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This position supports/contributes to Departments mission and goals of preserving, protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife and their habitats by implementing sound fire practices and restoring fire as a disturbance agent at the appropriate frequency to fire dependent ecosystems/habitats sustaining and perpetuating the plants and animals dependent thereon.

Under the supervision of the Rx Fire Program Manager, this position, On Call RXB2, will provide leadership, supervision, and mentoring within the prescribed (Rx) fire program to support the Department's mission and goals within the constraints of policy, applicable legal requirements, and applicable collective bargaining agreements to help implement projects for fire-dependent dry forest ecosystems. The primary focus will be in Eastern Washington but may include any region in Washington State, which includes more than 200,000 acres of forest including numerous fire dependent, e.g., dry forest and fire maintained prairies and steppe.

General duties include coordinating with the Rx Fire Program Manager, Other Fire Managers, Wildlife Area Managers, Wildlife Biologists and Foresters to implement burns for restoration and maintenance of fire dependent fish and wildlife habitat. Conducting burn unit layout, fuels inventory, assisting with writing and technical review of burn plans, with a primary focus of supervising and training other Rx fire members.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is recruiting to fill two (2) 10 month full time, career seasonal Natural Resource Specialist 1 positions located in the Lands Division of the Wildlife Program. The duty stations are in the Okanogan, Washington and Yakima, Washington. The employment period mid-February through mid-December, annually.

As the Prescribed Fire Team Leader within the Wildlife Program this position assists in providing statewide fire management implementation services on wildlife areas including fire dependent fish and wildlife habitat restoration and maintenance using prescribed (Rx) fire. Additionally this position will lead a prescribed (Rx) burn team to help implement projects for fire-dependent dry forest ecosystems with an initial focus in Eastern Washington but may include any region in Washington State. This position supports/contributes to the mission of WDFW of preserving, protecting and enhancing fish and wildlife and their habitats by restoring fire as a disturbance agent at the appropriate frequency to fire dependent ecosystems/habitats sustaining and perpetuating the plants and animals dependent thereon.

Under the supervision of the  Rx Fire Unit Manager, this position (Prescribed Fire Team Leader) supports the Department's mission and goals by implementing sound fire dependent fish and wildlife habitat restoration and maintenance projects within the constraints of policy, applicable legal requirements, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.

This position assists the Rx Fire Unit Manager in implementing plans to restore and maintain fire dependent fish and wildlife on wildlife areas primarily in Eastern Washington but may include any region statewide which include more 200,000 acres of forest including numerous fire dependent, e.g., dry forest and fire maintained prairies and steppe.

General duties include:  Coordinating with the Rx Fire Unit Manager, Wildlife Area Managers, Wildlife Biologists and Foresters to implement plans for restoration and maintenance of fire dependent fish and wildlife habitat; Conducting burn unit layout, fuels inventory, assisting with writing burn plans, and implementing restoration projects with a primary focus of supervising and training the Prescribed Burn Team.

Duties:

Job knowledge (to perform the essential activities of this position, the employee must know or understand the following): Fire ecology; fire effects and by-products and their ecosystem actions; fire weather; fuel types; fuel conditions; fuels assessment; smoke management; NWCG standards; knowledge of tools and techniques used to prepare for and implement Rx burns; Working knowledge of management, supervision and training of fire line hand crews and/or prescribed fire hand crews.

Duty: Supervision
Tasks include:

Develop, maintain and lead a fully integrated and functionally coordinated team of professional members, 1- Crew Supervisor 2 and up to 6- Natural Resource Worker 2 levels to accomplish overall ecological fire management including prescribed fire implementation, mop-up and patrol, tree thinning operations and monitoring to restore and maintain ecological function of natural systems for the benefit of wildlife and fisheries habitat. Plans work to be accomplished by subordinates, sets and adjusts short term priorities. Assigns work to subordinates based on priorities. Develops performance standards and evaluates work performance of subordinates. Provide for employee and public safety while implementing assigned projects including prescribed burning. Design training curriculum to develop and nurture skills of subordinates.

Duty: Equipment Operation and Maintenance
Tasks include:

Ability to operate various types of equipment such as 4-wheel drive vehicles, all-terrain vehicles (UTV & ATV), chainsaws and hand tools in a safe and efficient manner. Ability to provide basic equipment maintenance such as trouble shooting pumps, engine operations and maintenance, tool maintenance and maintain them in a fire ready condition. Ability to organize and track inventories of fire line equipment so there is accountability of equipment and costs.

Duty: Monitoring
Tasks include:

Ability to learn or develop basic pre- and post-burn monitoring such as fuels inventories and vegetation surveys, photo points this data is required for creating burn plans and monitoring prescribed burn goals and objectives.

Duty: Other duties as assigned
Tasks include:

Participate in forest thinning operations to reduce stand densities prior to implementing prescribed fires. Ability to conduct miscellaneous wildlife area duties as assigned during non-fire periods such as visitor signage replacement, repair construction, assisting planting of food plots, etc.

Project

This vacancy is part of a prestigious Vidi project funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project will combine field work, remote sensing and statistical modeling to study interactions between climate, vegetation and fire in boreal and arctic systems.

Tasks

The PhD student will estimate carbon emissions from fires and investigate tree recruitment after fires in boreal forests and arctic tundra using a combination of field and remote sensing approaches. Satellite data processing will encompass the entire circumpolar arctic-boreal biomes, and the applicant should therefore be able to handle big datasets efficiently. Field data includes existing and newly acquired data. The applicant should be able to deal with logistical issues and challenging conditions for field campaigns in Siberia. The applicant will closely collaborate with other team members and colleagues, among others from NASA's Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment. The research should lead to peer-reviewed publications that will be used to write a PhD thesis. The applicant will present the results at national and international conferences, and contribute to teaching courses.

Position Description: The Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University invites motivated, innovative scientists to apply for a 1.0 FTE, 9-month, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in Wildland Fire Science and Air Quality. The position is approximately 45:45:10 research, teaching and service.

Qualifications: The candidate must have a PhD in one of the following areas: Engineering, Fire Science, Fire-Atmosphere Interactions, Smoke Emissions & Air Quality, or other closely related field. Targeted areas of interest include fire weather, fire risk and forecasting, fire emissions (aerosols and/or trace gases), smoke dispersion and management, and the impact of fire emissions on visibility, clouds and climate.

The successful candidate must have excellent inter-personal skills. The successful candidate must also have:
· Demonstrated evidence of being a self-starter who is capable of independent planning and implementation of teaching and research activities.
· Demonstrated ability to conduct high-quality research, and potential to attract external funding from competitive sources and partnerships with industry, non-profit, and/or government agencies.
· Potential to collaborate with scientists from NC State, state and federal agencies, and other university scientists to address complex environmental and policy challenges.

Research Responsibilities: The candidate will participate in interdisciplinary research programs at NCSU and within the College of Natural Resources. Preferred candidates will have skills in one or more of the following basic and/or applied research areas:
· Modeling and analysis of wildland or prescribed fire for sustainable management, conservation of natural resources, and the wildland-urban interface.
· Linking ecosystem processes, including fuel parameters, with fire emission and behavior models.
· Changes in wildland fire frequency and intensity due to climatic changes and subsequent air quality impacts.
· Modeling and analysis of atmospheric variables in relation to wildland fire.
· Analysis of fire behavior (both chemical and physical), smoke management, and emission impacts using experimental, remote sensing, and/or modeling approaches.
· Application of state-of-the-art coupled micro- and meso-scale modeling techniques that can accurately forecast the spatio-temporal evolution of forest fires.

Teaching Responsibilities: Teaching responsibilities are negotiable, but may include two undergraduate courses in Environmental Science, Environmental Technology and Management, and/or Natural Resources curricula, such as: Air Quality Monitoring, Fire and Emissions Modeling, and an Environmental Science senior capstone course. The candidate will also teach a graduate course in their area of specialty.

To Apply: Each applicant must apply electronically at https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/103402. Review of applications will begin September 1, 2018 and continue until a suitable candidate is selected. Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a cover letter describing the applicant's teaching experience and philosophy and research interests, and the names and contact information for three references. Official transcripts will be required of all finalists who will be interviewed for the position.

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