The employee needs to supply a sleeping bag, rain gear, and outdoor clothing. Pets are not allowed at the field camp. This position will begin on March 15th and terminate about the 10th of November. Field duties include collection of fish and limnology samples, data recording, application of liquid fertilizer, and a variety of tasks involved with project support. The project site is located at Deer Lake in mountainous, coastal rain forest on the eastern shore of Baranof Island, some 50 miles south of Sitka.
Access is by float plane.
The project seeks to maximize smolt yield from plants of coho fry into this barriered lake. Fry are stocked in late June of each year and rear to smolts by foraging on invertebrates they find in the lake. Nutrients are added to Deer Lake to increase the quantity of zooplankton and other invertebrates living there. Fish and limnology sampling are conducted to track the performance of the juvenile coho and to monitor the effects of lake fertilization. A trap and falls bypass equipment are installed each spring to collect smolts as they volitionally exit Deer Lake, and to move them safely around a 230'-high waterfall and into a net pen complex at salt water.