http://crcareers.thegreatbasininstitute.org/careers/careers.aspx?rf=TAM&req=2016-RAP-004
The vegetation/habitat monitoring program at GBI serves as an excellent professional development opportunity for burgeoning natural resource professionals. This program is a component of our well-established Research Associate Program, which focuses on conservation and management of natural and cultural resources in the Intermountain West. As an element of our vegetation/habitat monitoring program, participants will work cooperatively with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on post wildfire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR) projects across the region. In accordance with this strategy and through a partnership with the BLM, GBI’s vegetation monitoring program is dedicated to providing college graduates and emerging professionals with hands-on survey, inventory, monitoring, and reporting experience in natural resource management. Description: In cooperation with the BLM-Idaho, Boise District Office, GBI is recruiting up to 9 ESR Soda Fire Vegetation Monitoring Technicians to work cooperatively with BLM ESR and United States Geological Survey (USGS) Resource Specialists, and GBI ESR Monitoring and Field Crew Leads. Technicians will work on a field crew to gather monitoring data to determine effectiveness of post-fire stabilization and rehabilitation efforts. Duties include following new and established field protocols to conduct vegetation sampling and field data collection on new and existing monitoring sites within Idaho public lands. Field work for this position includes maintaining safety awareness and practices, navigating off-trail to sampling sites, establishing sampling plots and transects, collecting core indicator data such as line-point intercept, canopy gap, and basal gap intercept, and/or digital imagery monitoring. Field monitoring also includes photo-point monitoring, site assessment observations, native/non-native plant identification, density, basal diameter, aerial seeding shrub density monitoring, and shrub seedling survival monitoring. During periods of field work camping may be required. Technicians will be responsible for entering and synthesizing field data, and organizing site assessments and photos on field computers. Secondary duties include data analysis using field computers and the opportunity to work in cooperation with BLM ESR and USGS personnel, and GBI Monitoring and Field Crew Leads in ESR monitoring report preparation. Additional duties may include assisting BLM Weed Management Specialists with noxious weed inventory, treatment, and monitoring, and collecting and monitoring noxious weed biological control agents. Field technicians may also assist BLM ESR Resource Specialists and GBI Monitoring Lead with various ESR treatment implementation monitoring. Location: These positions are based in the BLM Boise District Office and USGS Snake River Field Station in Boise, ID and the monitoring will take place across public lands managed by the BLM Boise District Idaho. A majority of the field sampling will occur in areas undergoing post-fire recovery and restoration. Compensation: o $15.00/hour o $15.00 Camping per diem o $75/week housing stipend Timeline: o 11 April – 17 September 2016 o Full-time, 40 hours per week minimum Qualifications: Technical requirements: o Bachelor’s Degree in Life Sciences, such as: Botany, Wildlife Biology, Range Ecology, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Resources or related subject; o Experience conducting ecological field work; o Coursework in plant taxonomy and/or systematics (transcripts may be requested); o Familiarity with native and invasive plants of the sampling area and associated natural resource issues preferred; o Experience conducting vegetation surveys using various monitoring protocols, including standard rangeland monitoring protocols, photo plots, and site observations; o Experience identifying plants in the field and using a dichotomous key; o Experience with data entry and management; o Ability to read, interpret and navigate using topographic maps; o Experience navigating and collecting coordinates with hand-held GPS units; o Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access). Additional requirements: o Valid, state-issued driver’s license and clean driving record; o Experience operating 4WD trucks on paved and unpaved roads, often in narrow or rocky desert areas; o Ability to work productively as part of a team to accomplish mutual goals; o Ability to work independently; o Ability to communicate effectively with team members, agency staff, and a diverse public; o Excellent organizational skills; o Familiarity with best practices for field safety and low impact principles; o Experience in and willingness to spend multiple days camping in the field; o Willingness to work irregular hours (e.g., early mornings, late nights); and o Ability to work in harsh and rapidly changing environments, work in all types of weather conditions, traverse uneven terrain, carry upwards of 40 pounds in a backpack, and otherwise maintain good physical condition. To apply: http://crcareers.thegreatbasininstitute.org/careers/careers.aspx?rf=TAM&req=2016-RAP-004
