Responsibilities

As a Hydrologist within the Washington Water Science Center, some of your specific duties will include:

• Develops and leads water-quality modeling studies designed to determine impacts of various stressors on water quality conditions, and to predict future water conditions using mechanistic or statistical models.
• Prepares investigative project proposals and develops work plans and protocols.
• Determines the overall nature, scope, and approach for water-resources investigations that will most effectively address identified hydrologic problems and needs.
• Serves as consultant and advisor to supervisors and other scientists of the office on matters pertaining to specialized knowledge, and assists in training inexperienced personnel in areas of expertise including techniques of data collection and analysis.
• Writes clear, timely, and authoritative interpretive technical articles and reports that document the objectives, scope, approach, results. and conclusions of water-resource investigations or selected elements of such investigations.
• Operates a government vehicle as an incidental driver.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

Work assignments normally involve 90 percent office and 10 percent field effort. Office assignments are generally sedentary. Occasional physical activities required in field assignments, include walking, bending, stooping, and carrying stream gaging and chemical and biological sampling equipment. Field work may occasionally require lifting fairly heavy objects and wading in streams in all types of weather.

Office assignments normally involve everyday risk or discomforts that are typically of office meeting and training rooms, libraries, and residences or commercial vehicles. Work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated. Field work may expose hydrologists to potentially dangerous situations and exposure to moderate discomfort from such extremes as heat, cold, and inclement weather, particularly on flood trips during severe storms.

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