The UW-NPS Research Station in Grand Teton National Park is hiring a Station Manager. This full-time position as the resident manager will be responsible for daily operations, including overseeing guests and visitors, hiring and managing seasonal staff, facilitating research, courses, and outreach events and interfacing with the National Park Service and other partners. Housing is provided on the shores of Jackson Lake at the historic AMK Ranch. Candidates with an advanced degree in a field of relevance to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with previous experience at field stations, with facilities and managerial experience, and with a demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace are preferred.
The position is open until filled with a preferred start date of May 15.
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Are you an undergraduate student or recent grad with a passion for working outdoors and supporting cutting-edge research? Applications are now open for two seasonal summer staff positions at the UW-NPS Research Station!
Housing and summer salary is provided. Responsibilities include checking guests in and out, setting up for seminars, and assisting with field work conducted by researchers when needed. As an added benefit, summer staff have opportunities to pursue their own research at the station!
for more detailed info and to apply. We will begin reviewing applications on March 27.
If you’ve been meaning to submit a housing request for the 2023 season, now is the time to do it! For the best chance of getting housing on your preferred dates, submit your housing application by the end of day, March 3.
All applications submitted through March 3 will be included in our first round of scheduling. We will review these requests and schedule them based on the priorities listed at the top of the application page.
Housing availability will be reduced to the remaining spaces after this initial round of placements. As a result, individuals who submit their applications after March 3rd will be less likely to get their preferred dates.
We look forward to having researchers back for the 2023 season!
Two Human Dimensions of Resources internship positions jointly supported by GTNP and UW-NPS are available in 2023. Interns will work directly with park personnel and will be housed within the park. Applications are due by 5:00pm (MST) on March 1, 2023. For more information, see the 2023 Summer Resources Internship Announcement, or view the full announcement below.
UW-NPS Research Station announces the 2023 Small Grants RFP.
Please share with those who might be interested.
The Small Grants program is funded by the National Park Service and the UW-NPS Research Station at the University of Wyoming. It is limited to US academic institutions, government, and NGO researchers conducting their studies in the Greater Yellowstone Area. See uwnps.org/grants for more information, a list of past awards, and a link to annual reports of research going back to 1954.
Grants will be evaluated by a panel of park personnel and faculty in diverse fields based on intellectual merit (will the study advance our understanding in some key way), and relevance to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. We welcome proposals that address Grand Teton National Park research priorities and Yellowstone National Park research priorities, but that is not necessarily a requirement for funding.
We encourage grant submissions by and/or for graduate student research support as these small grants can be a vital source of support for students working in the GYE.
Tribes, Treaties and National Parks Harlow Speaker Series Special Event with Lunch Speaker: Dr. Tarissa Spoonhunter, University of Wyoming Haub School Time: Wednesday, Sept 21st, noon-2 pm. Talk beginning at 12:45 pm Location: UW-NPS Berol Lodge, and on Zoom (the link and password will be available through our email list. If you haven’t already, be sure to join our emailing list!) Lunch available to the first 40 participants
Tarissa Spoonhunter, the new director of the High Plains American Indian Research Institute at the University of Wyoming, is the featured speaker for the Harlow Speaker Series event Wednesday, Sept. 21, at the renovated University of Wyoming-National Park Service (UW-NPS) Research Station. The facility is located at the AMK Ranch in Grand Teton National Park.
The free event is from noon-2 p.m. in the Berol Lodge. Spoonhunter will present “Tribes, Treaties and National Parks” beginning at 12:45 p.m. She will speak about her research on the long-term relationships that Native American tribes have with national park lands, and how treaties and other policies have shaped those relationships since the lands were designated as parks by the U.S. government.
Spoonhunter, also an assistant professor in the UW Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, focuses her work on sharing knowledge with other races and nationalities to build relationships to increase understanding — something that resides deep in her roots growing up on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. At age nine, her people gave her the name Medicine Beaver Woman, a name she remembers feeling came with a great deal of responsibility and underscores the dedication she brings to her work at UW.
A light lunch will be provided for the first 40 attendees. The talk also will be available via Zoom.
The event will mark the beginning of a National Science Foundation-funded workshop at the AMK involving over 20 UW faculty, that is related to the new WyACT: Wyoming Anticipating Climate Transitions project aimed at anticipating future climate and water changes. The event presents an opportunity for visitors to meet and talk with UW researchers covering a wide range of areas from ecology and hydrology to park-related social science.
The UW-NPS Research Station provides a base for university faculty members and government scientists from throughout North America to conduct research in the diverse aquatic and terrestrial environments of Grand Teton National Park and the greater Yellowstone area. Formerly called the AMK Ranch Talk Series, the Harlow Summer Seminars program is named after retired UW Department of Zoology and Physiology Professor Hank Harlow, who helped make the UW-NPS Research Station a significant center for research and community outreach. Harlow began the popular weekly public seminars during the summer months.
If you missed our special seminar on August 31st, or if you’d like to watch it again and share it with friends and colleagues, we now have it available to watch on the WyoScholar Digital Repository! You can view Dr. Bryan Shuman’s seminar here.
Lunch and Science at the UW-NPS Research Station at the AMK Ranch, in the Berol Lodge
Noon-2 pm, Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Public talk: Imagining the future of the Tetons, Dr. Bryan Shuman, current station director, UW Department of Geology & Geophysics
A new research initiative at the UW-NPS Research Station, funded by the National Science Foundation, will focus on anticipating the future of the Teton landscape and how declining snowpack, increased drought and fire risk, and other changes will impact the ecosystem and the people connected to it.
Join us for a light lunch and a presentation about the science of imagining the future of the Tetons in the Berol Lodge at noon on Wednesday, August 31st. The public is invited to attend and tour the research station grounds along Jackson Lake after the talk.
We are searching for a facilities manager to join our team! The facilities manager will oversee day-to-day management of the physical facility, including management of summer staff. For more information and to apply, please visit
