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<span class="" style=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="">"Griffin, Paul" <<a href="mailto:pgriffin@blm.gov" class="">pgriffin@blm.gov</a>><br class="">
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style=""><b class="">Great job opportunity: USGS wildlife biologist, wild horse and burro, Fort Collins</b><br class="">
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<span class="" style=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="">November 2, 2015 at 8:30:40 AM PST<br class="">
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<div class="">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: </div>
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div class="">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 (<a href="mailto:schoenekerk@usgs.gov" class="">schoenekerk@usgs.gov</a>, 970-226-9329). </div>
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<div class="">Thank you very much for your consideration. </div>
<div class="">Sincerely, </div>
<div class="">Paul Griffin<br class="" clear="all">
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<div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">Paul Griffin, Ph.D.</span>
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<div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">2150 Centre Ave, Building C</span></div>
<div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">Fort Collins, CO 80526</span></div>
<div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">970-226-9358</span></div>
<div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="mailto:pgriffin@blm.gov" target="_blank" class="">pgriffin@blm.gov</a></span></div>
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<div class="" style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="" style="font-size:12.8px">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.</span><br class="">
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<font class="" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="" style="">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 (</span>without excessive air sickness<span class="" style="">) 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.</span></font></div>
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