Water Jobs - March 2017

Current Openings:

Stream Restoration Specialist, VA Department of Environmental Quality (#P4464) – Job Closing Date: March 31, 2017 – Richmond, VA --https://jobs.agencies.virginia.gov/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=1167146

Stormwater Training Specialist, VA Department of Environmental Quality (#P0462) – Job Closing Date: March 31, 2017 – Richmond, VA --https://virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/69472

Environmental Engineer Senior, Virginia Department of Health (04555) – Closing Date: March 31, 2017 – Abingdon, VA -- https://virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=&query_v0_posted_at_date=&628%5B%5D=129&693%5B%5D=55&627=&696=&commit=Search

Environmental Protection Specialist, DC Department of Energy and Environment (JO-1703-8181) -- Job Closing Date: April 5, 2017 --http://careers.dc.gov/ts2__JobDetails?jobId=a0K1600000kAh8DEAS&tSource=

Water Withdrawal Permit Writer, VA Department of Environmental Quality (P4333 & P4492) – Closing Date:  April 7, 2017 – Richmond, VA --http://www.deq.virginia.gov/AboutUs/Employment/DEQJobs.aspx

Program Manager I: Partnership Development, Montgomery County [MD] Government, Dept. of Environmental Protection (#IRC24654) – Job Closing Date: April 13, 2017 – Rockville, MD -- https://ex12.montgomerycountymd.gov/ojn1/ijn1/OA_HTML/OA.jsp?page=/oracle/apps/irc/candidateSelfService/webui/VisVacDispPG&OAHP=IRC_EXT_SITE_VISITOR_APPL&OASF=IRC_VIS_VAC_DISPLAY&akRegionApplicationId=821&transactionid=1970914421&retainAM=N&addBreadCrumb=RP&p_svid=24654&p_spid=1079489&oapc=6&oas=2qOdriSxy58EjC6CxlN3hw..

Chesapeake Conservation Corps Member – Applications due: April 14, 2017 (5pm) – Multiple Host Sites Throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed --https://cbtrust.org/prospective/

Communications Intern, The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay – Applications Due: April 14, 2017 – Annapolis, MD -- http://www.chesapeakebay.net/jobs

Environmental Health Director - Office of Drinking Water, Virginia Department of Health (03976) -- Open Until Filled -- Richmond, VA --https://virginiajobs.peopleadmin.com/postings/70705

Communications & Outreach Associate, Potomac Riverkeeper Network – Washington, DC -- http://www.potomacriverkeepernetwork.org/careers/

From the Fast Company Blog

Replacing Farms With Fish Farms: The Odd Solution To Both Hunger And Climate Change

Imagine a world where polluting, resource-intensive cow, pig, and chicken farms are replaced with giant tanks of fast-growing salmon. It might be a strange view of agriculture, but a potential huge shift in how we feed the planet.

By Ben Paynter03.13.17 | 6:00 am

It may be the dead of winter, and the nation’s capital city may not be coastal, but this month marks the start of a distinct version of salmon season in and around Washington, D.C. Restaurants ranging from the iconic Chart House in Alexandria and Annapolis to all seven of critically acclaimed Top Chef contestant Bryan Voltaggio’s eateries will be offering preparations of a different kind of locally sourced fish on their menus.

It has the potential to dramatically change the world map of seafood.

Meanwhile, the grocery store Wegmans plans to roll out large ice tables adorned with signage that plays up the nearby heritage. “We’ll make them kind of an event,” says company seafood manager Steve Philips. “They almost always sell out.”

The catch: All of these fish will be coming from 70 miles inland of the capital, from a company called Spring Hill. The fish will be harvested from a land-based “recirculating aquaculture system,” the industry term for a gigantic eco-friendly, land-based fish tank located at the Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

The Fish Farm Of The Future

The Institute is housed in a large warehouse surrounded by fields and pastures along an otherwise rural road. It holds a 40,000-gallon circular fish tank that resembles a large above-ground swimming pool with portholes. Beside it are several large water filtering towers, which are designed to strip out residual waste like leftover food and fish poop to be treated and broken down into nitrogen and phosphorous-rich fertilizer that settles in compost bins outside the building. Ninety-nine percent of

from the Society for Freshwater Science

Society for Freshwater Science

March 13 at 12:00pm ·

USGS releases an open-source digital reference collection for aquatic macroinvertebrate of North America
https://sciencebase.usgs.gov/naamdrc/