Senior Aquatic Scientist Part-Time

Description

• You shall use your experience and critical thinking to select, and apply standard techniques, methods and procedures for components of a wide range of complex tasks and assignments.
• As a part-time fisheries biologist, your responsibilities will require you to conduct fisheries and water quality investigations on data collected across California.
• You will lead and support studies primarily involving fish, hydrodynamic, and water quality data sets.
• You will assist with study plan development and implementation, including describing study objectives, data collection, analytical approaches, analyses and report/manuscript preparation in support of field experiments, management actions, and habitat restoration.
• You shall collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to help deliver projects on time and within budgeting in a fast-paced work environment.

Requirements

• You have a minimum of 10 years of professional experience in the field.
• You are a quantitative-focused fisheries technician/biologist who thrives in modeling hydrodynamic, water quality, and fisheries data.
• You have experience working on fish guidance structure design development and analysis and report preparation.
• You will thrive in a fast-paced, challenging environment and can manage multiple responsibilities and deadlines while working on a team or independently.
• You have previous experience in analyzing complex data sets using advanced machine learning and statistical approaches.
• You shall provide excellent time/budget management, organizational capabilities, attention to detail, and strong problem-solving skills.
• You have a minimum of 10 years of professional experience with operating and trailering boats, using a wide range of fish and water quality sampling gear, and performing light maintenance on sampling gear and equipment.
• You have a minimum of 10 years of experience in the fisheries or aquatic biology field.
• You have experience completing complex fish and hydrodynamic data analyses, including acoustic telemetry data processing and analysis.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance