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APPLY NOW   Public Land Name: Fort Matanzas National Monument Position Title: Interpretation/Resource Management Assistant [Mosaics] Agency: NPS Position Type: Mosaics Position ID Number: 2015212 Location: St. Augustine, FL Accepting Applications? # of current Applicants: 0 Position Description: The participant will spend 50% of their time developing and delivering science-based interpretive programs to the visiting public on a scheduled, daily basis. These efforts will help Fort Matanzas National Monument work towards its NPS Centennial goal of increasing/enhancing visitor opportunities to experience the natural resources of the approximately 300 acres of a wild barrier island. These will consist of both formal and informal interpretive methods, include walks and/or talks on a wide variety of resource-based themes, informal interpretive roving, and youth engagement. The participant will spend the remaining 50% of their time assisting the park’s natural resource manager with a variety of resource management fieldwork, including: sea turtle nesting patrols/nest management and evaluation/processing of stranded turtles, shorebird nest and chick monitoring, turtle and shorebird predator monitoring, exotic plant monitoring and management, assisting with the park’s annual nature camp for children, insect pest monitoring, beach sign maintenance, natural resource photo and GPS monitoring, red tide monitoring, gopher tortoise management, researching and posting natural resource information, trash mitigation, assisting with injured wildlife, and monitoring for threatened and endangered species. This is a Mosaics in Science position. The Mosaics in Science Program is run in partnership with the National Park Service and The Geological Society of America. If you have questions about the application and selection process, please contact GSA's GeoCorps managers.  If you have questions about any aspect of the position — description, qualifications, housing, dates — please direct them to the contact(s) listed in the project description. Remember, application materials can only be submitted online. The project contact(s) will not accept application materials sent to them via e-mail, mail, fax, etc. See the full program details at the GeoCorps homepage.