Individual Placement- Groundwater Species Survey and Identification
About The Position
The individual placement is based at the San Marcos Aquatic Resources Center, with the individual primarily working with the Joint Base San Antonio Groundwater Assessment Team. This specific project is investigating groundwater health and species biodiversity through a three-pronged approach: physical organismal surveys, water quality/chemistry assessments, and species detection using environmental DNA. Wells located on the San Antonio Joint Bases are sampled for all three assessments on a seasonal basis. This internship is focused on collecting water samples, rain fall and well depth data and organismal samples from traps set in the wells. The intern will also sort through samples separate species collected in the physical surveys.
Requirements
- Drivers license is a requirement.
- The internship requires using Government provided 4-wheel drive vehicles to access well sites on military lands in San Antonio, Texas.
- This SCA Position is authorized under the Public Land Corps Authority.
- All participants must be between the ages of 16 and 30, inclusive, or veterans age 35 or younger.
- Participants must also be a citizen or national of the United States or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States.
- Hours served can be applied toward the Public Land Corps (PLC) hiring authority.
Nice To Haves
- Experience collecting data from HOBO loggers and rain gauges is preferred, but not required.
Responsibilities
- Sort and identify groundwater dwelling invertebrates
- Use a dissecting scope and imaging software to take pictures of these invertebrates
- Subsample the invertebrate tissue for downstream analyses
- Catalog what species were identified, from what location, their collection date, and how many were observed
- The Individual Placement would have the opportunity to get field experience working on drilled water wells to collect invertebrates
- Set traps by lowering small containers down a wells and retrieving them a few days later
- Retrieve set traps and preserve the collected samples
- Retrieve data from rain gauges and well depth HOBO loggers
- Gain experience with field data collection
- There is an opportunity to collect environmental DNA samples from wells.
Benefits
- Defensive Driving Training
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
