Soil Scientist
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Overview
Open & closing dates: 02/07/2020 to 04/06/2020
Salary: $34,916 to $68,777 per year
Overview
Open & closing dates: 02/07/2020 to 04/06/2020
Salary: $34,916 to $68,777 per year
Pay scale & grade: GS 5 - 9
Appointment type: Permanent
Work schedule :Full-Time
Summary
Incumbent is responsible for maintenance, interpretation, distribution of soil survey information; training and support to users of soil survey information; assisting with conservation planning, highly erodible land, wetland determinations, environmental assessments, natural resource management activities; leadership, technical review, guidance in the application of soil survey information.
Appointment type: Permanent
Work schedule :Full-Time
Summary
Incumbent is responsible for maintenance, interpretation, distribution of soil survey information; training and support to users of soil survey information; assisting with conservation planning, highly erodible land, wetland determinations, environmental assessments, natural resource management activities; leadership, technical review, guidance in the application of soil survey information.
Responsibilities
- Utilizes soil-landscape relationships to systematically map and describe the way soils occur in the landscape.
- Identifies and acquires the appropriate spatial data layers necessary to create and maintain a digitally-based soils map.
- Determines and applies principles, practices, and methods to apply plant species identification and the use of plants as indicators of soil type, ecological sites, and soil-site and topographic relationships.
- Assists Soil Scientist and/or the MLRA Soil Survey Leader to document soil-plant relationships, collect production estimates for crops, trees and grasses and develop/gather other information for ecological site descriptions.
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