Job Announcement: Physical Scientist/Ecologist GS-1301/GS-0408 Reply Due: June 30, 2014 The USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW) is advertising for Research Ecologist/Physical Scientist The position will be located at the Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, CA. * If you are interested in receiving a copy of the vacancy announcement for this position complete the attached Outreach Notice Response Form and return it to the Pacific Southwest Research Station no later than June 30, 2014. The post-doctoral researcher will assist in developing tools to predict smoke impacts and evaluate tradeoffs from various landscape management scenarios through the following activities: 1. Develop and implement a framework for assimilating monitoring data into dispersion models to produce and refine smoke forecasts using tools readily available to Forest Service personnel, through refinement of the BlueSky system of modeling tools in collaboration with researchers from PNWs Fire Team. 2. Develop a framework for providing quantitative tradeoff analyses for burn now vs. burn later scenarios, with respect to all fire related pollutants including greenhouse gases. This framework will require collaboration among land managers (burning agencies), meteorology experts, and air quality researchers. 3. Develop and deliver training/outreach to federal land management staff in the Sierra Nevada region to use and apply the above tools to produce redundancy in expertise, so that multiple large incidents do not overwhelm the fire management organizations. 4. Develop framework and protocols for incorporating fire impacts on carbon stocks and GHG emissions into tradeoff analysis and burn prioritization and wildfire response. 5. Publications will be a core element of output and measured performance. The incumbent will strive to produce at least two peer-reviewed manuscripts per year of which he/she is lead author of at least one.
PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION Ecosystem Function and Health Program Physical Scientist GS-1301 11/12 or Ecologist GS-408 11/12 Davis, CA If you are interested in this opportunity, please complete this form and send it by e-mail to Malcolm North at mno...@fs.fed.us Please respond no later than June 30, 2014 INTERESTED APPLICANT INFORMATION: NAME: EMAIL ADDRESS: MAILING ADDRESS: TELEPHONE NUMBER: TYPE OF CURRENT APPOINTMENT: (if applicable) PERMANENT --TEMPORARY --TERM CURRENT STATION/LAB/REGION/FOREST/DISTRICT: (if applicable) CURRENT PAY or SERIES AND GRADE: (if applicable) CURRENT POSITION TITLE: I AM ELIGIBLE FOR FEDERAL NON-COMPETITIVE HIRING AS: VRA (Veterans Recruitment Authority) SCHEDULE A (Persons with disabilities) Reinstatement (prior permanent career/career conditional employees) OTHER **Note: for candidates that do not understand what these authorities mean, or the criteria that needs to be met in order to be eligible for non-competitive hiring authorities, please see the information below. 30% or More Compensable Disabled Veterans: Temporary and career opportunities can be provided to qualified disabled veterans who were discharged because of a service-connected disability or retired with a disability rating of 30% or more, and have been rated by the VA since 1991 or later as having a compensable service-connected disability of 30% or more. OPM.Gov/Strategic Management of Human Capital Veterans Recruitment Authority (VRA): Allows for temporary and career opportunities for positions at grade levels through GS-11. Qualified veterans must be disabled or, have served on active duty during a war or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized or, received an Armed Forces Service Medal or, was recently (within the last 3 years) separated from active duty. OPM.Gov/Strategic Management of Human Capital
