Greetings
The Cumberland Piedmont Inventory and Monitoring Network is hiring two
full-time field assistants, starting in early May 2025, for a duration of 36
weeks.
The position went live on 12/4/2024 and will close after receiving 75
applications, or at 11:59 p.m. EST on Sunday, 19 January, 2025, whichever
occurs first.
The members’ primary responsibility will be assisting with analysis of imagery,
data entry, and fieldwork related to the monitoring of cave vital signs (cave
crickets/cave bats/cave aquatic biota) using established methods. The members’
secondary responsibility will be assisting crews with monitoring forest
vegetation, rare plants, ozone foliar injury, and invasive species early
detection. Other member opportunities may include but are not limited to 1)
working with a large aquatic insect collection (e.g., assigning specimens a
catalog number, labeling, inputting their associated data into Microsoft
Excel); 2) working with plant specimens entering data, applying labels, taking
photos and 3) water quality monitoring. The water quality monitoring project
schedule for this year includes 6 of our 14 parks. One of the parks is Mammoth
Cave National Park and is monitored monthly. The other 5 parks, located in
North and South Carolina, are monitored consecutively in a week’s time on a
quarterly basis. Members would record data and assist the sampler.
Please visit Biology Assistant - AmeriCorps at Conservation
Legacy<https://conservation-legacy.breezy.hr/p/027446fa7d86-biology-assistant-americorps>
for more information as well as instructions on how to apply.
Please visit Cumberland Piedmont Inventory & Monitoring Network (U.S. National
Park Service)<https://www.nps.gov/im/cupn/index.htm> to learn more about the
Cumberland Piedmont Inventory and Monitoring Network
Cheers
Kurt Lewis Helf
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Kurt Lewis Helf, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
Cave Ecologist
Collateral Duty EEO Counselor/Mediator
National Park Service
Cumberland Piedmont Network
P.O. Box 8
OR
NPS Warehouse
61 Maintenance Rd.
Mammoth Cave, KY 42259
Ph: 270-758-2163
Lab: 270-758-2151
Fax: 270-758-2609
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Cumberland Piedmont Network Homepage<https://www.nps.gov/im/cupn/index.htm>
Cave Aquatic Biota Monitoring
Website<https://www.nps.gov/im/cupn/cave-aquatic-biota.htm>
Cave Cricket Monitoring Website<https://www.nps.gov/im/cupn/cave-crickets.htm>
Science, in constantly seeking real explanations, reveals the true majesty of
our world in all its complexity.
-Richard Dawkins
[Scientific] theories are passed on not as dogmas but rather with the challenge
to discuss them and improve upon them.
-Karl Popper
...consider yourself a guest in the home of other creatures as significant as
yourself.
-Wayside at Wilderness Threshold in McKittrick Canyon, Guadalupe Mountains
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