EMPLOYMENT LINKS

Academic | Environmental & Activist | Computing | Fisheries | Government | Wide-Ranging | Links to Links

 

Academic

American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
A variety of marine and freshwater positions, primarily in academia.

Texas A&M University
A variety of positions within and associated with Texas A&M University.

Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Jobs associated with the College of Agriculture and Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.

Cesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute
Graduate and research positions in wildlife at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Ecological Society of America
A modest selection of professional positions, mainly faculty but a few in other categories.

Ecological Society of America: Physiological Ecology Section
A whole stack of university-oriented openings, mainly faculty and postdocs, with a strong lean towards plant ecology.

HigherEdJobs Online
Devoted to job listings across the university spectrum, this site includes a faculty section with hundreds of available positions — all across academia, not just the life sciences, so it takes some browsing; but worth it.

naturejobs
The new job-searching service from the website of the journal Nature.

North American Benthological Society
An excellent selection of positions relating to limnology, hydrology and general aquatic science.

Science
The online professional network of one of the premier scientific journals.

Society for Conservation Biology
Job announcements, links, and a small stack of listservs.

 

Environmental & Activist

Defenders of Wildlife
A small assortment of career-track and intern positions.

EE-Link
A towering stack of all manner of positions related to environmental education—a prime clearinghouse for all things EE.

Marine Turtle Network Job & Volunteer Board
Small and possessing a certain chelonian slant, the site nonetheless has some interesting and often international positions.

Massachusetts Audubon Society
Quality internships, volunteer positions, and full- and part-time employment in the Northeast.

MCBI Jobs and Internships
Aquatic and oceanic positions from the Marine Conservation Biology Institute.

National Wildlife Federation
A significant number of jobs and internships, generally indoors positions.

PIRG/Jobs
If your conscience and ideals won't go away, this is the place to look: the Public Interest Research Groups.

Sierra Club
Plenty of positions around the country with John Muir's old gang.

The Nature Conservancy
Nationwide positions in one of the quietest and most effective conservation groups.

Wildlife Conservation Society
A dozen or so positions at the New York headquarters of this venerable conservation group.

World Wildlife Fund
Two or three dozen positions, mainly desk jobs, plus application information. Beautiful site design.

 

Computing

GeoSearch, Inc.
A site with all manner of GIS positions, plus a résumé-posting service and other extras. Free!

GIS Jobs Clearinghouse
A superb resource with almost two hundred GIS positions advertised.

GISJobs.com
Not primarily an environmental site, but interesting positions are sprinkled throughout.

 

Fisheries

American Fisheries Society Jobs Bulletin
Dozens of listings from around the country and beyond—a superb resource and a must-see for aquatic professionals.

EdOp Net
An excellent source for job openings in aquaculture, as well as internships, graduate opportunities and more.

Malaspina University-College Fisheries and Aquaculture Job Page
This site has been developed for the Fisheries and Aquaculture Industry to reach experienced employees as well as students and graduates for employment.

 

Government

State

(Most of these sites only have a handful of jobs at any one time, but many also have links, applications and career information.)

Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Game & Fish Division
Law enforcement, wildlife and fisheries; still in development.

Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Background information and links to state employment sites.

California Department of Fish and Game
Position openings in the context of a wildlife career.

Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection
No job listings, but links to other leads.

Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
A few good listings.

Georgia Department of Natural Resources
Very few listings (but a stylish website).

Idaho Department of Fish and Game
A goodly number of seasonal positions as well as a link to the Idaho state employment site.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Division of Fish & Wildlife
Contact information and a link to the Indiana state employment site.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Minimal postings and links.

Maryland Department of Natural Resources
The Human Resources page for MD-DNR.

Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Links to jobs, career information, the Minnesota Conservation Corps and more.

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
Information on careers in wildlife and a link to the Mississippi State Personnel Board.

New Hampshire Fish and Game Department
Minimal information and a link to the New Hampshire Division of Personnel.

New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
Little more than a link to the New Mexico State Personnel Office.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
General position descriptions, with contact information for specific openings

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
No positions as such, but information on background requirements and Human Resources contacts.

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife
A handful of positions and a link to the State of Oregon's job site.

Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Salaried and seasonal positions, internships, volunteer openings and more.

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
A few openings, mainly office-based, and a link to the South Carolina jobs page.

South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and Parks
Information on background and links to jobs, internships et al. through the South Dakota Bureau of Personnel.

Texas Parks & Wildlife Department
Employment opportunities with the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department.

Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries
Several current openings, plus links to career information and applications.

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
One of the best employment sites of any state wildlife agency.

 

Federal:

FedWorld: Federal Jobs
A huge government website with a searchable database, links galore, and an actual sense of humor.

National Park Service
The official online resource for NPS employment and careers.

NOAA
A variety of opportunities within the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration; now a subset of the USA Jobs site.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The EPA's gateway to jobs, internships, fellowships and temporary employment for students.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Employment opportunities with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other Department of Interior Agencies.

U.S. Office of Personnel Management
One-stop job listings for federal employment nationwide.

 

Wide-Ranging

American University's Biology and Environment Listings
For its sheer volume of links and listings, this is worth a look.

American Zoo and Aquarium Association
Many research tech, education, and managment positions.

Aquatic Network
An excellent jobs site.

CGIAR Employment Opportunities
Staff openings in agricultural research based all around the world, from Italy to Indonesia, the Philippines to Peru.

Earthworks
A vast, kaleidoscopic site, with category pages in ecology, forestry, oceanography and more — as well as crossover positions in mineral engineering and petroleum exploration, among many others.

EnvironmentalCareers.com
A stylish, streamlined site listing dozens of positions across a remarkable breadth of subjects and fields.

Environmental Careers World
A superb site with abundant listings across the spectrum.

Eastern Research Group
A small consulting group with a diversity of positions.

Green Engineering Jobs.com
They are a new Careers and information centre focusing on the renewable energy and environmental industies.

JobBank USA
A one-stop job shop with search engines, résumé services, links and newsgroups and much more. Don't get lost.

Monster Board
One of the major job-hunting websites has now been redesigned, monster-style.

Society of Wetland Scientists
Specializing in positions with wetlands research, delineation and protection.

Student Conservation Organization
A quality site focused on students beginning a career in conservation.

UMass Dept. Forestry & Wildlife Management
Entropy rules this wild card: the most disorganized pile of announcements I've ever seen, but also one of the largest and widest-ranging. If you're unemployed and it's raining outside, poke through this one.

 

Links to Links: other online resource compilations

American Fisheries Society
An outstanding online resource with over thirty links to well-stocked job boards.

Cyber-Sierra Natural Resources Job Search
A tremendous set of links for Natural Resources jobs and beyond, recently expanded.

Environmental Jobs and Careers
A noteworthy assembage of links, panoramic and carefully tended.

Great GIS Netsites
Something of an ultimate GIS resource page, with links to employment listings.

ProType Jobs By Industry
This colossal stack of links covers virtually every field imaginable, but has specific sections for (among other things) Agriculture, Biological Sciences, and the Environment.

Ranger 146
A good set of links for jobs in natural resources (and birds on the side), assembled from the perspective of a field biologist.