The Pacific Northwest Research Station seeks to fill a permanent, full-time Research Forester or Ecologist position, GS-0460/0408-11/12. This position is located in the Pacific Northwest Research Station Anchorage Forestry Sciences Lab in Anchorage, Alaska.
DUTIES: The scientist will provide leadership in the design and analysis of forest inventories and report on, through scientific peer review, innovative inventory techniques and analyses of critical natural resource issues in Alaska. Responsibilities include integrating extensive field data with ancillary information (e.g., remote sensing) to a) provide statistically valid estimates of trends in forest land cover, carbon pools, and species composition over time, and b) explore the causal relationships for those trends—e.g., management, disturbance, disease, and climate. This position offers many challenges and is likely to involve interaction and collaboration at both the local and national level. Experience with forest measurement and compilation, current statistical techniques and sampling methods, interdisciplinary research, grant writing and publishing is highly desirable. The Demo announcement is open to United States citizens and nationals. TA10-2669-0442DP-JJ: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=89451242&JobTitle=Research+Ecologist%2fForester&where=Anchorage%2c+Alaska&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=N&FedPub=Y&x=84&y=14&jbf574=AG*&AVSDM=2010-07-20+00%3a03%3a00 The Merit announcement is open to current career or career-conditional federal employees with competitive status. Reinstatement eligibles, persons with disabilities, Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) eligibles, certain military spouses, disabled veterans with a 30% or more disability, former Peace Corps and VISTA volunteers may be considered under special hiring authorities. TA10-2669-0442G-JJ: http://jobview.usajobs.gov/GetJob.aspx?JobID=89449429&JobTitle=Research+Ecologist%2fForester&where=Anchorage%2c+Alaska&brd=3876&vw=b&FedEmp=Y&FedPub=Y&x=84&y=14&jbf574=AG11&AVSDM=2010-07-20+00%3a03%3a00 ================================================================ The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service prohibits discrimination in all its programs and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, and where applicable, sex, marital status, familial status, parental status, religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, or because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from any public assistance program. (Not all prohibited bases apply to all programs). Persons with disabilities who require alternate means for communication of program information (Braille, large print, audiotapes, etc) should contact USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).
