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General Information Salary: $56,051 (Step 01) to $72,862 (Step 10); NOTE: First time hires to the Federal Government are typically hired atthe Step 01. There is one vacancy; however, this announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies if they become available.
Major Duties
As a Geologist within the Pacific Coastal & Marine Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:
-Construct, test and implement numerical models and algorithms (e.g., Delft3D, Deflt3D-FM, SWAN, XBeach, Stockton, TAW) in support of the Coastal Climate Impacts, Coastal Storm Modeling System (CoSMoS) and Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound Projects via a series of Matlab codes, ensuring model stability, managing large volumes of data, and evaluating data and model quality.
-Design and develop computationally efficient modeling approaches and communication with online servers for real-time and offline applications. Build unstructured and curvilinear grids for complicated coastal settings, including protected coastal embayments and high-energy open coast settings.
-Perform model-model and model-measurement comparisons and error analyses, overall data analysis and interpretation, and dissemination of results.
-Prepare written reports or parts of reports describing data collection analysis techniques and interpretation. Present project results at meetings and conferences with assistance from supervisor.
-Collect and process high resolution beach and coastal bluff topographic data and nearshore bathymetry using Differential and Real-Time Kinematic GPS and a variety of surveying methods (walking, and ground and aerial structure-from-motion photogrammetry).
-Collect and maintain remote camera systems (ARGUS) to gather time-series imagery data of coastal processes; analyze remote camera data to characterize coastal processes (wave runup, beach change).
WORKING CONDITIONS:
Fieldwork may require moderate to strenuous activities such as hiking, swimming, wading, carrying up to 40 pounds, driving vehicles with trailers, and/or operating small vessels. Fieldwork is performed in and on the ocean, estuaries, and coastal lands and is subject to temperature extremes and hazardous conditions such as breaking waves and strong water currents and may include work in the water.
Qualifications
Eligibility RequirementsIn order to be eligible for an appointment under the Pathways Recent Graduate Program you must meet the following requirements: You must be a recent graduate who has completed, within the previous two years, an associates, bachelors, masters, professional, doctorate, vocational or technical degree or certificate from a qualifying educational institution such as an accredited technical or vocational school; a 2- or 4-year college or university; a graduate or professional school (e.g., law school, medical school); or a post-secondary home school curriculum. Note: Certificate program is defined as post-secondary education in a qualifying educational institution equal to at least one academic year of full-time study that’s part of an accredited college-level, technical, trade, vocational, or business school curriculum.
Veterans who were precluded from applying due to their military service obligation begin their 2-year eligibility period upon release or discharge from active duty; however, eligibility for these veterans cannot exceed 6 years from the date on which the degree or certificate was obtained.The date of release or discharge from active duty should be later than the date the degree or certificate was obtained. Qualification Requirements
For more information on basic qualifications, please click on the following: https://www.usgs.gov/about/organization/science-support/human-capital/geologist-gs-1350BASIC EDUCATION REQUIREMENT:All applicants must meet A or B below to satisfy the basic education requirement for GEOLOGISTat all grade levels: A. Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in geology. In addition to the geology course work included in the degree, it must also have included or been supplemented by 20 additional semester hours in any combination of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biological science, structural, chemical, civil, mining or petroleum engineering, computer science, planetary geology, comparative planetology, geophysics, meteorology, hydrology, oceanography, physical geography, marine geology, and cartography. OR A combination of education and experience-course work as shown in "A" above (24 semester hours or the equivalent in geology plus 20 additional semester hours or the equivalent in any combination of courses as specified in "A" above), plus appropriate experience and/or additional education for a total of 4 years. The education or combined education and experience must be comparable in type, scope and thoroughness to that acquired through successful completion of a 4-year course of study as described in "A" above. In addition to the basic education requirement as stated above, applicants must meet one of the following to qualify for the GS-09 level: Two years of progressively higher-level graduate education (36 semester hours, 54 quarter hours or the equivalent) leading to a master's degree in geology or other directly related field of study or master's or equivalent graduate degree in geology or other directly related field of study if it provided the knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to do the work of the position to be filled. OR
One year of appropriate professional experience in geology that is equivalent to at least the GS-07 level in the Federal service. Examples of such experience may include performing a variety of observations, computations, compilations and analyses in assisting higher level Geologists in carrying out geologic assignments. This work experience would have involved following established methods and procedures, or detailed instructions; using some judgment in applying basic principles and procedures, and would have required a good general working knowledge of the principles and the theories of geology.OR
A combination of successfully completed progressive graduate level education as described above that is beyond the first year of graduate study and professional experience, as described above. All applicants must meet qualification and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Pay Range
$56,051.00 - $72,862.00