Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Position title: Research Ecologist, GS-0408-12/13
Salary: $65,315.00 to $100,976.00
Location: Gulf Breeze, FL
Duration of appointment: Permanent
Closing date: April 25, 2008

Position description:
At the full performance level, the incumbent serves as a research team leader in the Ecosystem Dynamics and Effects Response Branch. He/she will conduct watershed, estuarine and coastal research to improve understanding of ecosystem responses to environmental stressors, including changes in watershed nutrient loading and landscape attributes and evaluate ecological risks associated with anthropogenic stressors; develop and apply spatially-explicit mechanistic models that dynamically simulate physical and biogeochemical processes that impact water quality impairment of coastal/estuarine ecosystems in order to quantify the relationship between impairments and causes, so as to support continual improvements of water quality criteria and guidance for watershed management; provide leadership and expertise to research teams by helping to establish research directions, by implementing research and by developing products that address water quality and ecological research multi-year plans at the division, laboratory and office level; disseminate research findings through peer-reviewed publications, reports and presentations and assists with outreach and technology transfer to EPA program and regional offices; and collect and maintain data and records in accordance with the laboratory/division policies and procedures.

How to apply:
http://www.usajobs.gov

Announcement Numbers:
RTP-MP-2008-0120 (open to Federal competitive status eligibles and other special groups as listed in the announcement)

RTP-DE-2008-0089 (open to all U.S. citizens):

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The US EPA is an Equal Opportunity Employer

For more information: Rena Sawyer, 800-433-9633, sawyer.rena@epa.gov

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