Bedeque Bay Environmental Management Association
Job Summary:
Job Description:
Under the direction of the Field Crew Supervisor conduct biological field monitoring protocols: organizing and implementing field studies to analyze and monitor wildlife and enhance ecological habitats within the Bedeque Bay Watershed.
- Conduct biological field monitoring protocols: organizing and implementing field studies to analyze and monitor wildlife and document invasive species.
- Collect and analyze fresh/saltwater water samples, macro-invertebrate population samples, deployment/collection of in-situ probes, use of field collection unit (YSI Pro Plus) and lab photometer.
- Conduct Tree Swallow nesting box breeding health/population assessment and assist with banding of adults and fledglings.
- Conduct Monarch Watch protocols – inclusive of Monarch raising, tagging/release protocols, XXM Program pollinator site monitoring, Project Monarch Health OE Sampling
- Assist with Tree Swallow Monitoring Program – installation/monitoring of nest boxes, monitoring and banding of adults and fledglings, collection/upload of data to national data base.
- Conduct Bank Swallow shoreline colony site audits, population monitoring and adjacent habitat assessments.
- Conduct Atlantic Salmon habitat/spawning site targeted enhancement initiative, plus general instream species fish habitat enhancement protocols.
- Conduct fish population assessments and electrofishing surveys.
- Implement hedgerow/riparian enhancement measures: native tree and shrub planting.
- Implement pollinator habitat assessment and/or enhancement protocols on landscapes adjacent to agricultural fields inclusive: Swamp milkweed propagation, pollinator mix planting, care transplanting of wetland ground plants.
- Employ GPS/GIS technology to conduct ecological monitoring related to habitat restoration (vegetation surveys, invasive species assessment/removal).
- Assist BBEMA Environmental Projects Coordinator to undertake SeaGrass.Net eel grass meadow monitoring project site assessments.
- Assist BBEMA Climate Change Coordinator with delivery of BBEMA Youth Environmental Programs: (Yellow Fish Road, Adopt-a-River, Adopt-a-Pond,) student in class/lab sessions and on-site field trips.
- Assist BBEMA Climate Change Coordinator with BBEMA’s Newcomers to Canada Climate Change Awareness Program and Youth Science Nature Camp workshops and field trip activities.
Other Duties:
- Office work will involve online database entry, analyzing and interpreting data, and writing scientific reports
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