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Public Land Name: North Cascade National Park Service Complex Position Title: Landslide Management Assistant [Guest Scientist] Agency: NPS Position Type: GuestScientist Position ID Number: 2015617 Location: Marblemount, WA Accepting Applications? # of current Applicants: 0 Position Description: North Cascades National Park Service Complex seeks a geologist to assist with management of landslides in late summer and fall 2015. The geologist should have training and experience as a geomorphologist because the position will require knowledge of surficial geology including glacial, fluvial, and mass wasting processes and landforms. Knowledge of the geology and geologic history of the region is also necessary, as are ability with GIS (ArcMap) and database management software (Excel). The geologist will assist with projects at Olympic and North Cascades national parks in Washington. At Olympic National Park (OLYM) the first task will be to finish the mass-wasting component of a landform map by comparing mapped units to recently acquired LiDAR (light distance and ranging) based data for a large part of the park. Any landslides not previously identified will be digitized into a GIS. The second task will be to complete a partially-populated database of the characteristics of all mapped landslides. These include features such as volume, sediment delivery to streams, approximate age, etc. At North Cascades National Park (NOCA), the geologist will assist with a risk assessment of debris flows in the Stehekin Valley near the head of Lake Chelan in east-central Washington. LiDAR data will be used to map 10 debris torrent systems on the northeast side of the valley, many of which have become active in the past 6 years. Features of interest include debris source area, canyons, and debris cones on the floor of Stehekin Valley, as well as estimates of the volume of recent flows. On some of the debris cones we will attempt to find evidence of the age of past events by radiocarbon dating of buried organic material and by the presence/absence of volcanic ash on ancient debris flow deposits. The position will be stationed at the NPS office in Marblemount, Washington, and work for NOCA geologist Dr. Jon Riedel. Most of the work will be completed in the office, although a few field trips to OLYM and Stehekin may be required to verify landforms identified by LiDAR and not captured in initial mapping. The window for completing this project is August-November 2015. 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.