Ocean Job Board

California Marine Sanctuary Foundation
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About the Offshore Wind Environmental Monitoring Project
In California offshore waters, sustained northwesterly winds have been identified as a key energy resource which could contribute substantially to California’s renewable energy mandate. The state’s ambitious goals for floating offshore wind (OSW) will consider impacts to ecosystems and species in a myriad of new ways, since our wind energy projects will be in deeper waters, further from shore than ever before. Also, predicting, understanding, and mitigating specific risks and impacts will require new methods and data streams, given the diverse and unique marine taxa on the West Coast.
CMSF is leading a large multi-institutional effort to create a systematic, strategic, and multi-disciplinary guidance for the environmental monitoring of OSW construction, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning in California. This guidance will address 1) sources of potential impact, 2) current monitoring capacities, 3) information required for permitting and adaptive management, 4) priority questions and protocols for data sharing, integration, and analysis, and will create a clear 5) monitoring guidance that can be applied immediately.
About the Role
Reporting to California Marine Sanctuary Foundations (CMSF) Executive Director in coordination with CMSF’s Marine Spatial Ecologist, the Project Associate will:
About You
CMSF is looking for candidates who have:
Salary and Location
About the Organization
The California Marine Sanctuary Foundation (CMSF) has worked to protect the state's coastal ecosystems while strengthening coastal resilience since 1995. In collaboration with a variety of local communities, including government agencies, tribal communities, harbors and marinas, and NGOs, we focus on five thematic areas: water quality protection, marine resource protection, coastal restoration, climate change mitigation, and community engagement. We strive to engage stakeholders, members of the public, and experts in these areas to identify and implement practical and effective solutions to reduce human impacts on and increase the resiliency of, California’s coastal resources.
For more information about our collective work please visit: https://www.californiamsf.org/
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