Individual Occupational Requirements for
GS-1315: Hydrology Series
The text below is extracted verbatim from
Section IV-B of the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards
for General Schedule Positions (p.IV-B-185), but contains minor edits
to conform to web-page requirements.
Use these individual occupational requirements in conjunction with
the "Group Coverage Qualification Standard for
Professional and Scientific Positions."
- Degree: physical or natural science, or engineering that included at least 30 semester
hours in any combination of courses in hydrology, the physical sciences, geophysics,
chemistry, engineering science, soils, mathematics, aquatic biology, atmospheric science,
meteorology, geology, oceanography, or the management or conservation of water resources.
The course work must have included at least 6 semester hours in calculus (including both
differential and integral calculus), and at least 6 semester hours in physics. Calculus and
physics, as described above, are requirements for all grade levels.
OR
- Combination of education and experience--course work as shown in A above, plus appropriate
experience or additional education.
Acceptable experience must have included performance of scientific functions
related to the study of water resources, based on and requiring a professional knowledge of related sciences
and the consistent application of basic scientific principles to the solution of theoretical and practical
hydrologic problems. The following is illustrative of acceptable experience: field or laboratory work that
would require application of hydrologic theory and related sciences such as geology, geo-chemistry,
geophysics, or civil engineering to making observations, taking samples, operating instruments, assembling
data from source materials, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings orally and in writing.
In some cases, professional scientific experience that is not clearly water resource experience may be
acceptable if such experience was preceded by appropriate education in hydrology or by professional
hydrology experience.
Applicants with related experience in hydrology gained through earlier Federal Government employment
might have gained that experience in one or more occupational series. Such series include Soil Conservation,
GS-457; Forestry, GS-460; Soil Science, GS-470; Civil Engineering, GS-810; Chemistry, GS-1320;
Meteorology, GS-1340; and Geology, GS-1350. Comparable non-Federal experience may be given similar
credit.
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