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This position is located in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) with vacancies in the following locations:

  • 1 vacancy for the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), Population and Ecosystems Monitoring Division (PEM), located in Ocean Springs, MS.
  • 2 vacancies for the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), Marine Mammal and Turtle Division (MMTD), located in Miami, FL; Pascagoula, MS; or Lafayette, LA.
  • 1 vacancy for the Southeast Fisheries Science Center (SEFSC), Fisheries, Assessment, Technology, and Engineering Support (FATES) Division, located in Pascagoula, MS.
  • 2 vacancies for the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), located in Honolulu, HI.
  • 1 vacancy for the Office of Science and Technology (OST), located in Seattle, WA or Silver Spring, MD.
  • 1 vacancy for the Western Coast Regional Office (WCR), Interior Columbia Basin Area Office (ICBD), located in Portland, OR.
  • 1 vacancy for the Alaskan Fisheries Science Center (AFSC), located in Seattle, WA.


As a Fish Biologist, you will perform the following duties:

  • Propose program objectives and priorities, content, funding, and allocation of resources, and new programs or projects. Develop briefings or reports for senior leadership to consider additional or revised programs or projects. Interpret and develop new precedents and guidelines requiring the use of advanced scientific techniques and the modification and extension of theories, and practices of the sciences and related disciplines. Integrate emerging technologies into program systems and concepts, and determine their impact on program/project tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Provide technical expertise to lead and perform complex analyses of scientific data and technical materials for the purpose of determining impacts on biological resources and aquatic habitats. Evaluate the effects of land and water development activities on various fish species, marine mammals, and aquatic habitats through a variety of scientific functions. Use judgment and ingenuity to exercise broad latitude to identify misinformation and validate scientific data. Convey the uncertainty of resource management alternatives, examine the consequences of climate change and other environmental factors, and evaluate sampling designs.
  • Contribute to or serve on a variety of international, national, regional, or local science or management bodies, including regional Fishery Management Councils, to provide expertise and to share program research plans and results. Provide expert consultative services to stakeholders in a variety of scientific fields of science. Serve as a primary technical expert for a variety of communities, government representatives, non-governmental organizations, and academia on fisheries or water resource management.
  • Write or review documents on scientific analyses and results for consumption by different stakeholders. Provide oversight over one or more phases of research work in facilitation of primary duties, including: determining research methodologies, planning and conducting experiments; collecting, analyzing and interpreting data; drawing conclusions, making recommendations for future work; and publishing findings. Mentor and review the work of lower-level scientists.

NOTE: These duties are described at the full performance level of the ZP-4; the ZP-3 is developmental leading to such performance.