June 1, 2010
Los Angeles County SD Senior Laboratory Technician
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The Los Angeles District's Ocean Monitoring Research Group performs biological and environmental analysis and assessment as part the agency's marine monitoring and research program under regulatory and research requirements. This is a multi-disciplinary program conducted in response to District's research and State of California NPDES permit requirements. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts is seeking a Senior Laboratory Technician for the Ocean Monitoring Research Group at the Joint Water Pollution Plant in Carson, CA. The successful candidate conducts or participates in the collection and analysis for a variety of biological, chemical, and physical oceanographic samples as part of the District's Ocean Monitoring Program. Within the laboratory, maintains taxonomic documents and resources as directed; performs quality control checks of infaunal sample sorting; performs fish and invertebrate tissue resection for bioaccumulation studies; provides electronic dataset handling efforts; processes and analyses aquatic sediments for qualitative determinations and quantitative grain size analysis; provides preliminary taxonomic determinations of marine invertebrates and fish.
At sea the incumbent, participates in a broad array of oceanographic and biological sampling and analysis: the incumbent operates and navigates a 26 foot motor vessel in open coastal waters, assists in oceanographic sampling by means of a CTD water column profiling and light irradiance measuring packages, including calibration and troubleshooting; rigs and deploys oceanographic sampling gear such as otter trawls, sediment grabs, sample bottles, and uses shipboard winches and capstans or other specialized gear and equipment; utilizes scuba in collecting samples and conducting surveys as a member of the Ocean Monitoring Group's dive team. Visit here.
Posted by Dida at June 1, 2010 1:59 PM
