Natural Resources Technician - Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, AK
One Natural Resources Technician (Seasonal Worker, Full-time, 40 hours/week) position is available with the Colorado State University (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (CEMML). This position will provide support to the natural resources program at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska (JBER). The technician will be responsible for deploying and maintaining acoustic monitors and game cameras, conducting vegetation and timber surveys, and firewood estimates, conducting wildlife surveys (including but not limited to avian and bat colony counts), streamflow surveys, urban forest inventory, beluga monitoring, nesting box maintenance, and assisting with other natural resource projects as needed. The position will include reporting summaries of field duties and data collected, to include use of ArcGIS Pro for mapping survey efforts and maintaining geodatabases, as well as interacting with JBER recreators in assisting with events such as hunter proficiency and orientation, and firewood cutting events.
Potential duties may include, but are not limited to:
- Wildlife surveys and/or management
- Vegetation surveys and/or management
- Invasive species monitoring and/or management
- Threatened and endangered species monitoring and/or management
- Outdoor recreation
- Community outreach, volunteer coordination, and/or public education
- Field-data collection, entry, and/or management
- Writing and editing technical reports
- Data analysis and/or mapping using ArcGIS
- Cartography, StoryMaps, other GIS products