Biology Assistant AmeriCorps

POSITION DETAILS

Position (s): 4321
Position Title: Biology Assistant - Ameri Corps
Conservation Legacy Program: Scientists in Parks, Stewards Individual Placements
Site

Location:

Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network, Kingston, Rhode Island
Number of positions available: 1

Duration: 12 Weeks (not flexible)
Flexible

Start Date:

Yes
Start Date: 06/01/2026
End Date: 08/24/2026
Ameri Corps Slot Classification: 450 hours - this is the minimum number of hours the selected candidate must serve throughout the duration of their position.

• Segal Ameri Corps Education Award
  : $1,956.35 upon successful completion of position
• Weekly Living Allowance: $700.00 per week, fixed rate
• Relocation Allowance: $450.00 (distributed as a one-time lump sum with first paycheck)
• Student Loan Forbearance if applicable (administered by My Ameri Corps , directly)
• Student Loan Interest Payments if applicable (administered through My Ameri Corps , directly)

Preference given to applicants who submit applications before Sunday, February 15, 2026. Applications will be reviewed after the Final date to receive applications passes. Positions will close after receiving 60 complete applications
, or at 11:59 p.m. EST on February 15, 2026, whichever occurs first.

Data Management, Coastal Ecology, Salt Marsh, Seagrass, Ecological Monitoring, Ecology, Natural Resources, Coastal Science

This Biology Assistant is an Ameri Corps position. One of the goals of the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M) is to help parks make sound science-based management decisions that help preserve America's special places. In order to meet this goal, the I&M Program must provide information in a variety of formats to park managers and staff and the public.

This position will help the NCBN meet these information needs and contribute to the mission of the program.

The duties will also contribute to the Network by filling a very important role related to
1) applying monitoring data to resource management;
2) science communication; and
3) data delivery, which are all goals of the I&M Program. Park managers are in need of not only the scientific reports that the Network develops, but communication material and online visualizers that make the information and data more readily available to them to use for planning and management of the coastal resources that they protect.

The Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network (NCBN) is one of 32 networks created by the National Park Service to implement ecological monitoring activities under the NPS Inventory and Monitoring program (I&M). The NCBN consists of eight parks linked by geography and shared natural resource characteristics, and extend from MA to VA. These eight parks together contain approximately 59,220 hectares (146,300 acres) of park lands, representing some of the most ecologically similar collections of lands within the National Park Service.

These parks protect vital coastal wetlands that are essential to water quality, fisheries, and the biological ecological variety of coastal, near shore, and terrestrial environments.

Depending on the participant's interest and experience, potential tasks could include:
1) Duties with scientists on data quality control and help them to prepare metadata for each data product they produce;
2) Organize photos and prepare photo metadata for archiving on NPGallery;
3) Collaborate with park staff to archive publications, related field documents, and resultant reports on Data Store;
4) Document database tables and fields using data dictionaries, entity-relationship diagrams, and technical descriptions of views, triggers, scripts, code documentation, etc.;
5) Create SOPs for data entry, manipulation, summarization, and output;
6) Create, update, and document data visualizations;
7) Update the NCBN website.

In addition, the participant will have the opportunity to collaborate with our team collecting field data, and traveling to the parks to collect seagrass, water quality data, salt marsh data and other ecological monitoring data.

Deliverables and products will depend on the SIP…