NOA11020 - Marine Habitat Data Technician

IMPORTANT:  This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders.  Other applicants need not apply.

 

Under the Federal Power Act and Energy Policy Act, SER HCD works with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to issue prescriptions for fishways at hydroelectric facilities. These prescriptions are part of licenses FERC issues for the hydropower facilities. In addition to these prescriptions, SER BCD recommends other license terms and conditions designed to protect habitat used by diadromous fish during their spawning, maturation, or migration. In addition to leading coordination with FERC and hydropower companies, the hydropower staff will also work with the NOAA Restoration Center to ensure efforts to remove dams under the Open Rivers Initiative, Community-based Restoration Program, and regional partnerships established under the National Fish Habitat Program are coordinated with larger projects licensed by FERC. Dams removed under these initiatives tend to be located lower within watersheds than the hydropower facilities licensed by FERC, and many of these smaller dams impound tidal creeks.

Duties:

• Review and update, as needed, SER HCD's database of 500 large dams in the region to ensure license dates, projects names, and locations as well as reflect the most recently available data from FERC and well as the status of diadromous fish populations and efforts by states to manage these fish (due August 31, 2011).

• Develop a strategy for prioritizing efforts to restore fish passage at smaller dams (i.e. non-federal dams that are not licensed by FERC (due December 31, 2011).

• Develop a database and support GIS data layers showing results of prioritization recommendations for small dams in South Carolina and North Carolina (due March 31, 2012).

• Develop a database and supporting GIS data layers showing results of prioritization recommendations for small dams in Georgia (due May 31, 2012).

• Review and update, as needed, SER HCD's consultation database for approximately 2000 projects along the South Atlantic coast and Caribbean. Time period for the projects is FY2010 (due August 31, 2011) and FY2011 (due October 31, 2011). This task also includes supporting GIS data layers.

• Represent SER HCD in meeting with partners that contribute to or make use of the above databases.

• Assist SER HCD staff with various tasks related to development of GIS data layers, project tracking, and examination of impacts from development projects on estuarine and marine habitat.

Qualifications:

• Experience manipulating and managing large datasets with MS Access and MS Excel.
• Experience using Arc GIS to prepare maps and run spatial queries of large databases.
• Experience preparing written technical reports.
• Knowledge of riverine or coastal ecosystems and how they are affected by development.

To Apply:

Please submit your resume, the contact information for three (3) references, your salary requirements and a cover letter explaining how your qualifications meet the requirements of the position to jobs@imsg.com with the following subject line: NOA11020 – Marine Habitat Data Technician.   The salary range for this position is $30-35k.