Aquatics Scientific Technician

South Sound ANeMoNe Scientific Technician, Sci Tech 1
Full-time, Non-permanent, Represented position
Anticipated Non-permanent is June 1, 2025, to October 30, 2025
Work Hours and Partial Telework flexibility may be available and considered
Salary: $2,776.00 – $3,643.00 Monthly

Responsibilities:

• Works with a crew of staff and volunteers to collect spatially explicit aquatic field data to characterize aquatic habitat, including plant, organism, sediment, and water quality data.
• Collects data while wading, off motorized and hand-powered vessels, from over-water structures, floats, banks, or beaches.
• Saves, downloads, and transfers data from field equipment to long-term storage.
• Labels and stores samples appropriately for later processing in the laboratory.
• Processes samples according to scientific protocols in the laboratory setting.
• Under the direction of the Community Climate Resilience Scientist, implements long-term monitoring at ANeMoNe sites in Puget Sound and coastal estuaries.
• Mounts and deploys autonomous sensors, maintains deployed sensors, retrieves sensors at predetermined times, operates portable point scientific probes,
• Operates equipment such as trucks, trailers, motorboats, lab ovens, pumps, desiccators, and sieve shakers.
• Transports equipment to and from the field.
• Under the direction of the Climate Resilience Scientist, synthesize historical data, including continuously logged environmental data, biological survey data, and digitally transformed underwater video data to assess species density and distribution according to established protocol, and recommend changes/amendments to protocol as necessary.
• Create geographically explicit maps and analyses.
• Implement a protocol for analysis of long-term eelgrass ecological data collection to determine eelgrass density and distribution.

Required Qualifications: 

• 1 year of high school science or equivalent.
• Knowledge of scientific methods and data collection.
• Willingness and physical capability for field data collection.
• Willingness to learn and implement laboratory protocols.
• Commitment to fostering and supporting an environment that honors diversity, equity, inclusion, and environmental justice practices.