Total 5 Science / R&D / Research job vacancies in kunia hawaii

• Uses offices automation equipment and software to type, edit, and create a variety of standard documents in accordance with established procedures.
• Prepares and types travel authorizations, vouchers, and other standard office forms.
• Receives incoming telephone calls and visitors and refers them to appropriate staff members. Receives, reviews, and routes incoming mail to office staff.
• Serves as alternate/backup timekeeper, prepares, and transmits Time and Attendance records for office staff.
• Types final, error-free documents, ensuring correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, and grammar.

Starting at $36,878 Per Year (GS 4-5)

• Performs a variety of routine and frequently complex tasks involving techniques and practices relating to natural resources, i.e., water, land, food, plants, animals, and soils. Assignments support field projects and program planning activities.
• Independently, or as part of a team, makes browse surveys; takes and records data, counts, sorts, identifies species, and performs measurements.
• Analyzes information; prepares reports of findings with appropriate recommendations; assembles information for development of natural resource plans and coordination of resource need information for analytical reports.
• Utilizes topographic maps; photographs, and data that identify a variety of natural resource areas and conditions. May drafts maps or diagrams of survey areas.
• Utilizes a variety of tools to collect and record data such as numbers, measurements, weights, samples, and special notes. Keeps records of all data and develops these into statistical reports.
• Identifies and classifies principal natural resource types in assigned geographic areas.
• Collects natural resource samples and makes determinations, such as species identification, habitat condition, injury, disease. Makes qualitative observations of injury and disease and makes recommendations for resolution of problems.
• On an individual basis or as part of a crew, constructs or completes habitat projects such as watershed development, fencing, or clearing areas to establish more desirable food or cover habitat.
• Participates in developing new or improved prevention practices relating to conditions and findings of natural resource areas where information and data have been collected.
• Assists in layout of field experiments, pilot projects, impact evaluations, and specific natural resource projects. Assists in determining validity of survey or evaluation techniques. Suggests improvements of methods and techniques.
• Is fully responsible for compliance with safety rules and regulations.

Starting at $21.14 Per Hour (GS 6)

• Performs a variety of routine and frequently complex tasks involving techniques and practices relating to natural resources, i.e., water, land, food, plants, animals, and soils.
• Assignments support field projects and program planning activities.
• Independently, or as part of a team, makes browse surveys; takes and records data, counts, sorts, identifies species, and performs measurements.
• Analyzes information; prepares reports of findings with appropriate recommendations; assembles information for development of natural resource plans and coordination of resource need information for analytical reports.
• Utilizes topographic maps; photographs, and data that identify a variety of natural resource areas and conditions. May draft maps or diagrams of survey areas.
• Utilizes a variety of tools to collect and record data such as numbers, measurements, weights, samples, and special notes. Keeps records of all data and develops these into statistical reports.
• Identifies and classifies principal natural resource types in assigned geographic areas. Collects natural resource samples and makes determinations, such as species identification, habitat condition, injury, disease.
• Makes qualitative observations of injury and disease and makes recommendations for resolution of problems.
• On an individual basis or as a crew member, constructs or completes habitat projects such as watershed development, fencing, or clearing areas to establish more desirable food or cover habitat.
• Participates in developing new or improved prevention practices relating to conditions and findings of natural resource areas where information and data have been collected.
• Assists in layout of field experiments, pilot projects, impact evaluations, and specific natural resource projects. Assists in determining validity of survey or evaluation techniques. Suggests improvements of methods and techniques.
• Is fully responsible for compliance with safety rules and regulations.

Starting at $18.96 Per Hour (GS 5)

Some of the duties you will perform include, but are not limited to:

• Coordinate biosecurity inspections schedule and work tasks, and work with contractors and park staff to accomplish biosecurity and weed management project goals
• Conduct routine resource monitoring programs for evaluating nonnative species invasiveness, vegetation communities, population dynamics, ecosystem relationships, and public health/safety issues.
• Carry out a variety of field activities such as the plant surveys, control of non-native and invasive plant or insect species, and enhancement of native plant populations.
• Perform routine and recurring testing of collected samples. Record all data collected and ensure adequate quality control. Make field observations of natural resource conditions.
• Mix, load, and apply herbicides for the purpose of vegetation control.

Park Information: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park (HAVO) is located on the island of Hawai'i, on the southeastern edge of the island, in the districts of Ka'u and Puna, between the towns of Hilo to the northeast and Kailua-Kona to the northwest. It is located 2,500 airline miles from the continental United States and over 250 miles from Honolulu on the island of Oahu, the major business, government, and industrial supply center for the state. The park was established in 1916 and encompasses two of the most active volcanoes in the world, Kilauea and Mauna Loa; a diverse geography that ranges from sea level to 13,677 feet in elevation; and protects rich biodiversity and Native Hawaiian culture. The park includes 335,259 acres of land, 123,100 acres of designated wilderness, 121,015 acres of eligible wilderness, 7,850 acres or potential wilderness. The Park is in an area of active volcanism and seismic activity, with frequent earthquakes, volcanic activity and a tropical environment experiencing 20-150 inches of rain a year. For more information on the park for this announcement, select the following link: Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov)

• IMPORTANT Special Consideration: The island of Hawai'i can be subject to high concentrations of volcanic fumes, especially sulfur dioxide gases and particulates. The fumes are known to be hazardous to an unborn fetus, and persons with heart and respiratory problems. Long-term effects on normal healthy persons are unknown.

Starting at $51,110 Per Year (GS 7)

• Performs supervisory personnel management responsibilities.
• Employs scientific and analytical techniques to define, quantify, and evaluate the feasibility of assigned projects, studies or problems.
• Reviews and evaluates study projects, proposals, and/or reports for adequacy of methodology, including the use or development of computerized models, ensuring the techniques used are valid and appropriate to the problem or issue identified.
• Serves as a consultant and command level technical expert to senior subject matter specialists and/or agency officials responsible for broad program operations.
• Attends meetings, conferences, briefings, and seminars related to program planning, advanced technologies, and support system concepts.

Starting at $127,397 Per Year (GS 14)