Responsibilities
- Assist biologists with in-water restoration projects, generating reports, and day to day operations.
- Candidates should be comfortable working on/ in the water and spending long days outside in all Florida weather conditions.
- Candidates should be comfortable swimming in all types of water (previous experience is preferred).
- Candidates with technical writing skills and the ability to generate basic scientific monitoring reports, and data analysis skills preferred.
- Candidates should possess adequate Microsoft Word, Excel, and Power Point skills.
- Candidates should be able, or willing to learn, to operate boats and other small watercrafts.
- Candidates may be asked to travel up to four nights/week (travel expenses are reimbursed).
A typical day working as a field biologist for Sea & Shoreline may range anywhere from sitting at a computer copying field data into Excel, to hours under or on the water, operating a 30-ft barge on a seagrass restoration project. Although Sea & Shoreline specializes in seagrass, they possess the equipment, skills, and expertise to take on any aquatic restoration/ mitigation project. Sea & Shoreline is currently working all throughout the state of Florida, from the panhandle to the Keys. Their methods are deeply rooted in scientific principles. By joining Sea & Shoreline, you are joining a team of passionate biologists, farmers, veterans, and businessmen and women who take pride in their work and strive towards putting out a product unlike any other.
Compensation: $42,000 – $52,000 annually