Job Opportunity: Hydrologic Technician Term position: 13 months with opportunity to extend to four years. As part of the Natural Resource Challenge, a service-wide, inventory and monitoring program has been developed to address the lack of credible scientific information available to parks on natural resources. As part of the strategy to implement natural resource monitoring throughout the National Park Service, parks with significant natural resources have been organized into 32 inventory and monitoring networks linked by geography and shared natural resource characteristics to facilitate collaboration, information sharing, and economies of scale in natural resource management. The Mid-Atlantic Network is looking to hire a Hydrologic Technician to perform a variety of complex support work in hydrologic and benthic macroinvertebrate data collection and analysis. The position is based at Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park in Virginia, but field work will be conducted in at least eight additional parks in Virginia and Pennsylvania. Successful candidates will have a basic knowledge of hydrology, geomorphology and stream ecology, experience conducting water quality monitoring in streams and/or lakes using a variety of sondes and other water quality sampling meters, and will have used laboratory methods to measure water quality parameters. Additional information and application is through the USAGov website: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=86258734&JobTitle=Hydrologic+Technician&q=fredericksburg&where=&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&AVSDM=2010-02-19+00%3a03%3a00 This position is only open to United States Citizens. For additional questions please contact Jim Comiskey at 540-654-5328 or [email protected]
