Aquatic Biologist I

Who you are: You love being outdoors, enjoy the water and have a passion for fish.

Your personal hobbies might include backpacking, fishing, hunting, or other outdoor activities.

You are eager as a person and a professional, have a positive attitude, strong work ethic, aptitude to learn new skills and like working as a team.

What the job is: This is a unique full-time position working as an Aquatic Biologist in three different disciplines, Fisheries, Herpetology, and Hydrology.

When working in fisheries, your focus is conducting fish monitoring and assessment in conjunction with Green Diamond's California Aquatic Habitat Conservation Plan (AHCP).

You will be checking and maintaining out-migrant traps for juvenile salmonids, deploying and retrieving water temperature sensors, and assisting in surveying long term channel monitoring reaches.

You will conduct snorkel and electro-fishing surveys for juvenile salmonids as well.

In Herpetology you will conduct routine stream amphibian surveys for coastal tailed frogs, southern torrent salamanders, and foothill yellow legged frogs.

Included in the work is surveying for northwestern pond turtles, northern red legged frogs and Del Norte salamanders.

When working in hydrology, your focus is to collect stream discharge measurements, sediment samples and water samples for suspended sediment and turbidity monitoring.

You will conduct analysis of water samples in the lab and assist in the maintenance of rain gauges and weather stations.

The data you collect will be entered into field tablets and downloaded into our databases for use by our research team.

You should have a bachelor's degree in fisheries/wildlife biology, hydrology, geology, watershed management or related programs.

This position works primarily in the field using four-wheel drive vehicles and hiking to get the work done.

You should be effective at using GPS, maps, and situational awareness to navigate in challenging terrain and weather conditions.

Your safety is always the number one priority.

Part of our program is to make sure you get extensive safety training for this role before any field work begins.

Work schedule: You will work in fisheries/herpetology from March through October and in hydrology from November through April.

You will work four 10-hour days, Monday through Thursday.

Each Monday, the crew meets to review the week's plans.

After the meeting, you gather the necessary field gear and begin fieldwork.

Most work is done in small groups, with someone nearby for safety purposes.

Some tasks require you to work independently and take responsibility for your own safety.

Where you'll work: You will work on nearly 400,0000 acres of Green Diamond's privately held forest property, located in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties along the Northern California coast.

Our offices are nestled in the redwood forest near the Pacific Ocean.

Compensation: Hourly wage range with progression levels: $23.00 to $30.20.

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