Natural Resources Technician - Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ
Two Natural Resources Technician (Seasonal Worker, Full-time, 40 hours/week) positions are available with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML). This position will provide support which contributes to ongoing projects aimed at enhancing, maintaining, and supporting the natural resources located on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. The candidate intern will consist of a variety of natural resource projects with the ability for the candidate intern to suggest research or topics that they may be interested in working on. Field work may include forestry cruising, forestry timber assessments, timber sales, wetland delineations & evaluations, ecological assessments, vegetation surveys & management, invasive species management, GPS field work, threatened & endangered species monitoring, site-specific recreational information updates, and data refinement.
Potential duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Conduct field and computer-based research
- Site visits & data collection
- Assist in the design and implementation of natural resources projects
- Prepare reports and presentations summarizing research findings
- Maintain accurate and organized records of activities
- Wildlife and vegetation surveys and/or management
- Invasive species monitoring and/or management
- Threatened and endangered species monitoring and/or management
- Habitat restoration and/or management
- Wetland delineation
- Trail maintenance
- ArcGIS or other GIS software.
- Statistical analysis of wildlife sampling efforts