Jon Puritz

@jonpuritz.marineevoeco.com

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Associate Professor at the University of Rhode Island. Interested in human impacts on the evolution of marine populations. BS Brown ‘05. PhD UH Mānoa ‘11. [he,his,him]. #oysters #seastars #MarineEvolutionaryEcology #Genomics #Bioinformatics

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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. The Department of Biological Sciences in the College of the Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) at the University of Rhode Island (URI) invites applications for an academic year (9 month), tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Marine Ecology. URI, the top public university in New England, is a land and sea grant research university located in Kingston, Rhode Island, a beautiful seaside community that is well connected by car, bus, and rail about 40 min from Providence, an hour from Boston and 3 hours from New York City.
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