The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and Stanford University together seek to fill the position of GIS Analyst (Marine) for the Natural Capital Project. We are developing tools to model and map the distribution of biodiversity and the flow of multiple ecosystem services across land- and seascapes.
We seek a creative individual for a 2 year position to support development, documentation and maintenance of the Marine InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs) models.
Principal Responsibilities:
– Guided closely by the Lead Scientist, develop, maintain, and improve Arc toolbox elements to run biophysical and economic models created by postdoctoral researchers and other project collaborators.
– In collaboration with core staff, collect and format data from global datasets, satellite sources, and Natural Capital Project field sites and run the models in ArcGIS.
– Help create user-friendly manuals for Arc tools and occasionally provide technical assistance to InVEST users on invest.ecoinformatics.org.
Qualifications:
– B.S. or B.A. in geography, natural resources, earth sciences, environmental / landscape planning, oceanography, GIS certificate program, ecology or a similar field required, graduate degree or certificate desired.
– Adept skill with all major functions in Arc software, especially model builder and Python scripting (ArcGIS 9.2) as well as with open source GIS packages (GRASS).
– Experience acquiring (via code), analyzing and using remotely sensed data in combination with other data sources.
– Experience executing grid and vector analysis, and automate spatial and tabular algorithms.
More information on the project, a partnership among the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford, WWF, and TNC can be found at www.naturalcapitalproject.org.
Stanford University is committed to equal opportunity through affirmative action in employment and we are especially eager to identify minority persons and women with appropriate qualifications.
Application
To assure your application information is captured in our official files and that the hiring department also has immediate access to your resume, you must apply to jobs.stanford.edu, Job #47541, by Dec. 1, 2008.