Go to http://jobsearch.usajobs.opm.gov/?WT.svl=searchbutton, to find details and apply for this job. Closing date is 11 January. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE TECHNICIAN (WILDLIFE) SALARY RANGE: 30,846.00 - 40,091.00 USD per year OPEN PERIOD: Thursday, December 29, 2005 to Wednesday, January 11, 2006 SERIES & GRADE: GS-0404-05 POSITION INFORMATION: Full Time Term appt NTE 4 yrs PROMOTION POTENTIAL: 07 DUTY LOCATIONS: 1 vacancy - Anchorage, AK WHO MAY BE CONSIDERED: U.S. Citizens JOB SUMMARY: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Conserving the Nature of America Promotion Potential: GS-07 In this position you will provide support work to professional biologists working on biological programs for Northern sea otters, polar bears, and Pacific walruses. MAJOR DUTIES: Provides technical support and assistance to professional biologists engaged in scientific and technical work with marine mammals management. Work will include but is not limited to the following: - assembling basic information on wildlife populations such as habitat use, sex and age structure, seasonal movement, harvest characteristics, and condition of forage, range, or streams; - collecting anatomical materials and making preliminary assessments of such things as habitat preference and population dynamics; - preparing drafts of sections of field reports; - researching and extracting data from publications and manuscripts; - uses a combination of tranquilizer guns, traps, nets, and hypodermic syringes to tranquilize and capture wildlife for study, measurement, or collaring; - correlation and analysis of data and completion of reports or other documents related to a project using word processing. The work can include both office and outdoor work, as well as operation of small boats, cars, trucks, or other vehicles. Seasonal field studies involve considerable physical demands, such as frequent, extensive travel on foot; exertion from lifting and carrying equipment; and energy drain from cold, wet and windy weather. Field activities are normally conducted in remote locations and often under primitive living conditions. Small boats, canoes, or small aircraft may be used for travel or as a survey platform. Large numbers of biting insects are present during part of the year. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Verena A. Gill Wildlife Biologist U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Marine Mammals Management 1011 East Tudor Road, MS 341 Anchorage, Alaska 99503 work phone: 907-786-3584 cell phone: 907-250-3721 fax: 907-786-3816 e-mail: verena_gill@fws.gov ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~