Biological Science Technician (Aquatic Resources)

MAJOR DUTIES MAY INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:

• Surveys and identifies fish, freshwater mussels, crayfish, and other aquatic organisms.
• Performs routine and recurring collection of water quality and biological samples.
• Conducts laboratory analysis of water quality samples.
• Performs data entry, including in spreadsheets, databases, and geodatabases, and carries out quality control checks on data collection and entry performed by others.
• Organizes and maintains project equipment, supplies, schedules, checklists, maps, data, and other records.
• Implements projects to inventory, monitor, restore, and protect the park's plant communities, aquatic ecosystems, wildlife, and other natural resources.
• Provides logistical support and area orientation for contract or cooperating scientists; provides technical information, ensures quality control, and solves logistical or operational problems.
• Installs, operates, and maintains resource management equipment (e.g., tools, traps, and sampling, monitoring, photographic, and laboratory equipment); Inventories equipment, evaluates quality assurance compliance, and calibrates equipment as necessary. Orders replacement parts, new equipment, and supplies.
• Provides advice, assistance, and training to students, student conservation assistants, and volunteers involved in resource management projects and field research.
• Utilizes a variety of computer programs to compile, reduce, store, retrieve, analyze, and report data and other resource management information, including research and long-term monitoring projects. Maintains and organizes computer databases.
• Provides information to other employees and visitors about the natural resource management program. May develop and present related interpretive programs to the public.