The Echinacea Project is recruiting 1-2 enthusiastic K-12 or community college educators for a paid professional development opportunity researching tallgrass prairie during the 2025 summer field season. Teachers will be a part of a diverse science team including professors, teachers, and students (undergraduate, graduate students, and high school). Team Echinacea investigates ecology and evolution in fragmented prairie habitat in western Minnesota, focusing on a model organism, the purple coneflower, *Echinacea angustifolia*. As an NSF-funded RET (Research Experiences for Teachers) participant, you will gain hands-on experience, collect experimental data, generate hypotheses, develop your own research project, and design a plan to bring scientific concepts and methods into your classroom.
- Location: western Minnesota - Duration: up to 10 weeks during June-August - Applications due 5 January 2025 Learn more and apply at: Teacher Researcher on The Echinacea Project <https://echinaceaproject.org/opportunities/teacher-researcher/> Best, Maddie (She/They) on behalf of Team Echinacea echinaceaProject.org <http://echinaceaproject.org/> *To reach our scientific, conservation, and educational goals, the Echinacea Project strives to build a diverse and collaborative team committed to learning, inclusivity, and anti-racism. We welcome and encourage individuals from groups historically excluded from sciences and conservation.* To unsubscribe from this list please go to https://community.esa.org/confirm/?u=RhPWqPxFwODKvbkiT32nkIqRrsiSgulp
