{"id":45424,"date":"2022-03-09T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=45424"},"modified":"2022-03-09T11:01:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T19:01:59","slug":"job-kalama-river-vsp-monitoring-technician-dept-of-fish-and-wildlife-kelso-wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/job-kalama-river-vsp-monitoring-technician-dept-of-fish-and-wildlife-kelso-wa\/","title":{"rendered":"Job: Kalama River VSP Monitoring Technician, Dept. of Fish and Wildlife (Kelso, WA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><strong>For more information, please follow this link:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governmentjobs.com\/careers\/washington\/jobs\/3449446\/kalama-river-vsp-monitoring-technician-scientific-technician-2-non-permanent?department[0]=Dept.%20of%20Fish%20and%20Wildlife&amp;sort=PostingDate%7CDescending&amp;pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs\">https:\/\/www.governmentjobs.com\/careers\/washington\/jobs\/3449446\/kalama-river-vsp-monitoring-technician-scientific-technician-2-non-permanent?department[0]=Dept.%20of%20Fish%20and%20Wildlife&amp;sort=PostingDate%7CDescending&amp;pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Salary-<\/strong> $2,864.00 &#8211; $3,701.00 Monthly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conducts adult VSP monitoring in the Kalama River.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samples adult salmonids at Kalama Falls Hatchery adult ladder trap 2-5 days per week.<\/li>\n<li>Implements and conducts field data collection to ensure a high-quality dataset.<\/li>\n<li>Examines, enumerates, and identifies to species, run type, and origin all adult salmonids caught in the Kalama Falls Hatchery ladder trap.<\/li>\n<li>Collects biological data (fork length, marks, gender, sexual maturity) and biological samples (scales, DNA tissue) from all or a proportion of fish caught in the trap.<\/li>\n<li>Applies marks and tags into live fish for mark recapture abundance studies.<\/li>\n<li>Scans fish for presence\/absence of coded wire tags and passive integrated<\/li>\n<li>transponder tags.<\/li>\n<li>Collects additional data as directed by supervisor, including data to monitor hatchery steelhead programs.<\/li>\n<li>Conducts salmonid spawning ground surveys on lower Columbia River tributaries.<\/li>\n<li>Implements activities to estimate adult abundance including carcass mark-recovery, redd surveys, and live counts.<\/li>\n<li>Identifies and enumerates adult salmonids (live and dead) and redds to species.<\/li>\n<li>Collects biological data (e.g., length, gender, marks\/tags, scales, otoliths, and tissue samples) from live and dead salmonids.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conducts juvenile VSP monitoring in the Kalama River.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Installs, operates, maintains, and removes juvenile out-migrant traps (rotary screw traps on the Kalama River.<\/li>\n<li>Conducts daily trap checks and uses professional judgment to ensure that the timing and frequency of daily trap checks are consistent with river conditions and out-migrant abundance.<\/li>\n<li>Enumerates all target and non-target fish captured to species, life stage, and origin.<\/li>\n<li>Conducts mark-recapture experiments to calculate trap efficiency for juvenile salmonid population estimates includes safety transporting fish in 5-gallon buckets over rough terrain.<\/li>\n<li>Monitors fish health during sampling and ensures fish are released in the best condition possible.<\/li>\n<li>Maintains trap integrity during high flow and heavy debris events.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Implements steelhead broodstock collection and sampling steelhead spawn events for hatchery programs at Kalama Falls Hatchery.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Collects viable steelhead for broodstock.<\/li>\n<li>Administers antibiotics.<\/li>\n<li>Applies passive integrated transponder tags into the dorsal sinus.<\/li>\n<li>Collects biological data (fork length, marks, gender, sexual maturity, coded-wire-tag status, sexual maturity) and biological samples (scales and DNA tissue samples) at both collection and after spawning.<\/li>\n<li>Assists hatchery staff with sorting in holding ponds at Kalama Falls Hatchery.<\/li>\n<li>Scans for PIT tags and ensures PIT tags from spawned fish are accurately translated to a new fish spawn number which enables tracking of individual steelhead through the different stages while at the hatchery (arrival, weekly ripeness checks, spawn, and release (if applicable).<\/li>\n<li>Collects spawn pairing information.<\/li>\n<li>Downloads, deploys, and retrieves temperature data 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