OHSU Student Worker in Portland, Oregon at Oregon Health & Science University

OHSU Student Worker

US-OR-Portland

Requisition ID: 2026-40155
Position Category: Student
Job Type: Student
Position Type: Regular Part-Time
Posting Department: OHSU-PSU School of Public Health
Posting Salary Range: $16.80 per hour
Posting FTE: 0.00
HR Mission: Academics
Drug Testable: No

Department Overview

The OHSU-PSU School of Public Health (SPH) is aligned with the American Public Health Association in declaring racism a public health crisis, and our School is committed to becoming an antiracist SPH. We are working to center social justice in our internal and external work as a school and are committed to addressing structural and institutional racism, and to holding ourselves accountable to this work.

Function/Duties of Position

• Measure pH and DO vs. sediment depth with microelectrodes
• Figure out how to measure Fe(II) using Hach colorimetric methods.
• Re-establish HPLC method for TPA in water samples
• Use TPA method to measure OH vs. depth in microcosms.

Required Qualifications

• Enrolled in or on vacation from or is otherwise registered in Graduate Program (minimum 4.5 credit hours)

• Technical record keeping, reporting, time and project maintanence.

• Basic environmental chemistry

• Ability to perform the job duties with or without accommodation.

Additional Details

• All of the work will be performed in the wet-lab space on HRC-3. It will involve using electrodes to measure pH, dissolved oxygen, etc. No travel, no hazardous materials.
• Possibly moving and switching tanks for compressed gas (after training).