Insect Agroecology Lab
@ University of California Riverside!
Welcome!
We study the interactions between insects and soil health to understand how sustainable management practices like cover crops, reducing tillage, and integrating animals into cropping systems can affect arthropod pests, their host plants, and their predators.
​
-
We are studying dung beetles to better understand what communities we have on livestock farms and how anti-parasite products may affect them.
-
We grow organic field crops to understand the effects of manure management programs on pests.
-
We are interested in the effect of cover crops on vegetable pest management.
-
We are exploring new project ideas at UCR!
​
The Rowen Lab wants you!
We are hiring a full-time Junior Specialist I.
The job will include supporting research with dung beetles, soil mesofauna, and sustainable agriculture. Projects will be highly collaborative with students, staff scientists, and the PI. You will be responsible for maintaining chemical hygiene, lab safety, and work on supporting most of the projects in the lab. The position will involve field work, possibly overnight trips. t interaction experiments
Requirements: Bachelor’s degree completed by January 2026, must be able to work in person in Riverside CA.
​
Application: Please submit to Elizabeth Rowen, via email, your CV, a 1-page cover letter with a description of your field and lab experience, and the contact information for two references by Dec 1. We will interview candidates the first week of December.
​
If you are interested or have questions, or wish to apply, please email Elizabeth Rowen erowen@ucr.edu
​
Please highlight any of the following in your application: ​
-
Experience identifying dung beetles and other soil-associated insects
-
Experience handling and using chemicals in a lab setting
-
Experience working in the field, particularly around cows and other livestock
-
Experience growing and maintaining plants for plant-insec
I'm a paragraph. Click here to add your own text and edit me. It's easy.