Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Field biologists monitor nesting populations of loons and collect data on demographic and behavioral aspects of those populations including: Participation in the collection, recording, and reporting of demographic, behavioral, and nesting data Resighting color banded individuals as part of a long term loon population demographic study Deployment and maintenance of floating nesting platforms Participation in diurnal and nocturnal capture of live loons for the purpose of banding as well as sample collection as part of a long term contaminants study Collect abandoned eggs, eggshells, and loon carcasses and help organize field samples for eventual analysis Collection of fish samples as part of a contaminants monitoring study Participate in or lea