Freshwater Ecologist

One of the world’s leading providers of environmental professional consulting and support services with offices across Ireland are seeking a Senior/Principal Freshwater Ecologist for water projects, schemes and to address general water use and management issues throughout Ireland. You will be a Freshwater Ecologist with a good understanding of hydrology and water quality, and the relationships between these things. You may also be a statistician and/or modeller and used  to  manipulating  ecological  data. You  will  know  about  and  understand  the  freshwater ecological aspects of ecological status as defined by the Water Framework Directive and will have a good understanding of the kind of measures that need to be implemented to improve aquatic  ecology  in  line  with  WFD  objectives  for ‘good  status  by  2027’. You  will  need  good experience and understanding of the main issues impacting Ireland’s freshwater ecology, such as the impacts from agriculture (nutrients, pesticides) but also from wastewater treatment in urban  centres,  as  well  as  the  impacts  of  abstractions,  discharges  and  impoundments,  and their removal, on freshwater ecology. You will need a good knowledge of the routine metrics and methods used to assess and determine the status of freshwater ecology in Ireland, such as the Q and SSRS scoring systems, or similar. A knowledge of riverine diatoms and other macro and micro- algae, macrophytes and fisheries, especially salmonid, would be an added advantage.