Hood Canal Fish Monitoring Biologist - Fish & Wildlife Biologist 3

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• Oversee, conduct, and coordinate life cycle monitoring of adult and juvenile salmonids in four Hood Canal tributaries
• Oversee the operation of fish traps at weirs designed to capture juvenile and adult salmon
• Oversee adult spawner surveys
• Serve as WDFW lead for inter-agency, collaborative summer parr surveys using electrofishing and seine net capture techniques
• Design and implement mark-recaptures studies
• Coordinate field work with Tribes, Federal, state, and local agencies
• Oversee data entry, quality assurance/control, and data management in agency database and spreadsheet formats
• Analyze data and prepare written reports, manuscripts, and oral presentations that interpret biological results from the Intensively Monitored Watershed (IMW) study
• Collaborate with habitat biologists and IMW researchers conducting similar studies elsewhere to understand how streams change following restoration, and how salmon populations respond to restoration
• Develop and deliver oral presentations describing project outcomes to a variety of audiences
• Prepare written reports and peer-review manuscripts that describe project results, formulate conclusions, and generate recommendations for the management of salmon habitat and salmon populations
• Direct and supervise technical staff to achieve project objectives
• Hire, train, evaluate performance, and direct technical staff to successfully conduct program

• Bachelor’s degree in fisheries, wildlife management, natural resource science, environmental science, or related field
• Three (3) years of professional experience in fish management/research, wildlife management/research, or habitat management/research
• Valid Driver’s License

• Benefits
• Paid holidays and one paid personal holiday per calendar year
• Eight hours of sick leave per month
• Vacation leave accrual at the rates specified in WAC 357-31-165
• Twenty-one days paid military leave per year
• Five days of paid bereavement leave
• Employee assistance program
• Deferred compensation program
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program
• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Flight privileges