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Job Opening: DFWI Research Specialist/Sr. Research Specialist

Posted August 21, 2026

Description: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is seeking to hire a motivated full-time Research Specialist or Senior Research Specialist working on The Jefferson Project at Lake George. The Jefferson Project is a multi-disciplinary collaboration founded as a partnership between RPI, IBM, and the Lake George Association that brings a sophisticated technological approach to studying freshwater ecosystems. A central goal of the Project is to understand the impact of human activity on fresh water and how to mitigate those effects.

RPI Collaborates on First-of-its-Kind Research Study to Keep New York Lakes Healthy

Posted October 21, 2025
RPI professor and freshwater ecology expert Kevin Rose, Ph.D., in collaboration with other researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), the Lake George Association (LGA), and Paul Smith’s College, conducted the first ever long-term study on the environmental effects of the aquatic herbicide florpyrauxifen-benzyl (FPB), also known as ProcellaCOR.

AAAS Honors Researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea

Posted January 26, 2022
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society, has elected Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute researchers Georges Belfort, Nikhil Koratkar, and Rick Relyea to the newest class of AAAS fellows, among the most distinct honors within the scientific community.

Rensselaer Scholars To Build and Test Prototype To Monitor Water Quality for Nitrogen

Posted January 12, 2022
A grant from the National Science Foundation will allow Shayla Sawyer, a professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Rick Relyea, a professor of biological sciences at Rensselaer, to better understand the growing problem of harmful algal blooms (HABs).
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