We are hiring eight technicians for a state-wide pollinator research effort by North Dakota State University. Technicians will measure bee and butterfly populations and vegetation parameters across North Dakota grassland ecosystems. This research is unique in its large geographic scope and it will produce the first state-wide baseline of pollinators for this region. Each of North Dakota’s 53 counties will have three assigned survey sites that technicians will visit two times throughout the field season (May 21st to mid- to late-August). Technicians will work in a team of two, each team assigned to one quadrant of North Dakota. Technicians will trained in the following survey techniques: - Visual encounter surveys and line-transect distance sampling of butterflies - Net collection