SEEKING WETLAND RESEARCH SCIENTIST TO CONDUCT RESEARCH IN WASHINGTON STATE FOREST LANDS
Come work with us as we develop the science around the effects of timber harvest and other forest practices on aquatic habitat! We seek a wetland research scientist to help us with investigations on wetlands in forests and the effects of timber harvest and buffers on them. We seek a scientist with knowledge of nutrient cycling, water quality, and wetland vegetation who also understands geographic information systems (GIS), statistical study designs, and analyses of complex natural systems and what is necessary to tease out treatment effects from highly variable background conditions. Knowledge of fishes and other aquatic biota is also highly desirable but is not the primary expertise sought for this position. You will be joining a small team consisting of a forest hydrologist, geologist/geomorphologist, and Eastern Washington riparian ecologist, along with several project managers with ecological backgrounds as the staff researchers for the Cooperative Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research committee (CMER) committee. We have several planned wetland research projects for which you will have primary responsibility, although we generally work as a team; other team members contribute where our expertise is germane to certain aspects of projects and the holder of this position is likely to, at times, contribute to non-wetland projects when and where their expertise is needed.
CMER is the science arm of the Washington State Department of Natural Resources Forest Practices Adaptive Management Program. Our job is to perform scientific investigation to evaluate forest practices rules that apply to timber harvest and other forest practices on state, local government, and private lands in the State of Washington. The CMER committee is composed of scientists from state agencies, private timberland owners, native tribes, and conservation organizations that together decide how to conduct and interpret scientific studies to answer questions related to the state forest practices rules.
For more information about the CMER and adaptive management program see:
https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/forest-practices/adaptive-m... https://www.dnr.wa.gov/about/boards-and-councils/forest-practices-board/...
For job announcement and application information see attached announcement or go to: https://nwifc.org/cmer-wetland-scientist/
To discuss this opportunity, contact Jenelle Black, CMER Science Staff Manager, NW Indian Fisheries Commission, jblack@nwifc.org