CSS, Inc. is seeking Spatial Ecologist(s) with data analysis experience to join NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), Marine Spatial Ecology Division, which is a nationally recognized scientific research program that conducts spatial ecological analysis, statistical modeling, ecological forecasting, and predictive mapping to support marine ecosystem management, conservation, restoration and spatial planning. The candidate(s) will be employed by CSS to work on site at the NOAA National Ocean Service in Silver Spring, MD.
We seek candidate(s) with experience using scientific programming languages (e.g., R, Python) to fit a variety of advanced spatial/spatiotemporal statistical models to ecological data - including both physical and biological aspects of marine and coastal ecosystems. The successful candidate(s) will help support solutions to large, complex spatial and spatiotemporal ecological modeling challenges in the context of a changing climate, such as modeling of species' distributions, marine wildlife survey data, and/or physical, oceanographic, and geological aspects of marine habitat. Examples of potential projects include spatial and spatiotemporal modeling of marine species; benthic, estuarine and coastal habitats; and marine ecosystem structure (e.g., connectivity, biodiversity) in a variety of US jurisdictions.
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