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[Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)]

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From: Davies, Kirk William <Kirk.Davies at oregonstate.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 9:58 AM
To: Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran)
Subject: summer technician positions

Will you please share this job announcement (attached)?  We are hiring 6-8 summer technicians to assist with data collection in Oregon, Nevada, and Idaho.

Thanks,
Kirk

Job title: Biological Science Aid or Technician
Series/Grade: GS-0404-03/04
Start Date: May 2017
End Date: August-September (depending on when you go back to college)
Location: Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center, Burns, OR
Number of Positions: 6-8

Job Description:
Assists a research scientist who is conducting vegetation ecology research in sagebrush steppe and riparian plant communities located in the northern Great Basin.  Projects include determining interactions between livestock grazing and fire risk, investigating the effects of prescribed burning and mechanical sagebrush thinning on wildlife habitat, evaluating the impacts of invasive plant infestations on sage-grouse habitat, determining landscape scale vegetation patterns, investigating management and climate influence on vegetation characteristics and sage-grouse habitat, evaluating methods to contain and prevent invasive plant infestations, and investigating methods to shift succession to desired plant communities.  Duties include vegetation and environmental data collection, processing vegetation and soil samples, establishment and maintenance of research plots, and data entry. Duties will also include assisting in some laboratory work.  Travel and camping throughout eastern and southern Oregon, northern Nevada, and southwestern Idaho is required.

To Apply: Mail or email resume, reference contact information, college transcripts, and OF-306 form to the address below before February 15.  Also indicate dates available to work.  List any pertinent classes in natural resources, rangeland science, botany, wildlife, soils, and environmental science.  OF-306 form can be found at this website: http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/of0306.pdf   USDA-ARS is an AA/EOE.





Kirk W. Davies
Rangeland Scientist
USDA - Agricultural Research Service
Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center
67826-A Hwy 205
Burns, OR 97720
(541) 573-4074

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/eoarc/kirk-davies

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