Ocean Associates, Inc. (OAI) is seeking an individual to provide support to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Marine Mammal and Turtle Division’s (MMTD), California Current Marine Assessment Program (CMAP). OAI supplies personnel support services on contract to government and industry clients for marine fisheries and protected species. Background MMTD’s CMAP conducts marine mammal population assessments and uses a variety of survey and analytical approaches to estimate stock assessment parameters (such a estimates of population size, trends, survival rates, etc.), describe population dynamics and oceanographic drivers of animal distributions and density, quantify