Summer River Surveying Job Description
About RRC
RRC Associates is a social science and market research consulting firm specializing in the recreation, travel/tourism, and community planning industries based in Boulder, Colorado. Our focus is on providing high-quality, customized market research, planning, and analysis services to our clients. RRC specializes in a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies with many projects focused on survey research, secondary analyses, and select qualitative studies.
In-field Research
Hourly wage $22 to $25 an hour
Flexible schedule
Covered mileage
Upper Colorado Wild and Scenic Stakeholder Research:
Upper Colorado River Wild and Scenic Stakeholders Comprehensive Research Program: For the past 10 years, RRC has assisted a broad-based coalition of agencies with understanding the recreation users of public lands (anglers and floatboaters) through survey-based data collection and analysis. Stakeholders include the BLM, USFS, water agencies, environmental groups, and a wide variety of non-profits. A high-profile project, RRC has continually monitored angler and floatboater experiences, trip characteristics, and demographics across multiple segments of the river. Included are traffic counts of entry/exit points of the river at boat ramps and a collection of other relevant data including highway traffic counts, fee envelope data and commercial use data, all reported to inform the creation of standards for visitation and visitor use.
Date/Tasks
The interviews will occur at various boat pullouts along the Upper Colorado River. Past years’ interviewing locations have included: Radium, State Bridge, Two Bridges, Catamount, Pinball, Lyon’s Gulch, Dotsero, Grizzly, Two Rivers, etc. The interviews will be done during the day on a mix of weekday and weekend days. You will be working on the land (not on the river). The river interviewer shifts are typically 8-9 hours. There will be several river interviewing days per month and the number of days you cover would vary depending on your availability.