The Project: The South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and the Department of Forestry and Environmental Conservation at Clemson University seek to employ a PostDoctoral Research Associate to conduct research on the ecology of seabirds in the Gulf of Mexico. As part of the Gulf of Mexico Marine Assessment Program for Protected Species (GoMMAPPS;https://www.boem.gov/gommapps/), our lab is conducting vessel-based surveys of seabirds throughout the northern Gulf with the intent of modeling distribution, abundance, and habitat use. Data collection was initiated in 2017 and will