Student Trainee Hydrology GS 03-05

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Student Trainee (Hydrology), GS 03-05
Duties: The student will be serving in a trainee capacity, performing routine and recurring development assignments to acquire knowledge and understanding of functions, principles, practices, and methods used in the area of Hydrology. Preparing summary of findings, tables, and graphs for use in technical reports and presentations. Developing hydrologic and precipitation data for current projects. Gathering basic hydrologic data (quantity, quality, availability, movement and distribution of water). Collecting and processing data to be used in computing stream discharge, determining ground water availability or calculating sediment in the field collecting hydrologic data such as streamflow measurements, groundwater levels, and water quality samples. Compiling, querying, and maintaining groundwater and surface water records in scientific databases to evaluate water quality, water availability, and water use. Utilizing ArcGIS scripting (such as python scripts) to automate data processing and repetitive GIS tasks. Operating a government owned vehicle on a regular basis.

Additional Duties for GS-05: Collecting hydrologic data, preserving water samples for analysis, making discharge measurements, running levels to gages and wells. Checking discharge measurement computations, computing mean daily gage heights or preparing digital recorder tapes, computing and compiling daily discharge values. Assisting higher graded Hydrologists with performing project work. Installing, maintaining, servicing, and troubleshooting sensing, recording, and communications equipment and instrumentation. Calibrating meters and analytical equipment through appropriate technique and protocol. Developing simple preliminary stage-discharge and/or velocity index curves and ratings. Writing reports on non-complex hydrologic studies.

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