USGS Wildlife Biologist; Aerial Surveys, Wild Horse & Burro

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USGS Wildlife Biologist; Aerial Surveys, Wild Horse & Burro

Postby pgriffin » Mon Nov 02, 2015 3:38 pm

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/420175500
Application Deadline: November 16, 2015
The incumbent serves as a Wildlife Biologist in the Ecosystem Dynamics Branch of the Fort Collins Science Center (FORT), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Fort Collins, Colorado. The incumbent conducts work on wild horse and burro population estimation and population dynamics and related biological science.

Duties: Provides technical assistance to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse and Burro Program to train field managers on aerial survey techniques developed by USGS. Assists with selection of appropriate survey method for the Herd Management Area or complex, prepares transect maps in a geographic information system (GIS), guides each aerial mission from start to finish, converses with and educates BLM field managers and vendors/pilots on techniques ensuring proper methods are used, flies aerial surveys (without excessive air sickness) with BLM managers on-board to train them, records data and demonstrates paper data reading in flight, manages data after surveys, and either facilitates or conducts the statistical analysis for simultaneous double observer and other population estimation models.
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