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Survey Technician Bureau of Land M Throughout Arkan 2011-01-03 2011-08-31

easuring or turning points in consideration of terrain and demands of the type of survey involved; serving as pacer of a leveling party, going ahead of the party and determining in advance the positions roadcrew will occupy so that shots will be balanced and instruments can be kept level; OR Successful completion of  2 years of postsecondary  education that included 12 semester hours in any combination of courses such  as surveying, engineering, and industrial technology, engineering, industrial technology, construction, physics, drafting, forestry, geography, navigation, cartography, physical science, or mathematics; OR  A combination of experience and education to meet the total  experience.GS-5, Survey Technician : 1 year or  twelve months of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-4 level. Examples of specialized experience may include conducting surveys, typically with an assistant, using hand instruments such as hand levels and compasses, making simple traverse surveys

Research Physiologist - (Postd Agricultural Res Stuttgart 2010-11-01 2011-11-01

Field to TableThe Agricultural Research Service (ARS) is the United States Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research agency and one of the world's premiere scientific organization.  ARS Postdoctoral Research Associates are hired to supplement a lead scientist's research on agricultural problems of high national priority effecting American agriculture.  **ANNOUNCEMENT IS OPENED UNTIL FILLED.**Additional Duty Location Info:1 vacancy - Stuttgart, ARYou will develop and test new molecular assays using quantitative real-time PCR (rtPCR) or similar technologies for genetic selection of hybrid striped bass better adapted to alternate diet formulations aimed at replacing fishmeal in commercial diets. You will optimize or develop assays from available sequence data for moronids (striped bass, white bass, or European sea bass) or by isolating and sequencing regions of interest that have not already been characterized. Probes and primers specific to the target gene will be d