Description
The National Park Service is providing public notice of its intention to award a task agreement under a previously competed or single source justified master cooperative agreement with Conservation Legacy. The project aims to provide intern assistance with the collection of field data, analysis, and reporting for rare plants, forest vegetation, water quality, and wildlife at 14 national park units. The intern will receive on-the-job learning experiences with resources of the national park system via professional mentoring. The primary objective of this project is to train and mentor interns as they learn about and assist with inventory and monitoring of natural resources.
• Assisting with field-oriented vegetation monitoring projects
• Assisting with water quality sampling at selected parks
• Entering and quality checking monitoring data and species occurrence information in databases and spreadsheets
• Occasionally providing field and data management assistance for other long-term monitoring projects
• Field operation and basic management of Global Positioning System (GPS) instruments and data
• Assisting with organizing and carrying out field logistics to support monitoring teams
• Occasionally assisting with formatting and editing technical reports
• Depending on the interests and background of the intern, occasionally assisting with creating Geographic Information System maps to be used for natural resources inventory and monitoring projects.