Wildlife monitoring technicians (~5) are needed to help with Iowa’s Multiple Species Inventory and Monitoring (MSIM) program. Applicants will work as part of a research and monitoring team to collect information on birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and mussels on public lands throughout Iowa for the 20th field season of MSIM. Field work for all positions will be conducted throughout the state of Iowa with significant travel during the workday. Specific job duties include (but are not limited to) identifying, handling, and marking small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, maintaining a variety of traps for small mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and fish, conducting surveys for and handling butterflies and odonates, identifying, bird point counts, and measuring plant species, data entry, and assisting with other tasks as needed Positions are temporary, full-time (maximum of 40 hours/week) starting March 24th and ending October 15th, 2024, with potentia...
