The Gulf Ecology Division (GED), Biological Effects and Response Branch, of the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory (NHEERL), Office of Research and Development (ORD) located in Gulf Breeze, Florida, is currently advertising for the position of Ecologist (GS-0408 12/13). Two vacancy announcements have been posted on the Office of Personnel Management website, USA JOBS at http://www.usajobs.gov/ under the following numbers:

Ecologist, GS-0408-12/13

Merit Promotion Announcement (open to Federal competitive status eligibles and other special groups as listed in the announcement):
RTP-MP-2008-0114

Delegated Examining Announcement (open to all U.S. citizens):
RTP-DE-2008-0065.

The vacancy announcements close March 28, 2008.

Duties and Responsibilities:
At the full performance level, the incumbent serves as a research team leader of a team that contributes to research efforts supporting Safe Pesticides/Safe Products (SP2), the Ecological Resarch Program, multi-year plans and multiple Gulf Ecology Division research teams. Specifically, he/she develops appropriate datasets to assess population and community level responses of aquatic organisms to environmental stressors using modeling approaches; designs and performs laboratory experiments and field surveys necessary to obtain population data on estuarine and marine organisms; models the effects of environmental stressors on populations and communities of coral and estuarine organisms using demographic, bioenergetic, matrix, individual-based metapopulation, and other approaches; develops datasets from remote sensed and existing data, analyzes data and prepares reports and manuscripts on the results of population and community modeling studies; assists other projects and teams as needed by providing modeling expertise; develops, expands and evaluates modeling tools for use in ecological risk assessment, ecological services and other applications; and performs statistical analyses of model input data and model results in order to quantify uncertainties, sensitivities, and stochastic properties of models and data.

The US EPA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

This Job Announcement was posted on the Estuarine Research Federation Web Site on 3/11/2008
The full URL is http://erf.org/jobs/2008_3_7_111912.html