JOB SUMMARY: This position is located in the Everglades National Park in the Biological Sciences Branch. MAJOR DUTIES: Major duties for this position include but are not limited to: Serves as expert on vegetation communities and their defining ecological characteristics, plant populations within the greater Everglades ecosystem, and vegetation community changes and interactions with natural and anthropogenic factors including restoration, natural resource management actions, and climate change. Plan and develop a comprehensive and complex program of protection and conservation strategies specific to plants and vegetation communities within the greater Everglades ecosystem, with emphasis on the rare, unique, and vulnerable vegetation communities. Develops and implements a program of vegetation community-level inventory and monitoring projects to assess responses to ecosystem restoration, management actions, climate change and other factors, building off of previous monitoring efforts in the Everglades region. Identifies research needs related to plant communities and conservation efforts, prepares research proposals and statements of work, and negotiates cooperative/ interagency agreements for research projects as Agreements Technical Representative. Develops/integrates Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, remote sensing and other spatial data collection methods to analyze and describe landscape-level vegetation community characteristics and patterns of change. IMPORTANT: Click the 'Apply for this job' button to view a complete job description.
