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Fire Ecologist
Missouri Department of Conservation
Jefferson City, Missouri
- Develop, administer, coordinate projects dealing with long-term ecosystem level fire related research regarding priority issues that support local, regional, and statewide habitat management.
- Assist all Branches as needed for emerging needs such as wildfire suppression, research sampling, implementation of prescribed fire, introduction of fire to varying ecosystems.
- Conduct research on fire ignition, burn-patterns, and species responses for forest and grassland systems. Maintain the accuracy and availability to information in various databases.
- Set direction for applied fire science for the interaction of terrestrial and aquatic species and fire behavior on associated habitats.
- Test, evaluate and implement new or existing sampling gear to assess biological and physical changes to terrestrial habitats.
- Develop measurable objectives and hypotheses, conduct extensive literature review, develop statistically sound study designs and sampling schedules, select appropriate study sites, QA/QC data to defend suggested paths forward for management actions, regulations, and assessment procedures.
- Work in assigned research area to inform species of conservation concern, T&E species, population dynamics, and abundance and distribution of terrestrial and aquatic species and their associated habitat system.
- Create various technical and non-technical presentations and publications for scientific journals, papers, posters, pamphlets, websites, and popular articles.
- Recruit, hire, supervise, train, supervise, and evaluate staff.
- Assist in preparation of cooperative agreements, grant proposals, and budgets and monitor compliance.
- Participate in project reviews and on project review teams for other research projects.
- Provide scientific technical support to researchers, students, managers, administrators, educators, and protection staff.
- Correspond with stakeholders via email, telephone, and in-person discussion.
HOW TO APPLY
Contact: dawn.henderson@mdc.mo.gov
When you apply, please indicate that you are responding to the posting on Conservation Job Board.
| Category | Ecology, Forestry |
| Tags | Wildland Firefighter |
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