Good Afternoon Geographers and Sustainers – For those of you interested in gaining field experience and building a career working outside, this sounds like an awesome opportunity. Thanks to Joshua Johnson at GSMNP for passing this along.

 

 

Michael Camponovo

GIS Outreach Coordinator and GIST Program Director

Department of Geography and Sustainability, University of Tennessee Knoxville

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https://gislab.utk.edu/

 

 

 

 

This sounds fun! 

 

Want to spend winter in Yosemite providing GIS support to our fisher crew in Terrestrial Wildlife? YOSE has a last-minute opening for a GIS Assistant (Scientist in Parks, 20 weeks). We are looking for someone to start in December. This is not a remote position. See position details below, including eligibility requirements for Scientists in Parks. Interested applicants, please apply at this link GIS Assistant (ID 2557) at Conservation Legacy (breezy.hr)

20 weeks

40 hours/week

$525/week stipend

Shared seasonal housing provided (no cost to intern)

 

 

Project Description: The Intern will be an integral part of Yosemite’s Fisher Research Program, which involves learning about movement patterns and habitat preferences of the endangered fisher population in the Southern Sierra Nevada. The intern will be mentored in entering data, monitoring a database of current and previous GPS locations, and visualizing findings using GIS. Data types include GPS location, LiDAR, image and physiological data. If the intern elects for a fieldwork component, responsibilities would also include setting and checking box traps, releasing non-target animals, assisting technicians with fisher captures, and performing telemetry missions to track fishers and download GPS points remotely from collared individuals. Field work would require hiking in steep forested terrain, driving on paved and 4WD dirt roads, working independently and with a team in the field, navigating using GPS and topographic maps, and following standardized protocols.

 

 

Work Products: The goal of this position is to support our fisher project by maintaining our fisher geodatabase through Esri products. Responsibilities will include creating visual data to observe fisher distribution through time and inform habitat management that increases habitat resiliency, supporting field crews with up-to-date GIS data points, performing data management, participating in multi-agency planning meetings, and developing data collection protocols.

 

 

Qualifications: Applicants must have three years towards an undergraduate degree in GIS, cartography, biological sciences, wildlife biology, computer science, or other related field. Experience working in ESRI ArcGIS software and applications, producing well-designed cartographic products, and managing geospatial data are required. Additional skills with Python and R scripting, spatial analysis, working GPS and topographic maps will be considered. Must have an interest and ability to work independently, follow detailed protocols, adapt to evolving work conditions, and have a passion for wildlife conservation work.

 

 

Eligibility: The applicant must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent legal resident ("green card holder”) between the ages of 18 and 30 years old, inclusive, or veterans up to age 35. Prior to starting this position, a security background clearance will be required. The applicant must be a U.S. citizen or U.S. permanent legal resident (“green-card-holder”). Prior to starting this position, a government security background clearance will be required.

 

 

Josh Johnson

Staff Park Ranger

GRSM Lands Office | ROW Coordinator

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“…let me urge you to be aggressive and and vigorous in the fulfillment of your administrative duties….We are not here to simply protect what we have been given so far; we are here to try to be the future guardians of those areas as well as to sweep our protective arms around the vast lands which may well need us as man and his industrial world expand and encroach on the last bastions of wilderness.” ~ A statement by Horace Albright to the staff of the National Park Service upon his resignation as director in 1933.