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Are you passionate about ensuring the sound management of sport fisheries in California? Are you the kind of person who thrives on challenge and innovation? Now is your chance to take a pivotal role in refining the assessment, monitoring, and management strategies for California's inland fisheries resources.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fisheries Branch is seeking a highly motivated individual to join the Inland Fisheries Assessment and Monitoring Program. The successful candidate will spearhead research efforts and refine management strategies to safeguard the sustainability and continued enjoyment of sport fisheries in lakes and reservoirs across the state. Focus will be on both warm and coldwater fisheries and the habitats upon which they depend, with special attention to the landlocked salmon program that provides Kokanee Salmon and landlocked Chinook Salmon for the state. Additional duties require the statewide coordination of fishing contest permits, long term dataset management, and data analyses with the intent for publications.

We're seeking candidates with experience in research design, data analysis, initiative, and scientific communication. Experience engaging with diverse stakeholder groups is highly valued, as is a commitment to safety and professionalism in all field activities.

Position: Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist), Permanent, Full Time
Final filing date: May 6, 2024

Visit the CalCareers Job Announcement JC-428176- Inland Fisheries Assessment and Management Specialist (Senior Environmental Scientist (Specialist) for more information on the job duties and how to apply. This position is in Yolo County.

Please reach out to Flower Moye Flower.Moye@wildlife.ca.gov with any questions.

The newly created Nature-Based Strategies Section within The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is seeking to hire a remote sensing scientist to help model, monitor, and assess California’s ecosystems towards mitigating climate change and its negative impacts.

Landscape Remote Sensing Scientist (final filing date: 4/29/2024): Duties include serving as an expert in space-based remote sensing, geospatial big-data processing, and landscape ecology. The Air Pollution Specialist (APS) Landscape Remote Sensing Scientist will assist in the development of new data products to track ecosystem change through time. These data products include carbon stocks, greenhouse gas fluxes, and other environmental metrics where appropriate. The APS will lead or assist in generating validation, calibration, and initial condition data, maps and time-series for future projection modeling of California ecosystems performed by other members of the section. The remote sensing scientist will independently, and along with other partners and contractors, develop workflows and analyses to assess spatiotemporal environmental change and attribute that change to causes. The selected candidate will also assist with other technical and policy analyses including quantifying the costs, benefits, and equity implications of natural and working lands policies and climate action. Additionally, the candidate will identify research needs that advance CARB’s understanding of cutting-edge issues in natural and working lands (NWL). The candidate will engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders including, but not limited to, public agencies, research institutions, equity stakeholders, industry, and other CARB staff, management, and executive leadership teams. The candidate will work with other public agencies and contractors on complex joint projects. The candidate must understand the complexities of ecosystems and have a desire to use that knowledge for crafting polices and land management strategies that will change the way in which California’s lands are managed. The candidate will incorporate into their work the social equity implications of NWL policies and be able to develop strategies to ensure California's most disadvantaged and low-income communities benefit from such policies.

Note: This advertisement are only open for 10 days reflecting CARB’s priority to hire this position and should not discourage applicants.

More information about the California Air Resources Board and The Nature-Based Strategies Section:

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is the State agency responsible for reducing greenhouse gas emissions for the State of California. It is CARB’s responsibility to develop a strategy for California to be carbon neutral by 2045, implement policies to achieve carbon neutrality, and to track progress towards that objective. As part of this effort, Natural and Working Lands (NWL) are a critical component of California’s climate change mitigation strategy. NWL refers to all forests, shrublands, grasslands, croplands, deserts, wetlands, and developed lands within California’s boundaries.

The new Nature-Based Strategies sections brings together all of these lands, quantifying their socio-ecological impacts, to formulate statewide holistic nature-based climate action policy. Specifically, this section leads the integration of natural systems into California’s overall carbon neutrality and climate action efforts. The science, policy, and technical work performed in this section will influence high impact policies and programs on local, state, and national levels. To accomplish this, the Nature-Based Strategies Section uses data and scientific inference to inform and develop cutting-edge statewide nature-based policies, decisions, and programs. Work in this section includes:

1. Modeling ecosystems in California under current and future conditions to quantify the contribution of NWL to statewide carbon neutrality and to set carbon targets.
2. Developing and reporting California’s NWL carbon inventory to track progress towards carbon targets and monitor other environmental metrics.
3. Performing causal assessments identifying the driving factors to environmental change, particularly isolating the impact from nature-based management actions. 
4. Working with other State, Federal, and Local agencies to develop and implement policies that support nature-based strategies.

Visit the CalCareers Job Announcement: JC-428075-Landscape Remote Sensing Scientist (Air Pollution Specialist) for more information on job duties and how to apply.

The Bay Delta Region 3 Timberland Conservation and Wildfire Resiliency Program is hiring a full-time permanent Environmental Scientist, final filing date is 4/29/2024. If you enjoy hiking in the redwood and Douglas-fir forests of Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Sonoma, and Napa counties, and are passionate about the conservation of forest species and their habitat, please consider applying. Please share this job announcement with anyone who may be interested and contact me with any questions.

The position can be based out of our Santa Rosa, Napa, and Fairfield offices, links to the job advertisement (you only need to apply to one county):

• JC-426004 - Sonoma
• JC-426015 – Napa
• JC-426021 - Solano

Job Description and Duties

Are you looking to be a part of a dynamic team of conservation-minded scientists working to protect fish and wildlife resources in the redwood and Douglas fir forests of Santa Cruz, San Mateo, Napa, and Sonoma counties? The Department of Fish and Wildlife's Timberland Conservation and Wildfire Resiliency Program is seeking a motivated professional to work as an Environmental Scientist reviewing and evaluating Timber Harvest Plans and Timber Emergencies & Exemptions by analyzing consequences of proposed activities, attending pre-harvest inspections, preparing written inspection reports and recommendations for the conservation of fish and wildlife resources, assessing the application of law, regulation and policy, conducting listed and sensitive species consultations, and preparing any related Lake and Streambed Alteration Agreements and Incidental Take Permits in the Bay Delta Region.

The incumbent works in close collaboration with other Environmental Scientists and Senior Environmental Scientists, and with other state agencies as part of an interdisciplinary review team. Under the direction of a Senior Environmental Scientist (Supervisor) the incumbent represents the region and may act as the staff lead and may provide consultative advice when working with applicants, local, state, and federal agencies, stakeholders, and the general public. Public contacts made in the course of this work are sensitive and involve a wide variety of special interest groups.

In order to be eligible for this position, you must either be transfer eligible or take and pass the Environmental Scientist exam.

You will find additional information about the job in the Duty Statement (pdf).

Julie Coombes
(she/her/hers)
Senior Environmental Scientist Supervisor
Timberland Conservation & Wildfire Resiliency and Water Rights Unit
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3
2825 Cordelia Road, Suite 100, Fairfield, CA 94534 (mailing address)
Julie.Coombes@wildlife.ca.gov
Cell/Office (707) 576-2825

Reclamation is seeking a career professional looking for an opportunity to capitalize on their expertise as a Small Craft Operator. You can make a difference in the West by assisting in meeting increasing water demands while protecting the environment. This position will serve as a boat operator in support of the Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) and associated aquatic resource monitoring and research activities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay estuary (Bay-Delta).

Duty Location: Antioch, California
Title: Small Craft Operator
Pay Scale & Grade: WG 10
Two job links depending on employment status:
USAJOBS Announcement for Career Transition, Federal Employees, Individuals with Disabilities, and Special Authorities (MP) - BOR-CGB-24-MP-12377309-CB Control # 785597400
USAJOBS Announcement for Career Transition, The Public, and Veterans (DE) - BOR-CGB-24-DE-12377310-CB Control # 785598200
Announcement closes May 08, 2024

Duties:

• Serve as a boat operator in support of the Environmental Monitoring Program (EMP) and associated aquatic resource monitoring and research activities in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and San Francisco Bay estuary (Bay-Delta).
• As part of a team, identify meaningful changes in any significant water quality parameters potentially related to operation of the State Water Project (SWP) or the Central Valley Project (CVP) and reveal trends in ecological changes potentially related to SWP/CVP operations.
• Participate in monthly sampling of water quality, phytoplankton, zooplankton and benthos at some two dozen stations stipulated by the California State Water Resources Control Board in its Revised Water Right Decision 1641.
• Responsible for the safe operation of the research vessel, Delta Marine, including maintaining the boat in operating condition by performing general maintenance, scheduling repairs, replenishing supplies, loading cargo, etc.
• The R/V Endeavor accommodates a crew of up to 10 for daily operations and accommodates a crew of 6 for longer overnight studies.
• Operating the 50-foot, R/V Endeavor engaged in aquatic resource monitoring and research and hydrographic survey work. The vessel has a 15.3-ft beam, displaces 25 net tons, has a 3.5-ft draft, and is powered by twin Cummins 6.7 inline six cylinder diesels each rated at 480 hp.
• Maneuver the vessel in tide rips, narrow channels, and in close proximity to rocks, shoals, and other vessels, allowing for propeller effect at low speeds, tendency to carry headway, and piloting effect of rudder movements during turns.
• Operate electronic equipment such as radars, communication radios, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), and depth sounders for best reception, accurate null, proper range and clearest image.
• Interpret navigation and current charts, light lists, coast pilot and other pilot publications to determine channels, shoals, navigation aids, shipping lanes, landmarks, shore appearance, safe operating depths, and course.
• Operate, train, and supervise scientific personnel in the operation of the physical systems and oceanographic equipment aboard the vessel.
• Keep engines in operating condition by checking and making minor engine repairs and adjustments; replacing simple, readily accessible parts; checking and adding fuel, lube-oil, and battery water; cleaning strainers, filters and fuel lines.
• Direct and instruct the use of safety equipment such as first aid materials, floatation devices, fire extinguishers, water spray monitors, and emergency signals.