safety measures, as well
as assist with developing new work procedures that meet or exceed State and
Campus safety requirements.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">The incumbent will have the opportunity for career development
in natural history collections, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics through
mentorship by CCBER scientists, curators, and visiting researchers and by
attending training workshops. The Technician will be encouraged to engage in
scholarly activities such as participating and organizing public workshops and
digitization events, co-teaching courses on natural history collections,
writing grant proposals to support UCSB student interns and volunteers,
disseminating findings at seminars and conferences, and interacting with UCSB
faculty and students.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">This full-time position is funded for two years as part of an
Institute of Museum and Library Services project at the Cheadle Center. It is
anticipated that up to 100% of the work will be performed at the Herbarium on
the UCSB Campus, but this may change to a mix of remote and on-site work, given
the uncertainties surrounding the health crisis. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Minimum requirements: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Graduation
from high school or a General Education Diploma or two years of college
including courses in the natural, physical or social sciences and at least two
years’ experience curating specimens in an herbarium or natural history museum
setting, including experience with, filing, imaging, digitizing, and
georeferencing specimens; working with biodiversity databases, including label
transcription and georeferencing; basic familiarity with biological
classification, nomenclature, and taxonomy; excellent organizational skills;
demonstrated ability for productivity and accuracy; and a willingness to
innovate and to seek solutions to the many logistical problems presented by the
pandemic health crisis. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">Desirable qualifications: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Cambria",serif">A
bachelor’s or master’s degree in natural, physical or social sciences or museum
studies and a basic familiarity with California seaweeds.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Job ID: 12710<span></span></p>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span><span>__________________________________________________</span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span><span>______<br></span></span></span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"></span></font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Gregory A. Wahlert, Ph.D.<br>Shirley Tucker Curator of Biodiversity Collections and Botanical Research<br></span></font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);float:none;display:inline"></span>Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration<br>Harder South, Bldg. 578, Room 1009<br>University of California, Santa Barbara<br>Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:wahlert@ccber.ucsb.edu" target="_blank">wahlert@ccber.ucsb.edu</a>; <a href="mailto:rinorea@gmail.com" target="_blank">rinorea@gmail.com</a>; skype: gregory.wahlert<br>office phone: </span></font><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">
(805) 893-2401; cell: (805) 294-8685</span><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span><span></span></span></span></font></span></span></font><span><br>________________________________________________________</span></span></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>