What are the responsibilities and job description for the Hydrologic Technician position at A.I.S., Inc.?
A.I.S., Inc. (AIS) is a national scientific services firm supporting maritime activities requiring certification of compliance with environmental regulations as well as collecting data for use by Federal, State, Municipal, and other government agencies along the US coastline.
Primary Function :
This successful candidate shall provide hydrological support services to promote the protection, conservation, and recovery of protected fish species and their habitat. The primary objective is to provide expert technical to NMFS' Engineering & Physical Sciences Branch (EPSB).
Duties / Responsibilities :
- Reviewing and providing comments on hydrologic analyses done by others
- Assess current, historical, and proposed conditions by analyzing hydrology data, hydrologic models, habitat suitability or productivity models.
- Use appropriate data collection, hydrologic analysis, computer modeling techniques, and flow management plans to develop technical memoranda identifying project effects on salmonid life-cycle functions and population viability. Participate in stakeholder meetings to present findings.
- Analyze weather and hydrological data for use in machine learning forecasting models
- Provide hydrologic modeling and analysis that informs NOAA-Fisheries staff of watershed conditions, water supply and impacts of various human activity (gravel mining, fish passage, road crossing, channel restoration) to be used to evaluate proposed project impacts on ESA listed species and critical habitat. Use tools such as R language libraries or other statistical software packages as appropriate.
- Use, maintain, develop, and review state-of-the-art Machine Learning tools in areas such as but not limited to :
- Analyzing historical data usage in a water distribution system
- For hydrological processes and forecasting
- Forecasting models
- Water temperature machine learning models
- Predictive streamflow machine learning models
- Turbidity machine learning model.
- Create GIS maps for NMFS hydrologic modeling projects
Compensation : Candidates will be paid an hourly rate to be negotiated, and total compensation will vary depending on the candidate's availability. This is a full-time position. AIS benefits package includes health and dental insurance, vacation, sick and holiday benefits.
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If you would like to apply for this exciting new opening, please click the following link http : / / aisobservers.com / careers / to submit the required information :
All documents must be submitted for your application to be considered. If you have any questions pertaining to this opening, please feel free to contact the Talent Acquisition Team at talentacquisitionteam@aisobservers.com or 508-990-9035.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of A.I.S. to recruit, hire, train, promote, transfer and compensate our employees and provide all other conditions of employment including Company sponsored events without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, lawful alien status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, veteran status or any other status protected by applicable law.
Must be able to work in the U.S.
