Department of Fish and Wildlife JC-515381 - Senior Environmental Scientist Specialist SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENTIST (SPECIALIST) $7,820.00 - $10,732.00 per Month New to State candidates will be hired into the minimum salary of the classification or minimum of alternate range when applicable. Final Filing Date: 5/5/2026

Permanent job in Sacramento!
Sr environmental scientist in a good unit.
Manage acoustic data, implement automated approaches for aggregating and summarizing wildlife data, carry out advanced quantitative analyses that integrate multiple data sources.
calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

This news feels like a punch in the gut. 💔
I don’t work with LTER sites, but I work with other long-term monitoring data. It’s hard to describe how incredibly valuable long-term datasets are. They help us understand 1) what’s changed and 2) if it’s something we broke, how we’re doing at fixing it.

Well said.

I’ve done several long CA road trips in an ioniq5. Public charging is a lot like a gas station. For commuting I have a 220-volt outlet in my garage. I charge about once a week for my commute. The car is scheduled to only charge during lower time of day rates so it’s so much cheaper than gas.

I mostly work with 🤏 fish.

April Fools Day is a good reminder to be skeptical of things you read on the internet. Be extra careful out there today.

This is why I constantly recommend people attend a No Kings protest. It will invigorate you immensely. The vibes are excellent.

A photo of a sign that says “impeach the phony king of America” and a cartoon of the phony king from Robin Hood sucking his thumb.

Sacramento was really mellow, but there were tons of people out at the Capitol today.
I reused my sign from last time and I added some glitter.

Why does sitting on the floor or on a couch make writing (code or English) easier?

An abstract line drawing that looks like a very spiky distortion of a gray and white checkerboard pattern.

I made some neat #accidentalaRt in #rstats today. Those are supposed to be convex hulls around some clusters of points, but this is cool too.

Probably dahlia tubers. Put them in a pot and see what grows! 🌸

I really enjoyed your talk! I work at the intersection of modeling and policy. Your talk gave me a lot of new ideas to look into.

I’m much grumpier about everything than I was yesterday. Does that count?

Home - Western Conservation Leadership Development Program THE WESTERN CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM builds leadership capacity for a diversity of partners to implement landscape conservation for the future.

I did WCLDP last year and I got so much more out of it than I expected. It literally changed the way I see leadership and how I interpret people’s actions. And I made a lot of strong people connections. It’s an intense time commitment and it’s expensive, though.
www.westernconservationldp.com

A photo of a multicolored tabby cat crouching on a notebook. The notebook is open to a page with a box and arrow diagram scribbled on it. The cat has one ear pulled slightly back, making her look annoyed.

Atcha is helping me turn the effects narratives from some water permitting documents into DAGs. I’m hoping this approach to reading will help me with paying close attention now and modeling in the future.

Tonight? Oh, sorry, I can’t. I have dance.

A photo of a small, tan dog with his face shoved in the middle of a seed catalog.

I’m getting closer to having the energy and enthusiasm back for posting about fish and stats models. In the meantime, here’s a picture of Penzey tasting a seed catalog. He’s the best little weirdo.

This is what I did with my holiday. I made a lot of salsa from tomatoes that I threw in the freezer back in August.

A photo of a multicolored tabby cat curled up into a sphere next to an orange throw pillow on a couch. In the background, rain falls into a swimming pool.

Atcha knows what to do on a rainy afternoon.

😱

Hi Sac Bee! You’re my local paper. I’m also a woman and a scientist. This headline makes you look sexist and I would really like to see you change it to center Dr. Bohon’s scientific credentials.

A photo of a small tan dog sitting in a big, round, green dog bed. He’s looking at the camera. There is a pile of office stuff in grocery bags and a tabby cat behind him.

This is a guy who is excited that we get to work from home again.

A photo of a sheet of paper that says “welcome to the Water Branch, Vanessa” with a photo of water with a dock.

First day at CDFW Water Branch!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“No, I’m not just going to run a regression for you. What question are you trying to answer?”

Thank you!

A map of the Great Lakes showing the number of federal employees lost by each state

Since January 20, 2025, the #GreatLakes region has lost 19,450 federal jobs including at NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (which lost 20% of its workforce) + US Fish & Wildlife Service, threatening scientific research and ecosystem protection www.nemw.org/trump-admini...

I kind of had fun at my interview so I figured that was a good sign.

Thanks! 😊 It’s the smelt supplementation EPM position at Water Branch.

Water Branch- smelt supplementation program

A photo of a Fish and Wildlife Service badge holder with the Service patch embroidered on it.

Today is my last day working at the Fish and Wildlife Service. I’m taking leave next week, then I start a new job at the CA Department of Fish and Wildlife. I’ll continue to do science to support delta & longfin smelt recovery in the San Francisco Estuary, but I’ll be focusing on supplementation.