Lynker

Technician

• Candidate must be capable of performing duties at sea within harsh weather environments.
• Requires electronic, electrical and limited mechanical assembly work at the industrial facilities and remote station locations of the NDBC network in support of all operational missions and programs (Weather Buoy, DART, TAO, and C-MAN) as well as considerable travel, including at sea onboard U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA, University, or private vessels.
• Perform field assignments as a member or team leader for installation, troubleshooting, repair and de-installation.
• Experience with the loading and offloading of equipment.
• Knowledge of computer skills Microsoft office suite for completion of test and field related documentation.
• Any other duties as assigned.

Electronics Technician Maintenance I – Sea-going

Data Engineer

• Provide statistical analysis to inform management decisions
• Statistically analyze spatial and temporal variability in processes experienced by migrating salmon in river systems
• Analyze survival and migration patterns through hydropower systems and across salmon life cycles
• Analyze and generate relationships between fish responses, including density, growth, survival, and migration rate, and stressors such as environmental or ecological conditions, habitat metrics, and management actions
• Develop novel probabilistic mathematical and simulation models representing unique and complex ecological and behavioral processes using modern statistical methods
• Provide statistical support for other researchers during study design and analysis
• Organize and curate ecological datasets relevant to mark-recapture modeling needs
• Document and share reproducible research workflows and analytical protocols to support scientific transparency and peer collaboration
• Publish reports and scientific papers, and present results at regional and national meetings and scientific conferences, as needed
• Assist with field collection of fish and environmental data in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments of the West Coast region, as needed
• Support analysis products archived in accessible and organized formats, including final data and models shared through public scientific repositories or interactive research dashboards
• Prepare written status reports and other ad hoc communications, as needed

Senior Fisheries Data Scientist – Salmon Survival, Migration, Mark-Recapture Modeling

Data Analyst

• Develop and advance the Comprehensive Passage (COMPASS) model for application in river systems.
• Evaluate effects of stressors and management actions across fish life cycles using statistical modeling, computer modeling, statistical analysis, quantitative ecological analysis, and other quantitative modeling techniques.
• Construct and implement models evaluating survival and migration through the hydropower system.
• Address requests by the West Coast Regional Office in support of ESA litigation and permitting.
• Collaborate with regional managers and researchers to structure, synthesize, and manage environmental and biological data relevant to modeling needs.
• Document and share reproducible research workflows and analytical products so others can easily interact with them and understand what was done.
• Write reports, contribute to journal manuscripts, and present results at regional and national meetings and scientific conferences, as needed.
• Assist with field collection of fish and environmental data in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments of the West Coast region, as needed.
• Support development of assigned statistical and biological modeling components and integrate them into COMPASS and life cycle models for the Columbia River basin and others, as needed.
• Share modeling scripts, scientific methods, and research results through open-science platforms, such as GitHub.
• Prepare written status reports and other ad hoc communications, as needed.

Quantitative Analyst – COMPASS, Salmon Life Cycle Modeling

Operations

• Lead field collection of biological and environmental data in estuarine and marine environments.
• Support the transition from traditional analog recording to digital data collection platforms, such as electronic measuring boards and ruggedized tablets.
• Evaluate and implement new field technologies to improve at-sea efficiency.
• Develop rigorous eDNA protocols and oversee field-based collection, preservation, and chain-of-custody of environmental DNA water samples.
• Ensure adherence to at-sea anti-contamination protocols for eDNA sampling.
• Serve as the primary operational liaison to the ’Omics laboratory personnel to ensure field samples are appropriately prepared for bioinformatics processing.
• Design and implement automated data pipelines to streamline transfer of data from ship to shore.
• Develop scripts or workflows that rapidly generate preliminary data products, cruise summaries, and visualization tools immediately following field operations.
• Maintain project databases to improve organization, accessibility, and usability for interdisciplinary team members.
• Ensure historical and newly digitized datasets are standardized and accessible for analysis.
• Direct mobilization and demobilization of project equipment using modern inventory tracking systems.
• Synthesize methodological improvements and field results by authoring technical reports, contributing to journal manuscripts, and presenting workflow modernization strategies at regional and national scientific meetings.
• Develop and implement standardized, reproducible procedures to format, QA/QC, and transition raw at-sea biological observations into analysis-ready scientific formats.
• Produce near-real-time cruise summaries, data visualization tools, and standardized datasets that accelerate management decision making.
• Develop digital Standard Operating Procedures for digital data collection methods, eDNA field sampling protocols, and database structures.

Field Operations and Data Modernization Specialist

Data Scientist

• Compile, organize, and analyze large-scale spatial and temporal datasets.
• Evaluate effects of localized environmental conditions on predator-prey distributions and predation rates on managed fish populations.
• Synthesize analytical findings by authoring technical reports and peer-reviewed journal manuscripts.
• Present complex research results at regional management meetings and scientific conferences.
• Conduct literature reviews to summarize and document relationships among predator consumption rates, predator abundance and distribution, observed ecological outcomes, potential environmental stressors, and shifting environmental conditions.
• Support physical collection of fish and environmental data in freshwater and marine environments of the West Coast region.
• Safely operate outdoors in potentially harsh conditions, with field work that may involve driving federal vehicles, boats, and trailers.
• Standardize and share compiled data, comprehensive workflow protocols, and research products to ensure transparent, reproducible, and interactive methodologies for internal partners and external stakeholders.
• Prepare completed technical reports, peer-reviewed journal manuscripts, and/or book chapters ready for submission or publication.
• Deliver research presentations and analytical briefings to NWFSC colleagues, regional managers, and broader scientific audiences.
• Develop cleaned, compiled datasets, including predator diet composition, bioenergetics data, or abundance indices, sourced from existing databases or extracted through literature reviews.
• Maintain shared repositories, such as GitHub, containing datasets and analytical scripts.
• Develop fully documented, reproducible analytical workflows in written reports, manuscripts, and version-controlled code repositories.

Quantitative Fisheries Scientist – Predation Modeling, Data Synthesis

General

• Lead the design, testing, and operational deployment of advanced hydrologic models and forecasting techniques.
• Serve as the authoritative liaison between researchers, Lynker management, and client leadership; successfully negotiate and align research capabilities with operational constraints.
• Oversee the technical integration of new modeling systems into forecasting systems, ensuring robustness and reliability for critical public safety forecasts.
• Direct high-level data analysis and visualization efforts to validate model performance, ensemble forecast generation, and reservoir inflow predictions.
• Act as a subject matter expert and mentor to junior hydrologists and forecasting staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence.
• Evaluate existing operational workflows and author recommendations for modernization that enhance efficiency and forecast accuracy.
• Lead the preparation of high-impact annual scientific reports and peer-reviewed journal articles; represent the project as a keynote or primary presenter at national scientific conferences.

Hydrologist

Research Analyst

• Collect fish and environmental data in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments of the West Coast region.
• Conduct field work outdoors in or around water, including in sometimes harsh conditions.
• Drive vehicles and/or boats and trailers, and provide occasional assistance on ship surveys lasting days to weeks, as needed.
• Implement occasional laboratory experiments and data processing activities.
• Conduct data visualization and analysis.
• Conduct literature reviews to extract data and published relationships between ecological outcomes and potential stressors or habitat metrics.
• Collaborate with team members to produce tools that improve transparency and efficiency of management decision making and permitting.
• Share comprehensive workflow protocols and research products so others can easily interact with them and understand what was done.
• Write reports, contribute to journal manuscripts, and present results at regional meetings and scientific conferences, as needed.
• Participate reliably in field and/or laboratory activities coordinated by the NWFSC.
• Document that samples or data were collected, stored, and processed using established protocols.
• Maintain reproducible workflows and store analysis products in an accessible and organized way.
• Provide written status reports and other ad hoc communications, as needed.

Fisheries Research Associate – Field, Lab, Data Support

Business Analyst

• Compile and organize existing large spatial and temporal datasets for evaluating effects of management actions on managed fish or shellfish populations in freshwater, estuarine, or nearshore marine environments of the Pacific Northwest
• Conduct literature reviews to extract data and published relationships between ecological outcomes and potential stressors or habitat metrics
• Collect fish and environmental data in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments of the West Coast region
• Conduct field work outdoors in or around water, including in sometimes harsh conditions
• Drive vehicles and/or boats and trailers, and provide occasional assistance on ship surveys lasting days to weeks, as needed
• Lead data processing and visualization
• Share compiled data, comprehensive workflow protocols, and research products so others can easily interact with them and understand what was done
• Write reports, contribute to journal manuscripts, and present results at regional meetings and scientific conferences, as needed
• Store datasets compiled from existing sources or extracted from literature reviews in an accessible and organized way
• Support interactive data dashboards backed by code repositories, where appropriate
• Document reproducible workflows in written reports and code repositories
• Provide written status reports and other ad hoc communications, as needed

Fisheries Analyst – Ecological Response, Management Scenarios

• Integrate spatial and remotely sensed datasets across freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine habitats using advanced GIS analysis
• Compute spatial indices from large datasets, including prey availability, predator abundance, and habitat conditions, for use in assessment tools
• Contribute to incorporation of spatial datasets and indices into fish life cycle models used to evaluate management scenarios
• Lead data processing and visualization
• Share compiled data, comprehensive workflow protocols, and research products so others can easily interact with them and understand what was done
• Collect fish and environmental data in freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine environments of the West Coast region
• Conduct field work outdoors in or around water, including in sometimes harsh conditions
• Write reports, contribute to journal manuscripts, and present results at regional meetings and scientific conferences, as needed
• Store datasets produced by geospatial analysis in an accessible and organized way
• Support interactive data dashboards backed by code repositories, where appropriate
• Document reproducible workflows in written reports and code repositories

Geospatial Fisheries Analyst – Salmon Habitat and Life Cycle Modeling

• Analyze spatial and temporal variability in abundance and composition of fish, their prey, competitors, predators, and habitats.
• Analyze and generate relationships between fish responses, including density, biomass, growth, and survival, and stressors such as environmental or ecological conditions, habitat metrics, management actions, and related factors in particular life stages.
• Contribute programming and spatial analysis expertise to construction and implementation of fish life cycle, also known as stock assessment, models and simulations.
• Support models and simulations used to evaluate cumulative effects of stressors and management actions across fish life cycles in support of sustainable fisheries.
• Emphasize incorporation of ecological interactions, including predators and prey, and expansion of model component complexity in estuary and nearshore domains.
• Share comprehensive workflow protocols and research products so others can easily interact with them and understand what was done.
• Write reports, contribute to journal manuscripts, and present results at regional meetings and scientific conferences, as needed.
• Document reproducible workflows.
• Share computer scripts and methods in an open-source framework such as GitHub.
• Store analysis products in an accessible and organized way.
• Share data and models in an open-source framework such as an online data dashboard and/or data repository.
• Provide written status reports and other ad hoc communications, as needed.

Quantitative Fisheries Scientist – Life Cycle Modeling and Management Analysis

• Maintain familiarity with the Resilience Challenge’s community resilience efforts in California and across the West Coast region in order to understand project needs and work to address them.
• Engage in-person regularly with Resilience Challenge partners and in the communities served by the Resilience Challenge project in California.
• Serve in the role of Technical Assistance Coordinator for the Resilience Challenge project in California.
• Help monitor the Washington and Alaska tasks to support the respective team members as needed.
• Provide technical assistance directly to Resilience Challenge partners and project communities.
• Make connections with NOAA and other federal agencies and external partners to deliver additional technical expertise and services.
• Assist with developing training and other learning products to support the needs of Resilience Challenge efforts.
• Deliver OCM training to Resilience Challenge projects and serve as a national trainer on nature-based solutions.
• Facilitate meetings, workshops and other events with project partners.
• Act as a liaison to communicate NOAA resources to partners and assist with communicating on-the-ground accomplishments to NOAA.
• Perform grant management and administration responsibilities in coordination with federal staff, including providing advice on grants, cooperative agreements, and project budgets.
• Coordinate tasks and activities with other staff supporting the Resilience Challenge.
• Serve as the West Coast Resilience Challenge coordinator to coordinate across Resilience Challenge projects in the West Coast region.
• Assist with OCM project coordination.
• Work with regional leadership to represent the Office and NOAA at local and regional events in support of the Resilience Challenge and other regional efforts.
• Provide local support, expertise and networking for the Coastal Resilience Fellows hosted by project partners.
• Support and participate in the national Resilience Challenge Peer-to-peer Gathering.
• Provide convening support for local and regional peer-to-peer sharing events to reach coastal community audiences beyond the project partners.
• Make connections with and provide support as needed to Resilience Challenge projects that are outside of California and the West Coast.

Coastal Management Specialist

• Serve as the contract liaison for Guam’s Coral Reef Conservation Program: Provide management assistance to Guam’s coral reef management program to maintain programs and meet all program requirements.
• Provide technical assistance in the areas of coral reef conservation, planning, and management; coral disease and disturbance prevention, preparedness and response; restoration ecology; and coral reef fisheries and watershed management.
• Coordinate with jurisdiction coral reef points of contact and other appropriate agencies on NOAA Coral Program activities in the region.
• Coordinate with federal partners in the development and implementation of initiatives in priority areas that are consistent with Coral Program goals and objectives.
• Support annual Coral Program planning process, including: fielding questions from, and coordinating calls with, potential principal investigators and local partners; conducting technical reviews of proposals; and providing implementation support to awarded projects.
• Support development and implementation of a coral reef action plan in partnership with relevant Government of Guam agencies.
• Conduct site visits or fieldwork to assist or assess Coral Program activities.
• Coordinate with Guam and NOAA’s federal program officer to negotiate, process, amend, and monitor the block grants and cooperative funding agreements; and provide technical reviews of other Coral Program funding grants and agreements.
• Provide guidance to Guam on their responsibility to ensure documentation on all coral reef projects, including permits; completion of financial requirements and environmental compliance; and adequate monitoring of ongoing coral reef management and restoration projects.
• Provide an interface between Guam’s work to address coral reef conservation and coastal management challenges.
• Provide information to outreach and communications staff for the development of locally-tailored coral reef outreach and education materials.
• Support implementation of the reauthorized Coral Reef Conservation Act in Guam including: the management of block grants and cooperative agreements to Guam , technical review and support for other grant programs such as the Ruth D. Gates Coral Reef Conservation Grant and the NFWF Coral Reef Stewardship and Emergency Response Funds, the development and implementation of Coral Reef Action Plans, the implementation of the National Coral Resilience Strategy in Guam, the development and implementation of Coral Reef Stewardship partnerships in Guam , the participation of Guam in the US Coral Reef Task Force and its working groups, and the implementation of the Susan L. Williams National Coral Reef Management Fellowship.
• Serve as the contract liaison for Guam’s Coastal Zone Management Program: Provide support and assistance to Guam’s implementation of its coastal zone management program approved under the Coastal Zone Management Act.

• The primary duty of a UxS Operator is to stand pilot watches with the responsibility of maintaining the safety of the public and of the vessel while at sea under semi-autonomous operations.
• 8-12hr night or day watches based in a regional Remote Operating Center, or from a host vessel at sea
• Ensure the safety of navigation and situational awareness of the vehicle during operations
• Additional duties include monitoring vessel status feedback, telemetry stability and configuration, and basic data acquisition control
• Operators are responsible for troubleshooting technical and software issues, and relaying that information to the watch supervisor.
• Proper record keeping during watches and in diagnostic scenarios

Uncrewed Vessel Operator

• Support the maintenance, service, and repairs of the UxS as required to effectively support operations.
• Technicians are responsible for troubleshooting technical and software issues, and relaying that information to the field supervisor.
• Training new pilots and UxS operators.
• Work directly with the project leadership in planning, troubleshooting, and emergency procedures.
• Collaborating with other operators and watchstanders for UxS missions.
• Coordinating and leading the mobilization and demobilization of the UxS before and after operations; including breakdown, containerization, and rigging for travel.

Uncrewed Systems Technician

• Provide support services to satisfy the overall operational objectives of promoting the protection, conservation, and recovery of anadromous fish, marine fish, invertebrates and their habitat.
• Assist the Government in meeting its authorities under the statutes and mandates of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) and Magnuson–Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA).
• Assist NMFS with the review and technical comments of biological assessments
• Evaluate and analyze effects of proposed actions, conservation measures, and mitigation activities on ESA-listed species
• Develop recommendations on ways to minimize adverse effects to ESA-listed fish and their habitat, and EFH associated with proposed actions
• Participate in internal and external meetings that support the purpose of the consultation.
• Assist NMFS in preparing and reviewing section 7 consultation letters, biological opinions, incidental take permits, transmittal memos, briefing documents, national environmental policy act documents, and other written documents, as needed
• Maintain administrative records in accordance with CCO filing procedures.

Electronics Technician Maintenance I – Sea-going

Senior Fisheries Data Scientist – Salmon Survival, Migration, Mark-Recapture Modeling

Quantitative Analyst – COMPASS, Salmon Life Cycle Modeling

Field Operations and Data Modernization Specialist

Quantitative Fisheries Scientist – Predation Modeling, Data Synthesis

Hydrologist

Fisheries Research Associate – Field, Lab, Data Support

Fisheries Analyst – Ecological Response, Management Scenarios

Geospatial Fisheries Analyst – Salmon Habitat and Life Cycle Modeling

Quantitative Fisheries Scientist – Life Cycle Modeling and Management Analysis

Coastal Management Specialist

Coastal Management Specialist

Uncrewed Vessel Operator

Uncrewed Systems Technician

Endangered Species Act & Magnuson-Stevens Act Support