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Hourly Research Assistant – Prescribed Fire & Smoke Exposure Modeling
Colorado State University
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Fort Collins, United States
Location
Fort Collins
Posted
June 27, 2026
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Job Description
**Job Description**
**Position Summary:**
The Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks a part-time hourly Research Assistant (student or non-student) to support the SOGES-funded ECO-FIRE project, which develops an integrated modeling framework to quantify the air quality, public health, and environmental equity trade-offs between wildfires and prescribed fires.
**Full Consideration Date:** 6/30/2026
**Brief Work Unit Description:**
https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/
**Essential Job Duties** **:**
+ Develop and evaluate optimized prescribed-fire ignition methods, techniques, and pattern designs in collaboration with project partners.
+ Conduct smoke exposure analysis and investigate how ignition pattern design affects downwind smoke exposure outcomes.
+ Develop and maintain Python-based data processing and analysis workflows, using high-performance computing resources where applicable, and document methods to ensur...
**Position Summary:**
The Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks a part-time hourly Research Assistant (student or non-student) to support the SOGES-funded ECO-FIRE project, which develops an integrated modeling framework to quantify the air quality, public health, and environmental equity trade-offs between wildfires and prescribed fires.
**Full Consideration Date:** 6/30/2026
**Brief Work Unit Description:**
https://www.engr.colostate.edu/me/
**Essential Job Duties** **:**
+ Develop and evaluate optimized prescribed-fire ignition methods, techniques, and pattern designs in collaboration with project partners.
+ Conduct smoke exposure analysis and investigate how ignition pattern design affects downwind smoke exposure outcomes.
+ Develop and maintain Python-based data processing and analysis workflows, using high-performance computing resources where applicable, and document methods to ensur...