Oceans Brown Bag Tuesday 6/16 12:30PM, Zach Erickson

Very excited to hopefully see many of you (virtually) at our first Oceans Brown Bag lunch on Tuesday 6/16 12:30-1:30PM. 

Zach Erickson, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow in the GFSC Ocean Ecology Laboratory, has graciously volunteered to give the first short seminar. Zach works on problems in remote sensing of phytoplankton, submesoscale dynamics, and biophysical interaction. Talk title TBD.

More info to follow, but please put the time on your calendar. Join by visiting: https://groups.google.com/a/umd.edu/forum/#!forum/umd-ocean

Best,

Jacob

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Jacob Wenegrat
Assistant Professor
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Maryland, College Park
wenegrat@umd.edu | http://wenegrat.github.io
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NOAA Job Opportunities

NOAA's Office of Coast Survey Hydrographic Survey Division has Physical Scientist positions located in Silver Spring, MD, Norfolk, VA  in Seattle, WA that have been posted on USAJobs. 

1. Physical Scientist, Operations Branch = Silver Spring, MD

• Job Announcement # NOS-OCS-2020-0015   https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/568692000 
• Direct Hire Authority - Job Announcement # NOS-OCS-2020-0017   https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/568697000

      2.  Atlantic or Pacific Hydrographic Branch = Norfolk, VA or Seattle, WA

• Direct Hire Authority - Job Announcement # NOS-OCS-2020-0016 https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/568694500

The announcement will be open for 13 days; from Wednesday, May 20, 2020, and close on Monday, June 1, 2020.  

To qualify for a Physical Scientist job series, you must either have a degree in physical science, engineering, or mathematics or have a combination of education and experience in testing of hydrographic systems, industry standard software, research and planning of hydrographic surveys above would also qualify you.  All applicants need to have specialized experience detailed in the announcement.

These positions include a physical requirement that includes being comfortable ascending and descending rope ladders to embark/disembark from small boats for operations, life, wear and perform in equipment that weights up to 50 lbs and perform work on a moving ship. 

Coast Survey is the nation’s nautical chart-maker. We are responsible for upgrading charts, surveying the seafloor, responding to maritime emergencies, and searching for underwater obstructions that pose a danger to navigation.  Since what we do is very specialized, we'll teach you what you need to know in your training class and on the job as long as you come in with a strong foundation in physical geography and geographic information systems (and/or any of the related coursework listed above) and are ready to learn

Virtual Career Fair

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

11:00am - 3:00pm

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Event Details
Our virtual career fair offers the opportunity for current students and alumni to connect with diverse employers seeking to hire for full-time, internship and part-time opportunities across a variety of industries. The event will take place using the CareerEco virtual fair platform.

The platform will allow for chat-based interactions between candidates and employers. Employers will also be able to invite individual candidates to connect 1-on-1 conversations and virtual interviews.

U.S Census Bureau Career Opportunities

The US Census Bureau’s Demographic Programs Directorate has two new job announcements for Career–conditional (permanent) opportunities, which are found on USAJOBS.gov.  The Demographic Programs Directorate has 5 divisions and over 75 branches.

The vacancy announcements listed below opened on Monday, May 18, 2020 and will close at 11:59 p.m., EST on Monday,June 1, 2020.  

Announcement Number: ADDP-2020-0018

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill multiple GS-1530-07/09 Statistician (Demography) positions in the Demographic Programs Directorate.

https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/PrintPreview/568378300

Announcement Number: ADDP-2020-0017

This Direct Hire vacancy announcement may be used to fill multiple GS-1530-11/12 Statistician (Demography) positions in the Demographic Programs Directorate.

            https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/PrintPreview/568385900

Applicants can preview the vacancy questions by clicking on the link at the bottom of the Qualifications and Evaluations section of each announcement.

Applicants applying to these announcements should read the "who may apply" section carefully to determine their eligibility/area of consideration.

NOTE:
In order for applicants to search merit (status) job announcements, they must select "Federal Employees" on the search page in USAJOBS. The default choice is "U.S. Citizens" and, after clicking the "Search" button, will only display DE (public) announcements. Clicking "Federal Employees" and then the "Search" button will display both merit and DE announcements.