Natural Resource Specialist III, Wildlife Biologist

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• B.S. degree in fish and wildlife sciences or comparable natural resources discipline
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• Ability to swim and snorkel
• Ability to carry heavy equipment and navigate through rough terrain and adverse field conditions, and work in remote field locations
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• Experience conducting freshwater mussel and fish surveys and instream habitat assessments
• Experience using reputed company Office applications, statistical computing software, and geospatial processing programs
• Experience with database management and analyzing spatially and temporally extensive datasets

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• Experience leading and supervising field-teams and data collection
• Experience using fish collection equipment and various sampling reputed company (e.g., electrofishing gear, traps, nets, and seines)
• Proficiency with large-reputed company database organization and management and using statistical software R programming

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