American Conservation Experience, a non-profit conservation corps, in partnership with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) ​​Puget Sound/Olympic Peninsula Complex in Lacey, Washington is seeking TWO Fisheries Field AmeriCorps Interns to dedicate 8.5 months to the monitoring of fisheries resources. The fisheries monitoring includes providing field, lab, and hatchery support for a diversity of projects. Field sampling and hatchery evaluation efforts (biosampling and sample processing) will be primary roles. While each intern will primarily assist a specific biologist, opportunities to support other projects will be permitted when the schedule allows in order to maximize experience diversification. This opportunity is intended for enthusiastic young professionals with a deep interest in advancing their career goals in fisheries management.

Are you a Fishery Biologist experienced in conducting biological studies and wishing to apply your scientific expertise towards monitoring, restoring, and managing fish and their natural habitats? Love the thrill of the outdoors and looking for a challenge? If so, then apply to become a Fish & Wildlife Biologist! As our Fish & Wildlife Biologists, you’ll operate an automated/manual mass marking and coded wire tagging mobile wet lab at hatcheries statewide. With your expertise, you’ll assist in organizing, directing, and conducting coded wire tagging.

As our Fish & Wildlife Biologist, you will manage staff, implement angler surveys, and participate in White Sturgeon mark-recapture operations and Young-Of-Year surveys to assess the stock status of the various White Sturgeon populations. You will assist with monitoring Eulachon runs and prepare annual progress reports. We are recruiting to hire at the Fish & Wildlife Biologist 1 or 2 level, and we will train a Fish & Wildlife Biologist 1 up to the Fish & Wildlife Biologist 2.

Do YOU or someone you know have a passion for data management, working with stakeholders/tribes/industry, AND field sampling? The harvest site specialist is in charge of tracking all harvest sites for commercial shellfish operations while coordinating with our tribal partners. This position is a great balance of office work and being out in Washington’s beautiful beaches and marinas conducting field sampling.

$1000 – $5000 + scholarships Open to women (cis-women and any persons who identify as women) who will be juniors or seniors at a four-year college or university in the state of Washington in the Fall of 2022.  Applicants must have a declared major in the sciences, engineering or mathematics, and must have a United States issued social security number. Winners generally have exemplary grades, outstanding letters of recommendation, financial need, a record of community service, and a strong interest in pursuing a career in the sciences, engineering or mathematics.

FISH 497B is an advanced, 5-credit course on the ecology of marine predators, the environments they inhabit, and the important biotic and physical processes that govern the ocean ecosystems they occupy. We will explore a range of complex concepts in marine ecology, including trophic ecology, migrations, population estimation, ecophysiology, reproduction, and conservation. The course will also give students an introduction to current methods used to study marine top predators. 

I wanted to share a new opportunity based in Issaquah WA in the natural resources field. This position will coordinate the Lake Sammamish Urban Wildlife Refuge Partnership (UWRP) program in the Lake Sammamish watershed of Washington State. The UWRP is connected to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) refuge system with partners guiding the custom program through a Steering Committee with agency and organizational support. The overall goal of the Lake Sammamish UWRP is to connect diverse local communities with nature and to inspire people to care for the watershed. This position will expand and diversify existing UWRP partner outreach and education efforts by leveraging collective resources and assets to increase community reach and depth of engagement, particularly with underserved communities and communities of color.

We are recruiting for a Senior Field Bio Technician for our Issaquah, WA office. We are accepting applications through 2/28/2022. Cramer Fish Sciences (CFS) is a fisheries consulting firm that conducts research and monitoring throughout the Pacific Northwest and California. Our mission is to rigorously apply the scientific method to afford our clients innovative, scientifically robust solutions to address a variety of fisheries and environmental challenges. We achieve this through effective and unbiased data collection, insightful analysis and interpretation, and clear communications and publication of results in scientific journals. The Senior Field Technician provides support for the organization by leading field crews in field data collection and assisting with literature reviews, data QA/QC and summary, and reporting.

We are hiring for several Peer Health Educator positions, and full-time undergraduate and graduate students are eligible to apply. Interested students must register and attend one of our Information Sessions next week (Tuesday, 2/1 at 6:30pm, Wednesday 2/2 at 10:00am, and Thursday 2/3 at 3:30pm) in order to receive an application.

UAA Peer Advisers are experienced undergraduate students who receive extensive training and work alongside professional staff advisers to serve thousands of UW Seattle students each academic year.   Peer Advisers see students for 10-15 minute drop-in advising sessions that commonly involve discussing: course selection, major selection and declaration, satisfactory progress policies, registration, academic difficulty, and referrals to campus resources.  Peer Advisers also answer emails submitted to the main general advising account of the university.