[Srm] Fwd: Great job opportunity: USGS wildlife biologist, wild horse and burro, Fort Collins

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From: "Griffin, Paul" <pgriffin at blm.gov<mailto:pgriffin at blm.gov>>
Subject: Great job opportunity: USGS wildlife biologist, wild horse and burro, Fort Collins
Date: November 2, 2015 at 8:30:40 AM PST


Dear Colleague,
I'm writing you today to ask that you please circulate the attached job opportunity to any recent graduates or other well-qualified individuals. This is a great GS-11 job based in Fort Collins, with responsibilities to guide and train BLM employees in proper design, execution, and analysis of aerial surveys for wild horses and burros in 10 western states. Whoever gets this job will also have a large hand in several high profile wild horse and burro research projects, with a reasonable expectation of authorship on multiple publications. The deadline for applications is soon: Monday, November 16. The full announcement is at:
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/420175500

The ideal background skills are a good understanding of mark-recapture analysis and population dynamics, some experience coding in a statistical language such as R, a facility with GIS, good teaching and people skills, good or correctable vision, and a willingness to help BLM managers.

The job is a USGS job; I'm a BLM employee now, but held this position, myself, until earlier this year. I will help train and work closely with the person who fills the job, so I'd be glad to talk with anyone who is interested in learning more about the position (my contact information is below). The USGS PI to contact is Kate Schoenecker (schoenekerk at usgs.gov<mailto:schoenekerk at usgs.gov>, 970-226-9329).

Thank you very much for your consideration.
Sincerely,
Paul Griffin

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Paul Griffin, Ph.D.
Research Coordinator
BLM Wild Horse and Burro Program
2150 Centre Ave, Building C
Fort Collins, CO 80526
970-226-9358
pgriffin at blm.gov<mailto:pgriffin at blm.gov>

ANNOUNCEMENT
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/420175500

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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