Biological Science Technician – AmeriCorps

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Stewards Individual Placements (Stewards), a program of Conservation Legacy, provides individuals with AmeriCorps service and career opportunities to strengthen communities and preserve our natural resources. Participants serve with federal agencies, Tribal governments, and nonprofits to provide institutional capacity, develop community relationships, and support ecosystem health. Stewards partners with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to facilitate the WaterCorps Program to provide opportunities to federally enrolled Tribal Members seeking to gain experience in the water resources field. This WaterCorps position will be hosted at the U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center and will host a Biological Science Technician.

The Biological Science Technician is an AmeriCorps position that will assist with scientific research efforts that provides objective and impartial science on protected and invasive species, wildfire, and drought in the western U.S. to resource and emergency managers and the public. The USGS provides science for a changing world, which reflects and responds to society’s continuously evolving needs. As the science arm of the Department of the Interior, the USGS brings an array of earth, water, biological, and mapping data and expertise to bear in support of decision-making on environmental, resource, and public safety issues.

The member will assist aquatic and rangeland science teams with field sampling activities and the Science & Data Delivery Program (S&DD) with science support activities in science communications and data/records management. Collaborating with the aquatic and rangeland science teams, the member will learn how to conduct animal, vegetation, soil, and water field sampling techniques and office-based work such as data entry and field equipment maintenance. Collaborating with the S&DD Team, the member will create communications products linked to their work in the field. Projects will draw from the member’s strengths and interests and can include: photography, videography, podcast creation, social media and web page content creation. The member will also learn data and records management skills on how to properly document their creative work and prepare them for publication and archive.