The National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is
recruiting a 6-month seasonal Biological Science Technician to lead a 2-3
person field crew that will be collecting forest health data in 16 parks
throughout the Eastern US. Prior to the forest monitoring field season
incumbent will spend approximately 6 weeks in Acadia NP working with I&M
staff to prepare for the forest crew training and field season, and
establish rare community plots in stunted woodlands. During the field
season the crew leader is responsible for organizing daily field
activities, communicating regularly with park and I&M staff, and ensuring
proper protocol implementation in the field.
The crew leader will travel with the crew for approximately 16 weeks to
park sites from Virginia to Maine. The first 5 weeks of the season will
be spent in training at Acadia NP (1 week) and sampling National Historic
Parks in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The crew will then spend
approximately 5 weeks in Acadia National Park, and 8 weeks in Mid-Atlantic
parks located in Virginia and Pennsylvania. The crew will stay in park
housing where available, and lodging may include hotels, historic
buildings and cabins. Other duties may include pressing unknown plant
specimens, equipment maintenance and repair, preparing soil samples for
processing, data entry, data quality assurance/quality control,
coordinating field season logistics, and scheduling contract botanists.
Post season the crew leader will assist with various I&M protocols in
Acadia such as freshwater wetlands, lakes and streams, breeding land birds
and forest amphibians.
This is largely a field based position, and incumbents will be required to
carry heavy field equipment (40+lbs), hike though rough terrain, and work
in all weather conditions. Park housing will be available at the duty
station (Bar Harbor, ME). When away from duty station (25% of the time),
the National Park Service will pay lodging and per diem costs.
For more information or to apply, please view the announcement (vacancy
announcement # SH-NETN DEU 08-75T ) on the USAJOBS website
(www.usajobs.opm.gov).
