Biologist
Biologist
Department of the Interior
Grand Canyon National Park
Summary
This position is located in Grand Canyon National Park, in the Science and Resource Managment Division.
Career Seasonal appointments are permanent positions and include the same benefits as Career appointments, but do not provide work on a year-round basis. You will work from approximately early February to the end of November, and you will be in non-pay status for the remainder of the year. Non-pay time can vary due to project requirements or weather conditions.
Duties
Duties will be developmental in nature when filled below the full performance level.
Major Duties for GS-07/09:
- Leading fieldwork in frontcountry and remote backcountry settings and under challenging conditions in a safe and efficient manner.
- Training crew members in appropriate data collection, entry, and verification methods.
- Leads and/or collaborates with partners on projects to manage invasive plants and restore native plant communities.
- Uses chainsaws, water pumps, herbicide application equipment, and a variety of hand tools to manage invasive plant and/or restore native plant communities.
- Write reports and interpret monitoring results for natural resource managers.
Major Duties for GS-09:
- Provide verbal briefings to others to convey information related to habitat restoration including invasive plant management.
- Utilize technical methods and procedures and management of biological resources practices with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Wilderness Act, and the Endangered Species Act, in order to design, coordinate, and execute field work.
- Use field, geospatial, and other data (e.g., environmental variables) to interpret vegetation data, trends and interrelationships and review scientific literature to put those results into context.
- Download, enter, and process vegetation data from mobile data collection units into Geographic Information Systems (GIS) such as ArcGIS, ArcPro, ArcGIS online (AGOL), and/or R (or similar systems).