Dear colleagues, Through our cooperative partnership with the University of Miami, the NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center's Marine Mammal Branch in Miami, FL is looking to hire *three new positions* to join our growing passive acoustics team. The SEFSC’s Passive Acoustics Ecology Program conducts research in the Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean, and Caribbean, using innovative passive acoustic technologies to improve assessment and understanding of marine mammals and human-produced sounds that may impact them, to aid in management, monitoring, and conservation efforts. We seek two full-time Marine Mammal Acousticians, at either the Research Associate 2 or Senior Research Associate 1 level, with expertise in passive acoustic data collection and analysis. The Marine Mammal Acousticians will assist in collection and analysis of acoustic data recordings to detect North Atlantic right whale calls and sounds from other marine mammals and human noise sources. To apply, these positions can be found on the University of Miami job site (www.miami.edu/careers). The Senior Research Associate 1 position is posted as requisition R100078543 <https://careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100078543/Senior-Research-Associate-I>. The Research Associate 2 position is posted as requisition R100078544 <https://careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100078544/Research-Associate-II>. We seek one full-time Research Associate 2 with expertise in data science and data management to join our team as an Acoustic Data Manager. This position will provide data management and quality control for managing and migrating large acoustic recording data collections to the cloud and preparing metadata and summary outputs to support a national passive acoustic decision support tool for marine mammal management. To apply, the Research Associate 2 Acoustic Data Manager position can be found on the University of Miami job site (www.miami.edu/careers) as requisition R100078545 <https://careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R100078545/Research-Associate-II>. Please share this info with any potential applicants and feel free to contact me at melissa.soldevilla@noaa.gov with any questions. Best wishes, Melissa ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Melissa Soldevilla, PhD Research Fishery Biologist Marine Mammal & Turtle Division NOAA Southeast Fisheries Science Center 75 Virginia Beach Drive Miami, FL 33149