12 Month position – Starting Late August/September 2025

Posting# 062225-02

Application Deadline: July 6, 2025

Apply via email to: employment@southamptonschools.org

Responsibilities:

● Manage a 5000-gallon marine wet lab in a high school housing over 50 species of marine vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants

● Maintain optimal husbandry practices for all organisms in the wet lab

○ Appropriate feeding practices

○ Maintain proper water chemistry on all systems

○ Diagnose and treat marine diseases on fish and invertebrates

● Culture phytoplankton and zooplankton

● Maintain all life support equipment including reactors, pumps, chillers, and protein skimmers

● Upgrading and modifying existing systems to meet the needs and interests of the students

● Aquaculture marine ornamental fish, shellfish, jellyfish, and corals

● Possess knowledge of husbandry practices for cephalopods

● Assist classroom teachers with hands-on learning exercises and labs

○ Introduce students to life support and animal care

● Assist research students with developing and conducting independent research projects with organisms in the lab

● Manage the wet lab budget

○ Ordering, receiving, and keeping organized records