Hydrologic Technician
Closing date:
Salary:
$17.31 an hour
- Develops, assembles, evaluates, adapts, and presents in tabular or graphic form, technical data in the fields of water data collection, stage data, stream discharge, rainfall, and wind gaging that includes special flow computations.
- Develops, assembles, evaluates, adapts, and presents in tabular or graphic form, technical data in the fields of current velocity analyses, flow and discharge estimations, and special data collection and study programs.
- Prepares criteria for use in calibrating stream flow in open and controlled channels.
- Makes detailed analyses for use by hydrologists and engineers in considering possibility of applying engineering theories to the rise and fall of water, water slopes, natural and artificial controls, and etcetera.
- Collects data from field recording instruments and makes on-site measurements of study area conditions. Assists on field survey crews in the collection of resource data.
- Prepares a variety of charts, graphs, and figures for data analysis and publication. Prepares correspondence, in draft form, relating to all phases of the work, and initiates directives for securing data needed.
- Maintains liaison with other elements of the Forest and Ranger District, with Forest Service personnel at higher echelons, with other Federal, state, and local agencies.
- Maintains liaison with other elements of the Forest and Ranger District with public and private interests having a common interest in the collection and dissemination of the hydrological data.
- Services, repairs, and installs a variety of hydrologic instruments.
