Senior Laboratory Assistant

Come join our team at the Central Valley Coded-Wire Tag (CWT) Laboratory and Central Valley Tissue Archive! If you’re driven by science, conservation, and the chance to make a real impact on California’s iconic salmon populations, this job puts you at the heart of it. In this role, you’ll lead hands-on biological sampling at Central Valley hatcheries, guiding Scientific Aids as you collect tissue, scale, otoliths, and coded-wire-tag data essential to understanding, conserving and managing Chinook Salmon fisheries. Your days will take you from hatchery decks to the lab bench, ensuring samples are collected with precision, processed for long-term research value, and shared with genetic and life-history studies across the state. You’ll maintain chain-of-custody documentation, perform detailed scale analyses, and serve as a technical mentor in coded-wire tag extraction and reading—helping en