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GIS Analyst (Posted 13 November 2007)
Description: The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, and The Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University together seek to fill the position of GIS Analyst for the Natural Capital Project.
Our mission is to align economic forces with conservation by developing tools that make incorporating natural capital into decisions easy; by demonstrating the power of these tools in important, contrasting places; and by engaging leaders globally.
The first tool we are developing models and maps the distribution of biodiversity and flow of ecosystem services across a landscape.
We seek a creative individual for a 1-year position to support application of our models with stakeholders in our demonstration sites, including watersheds in the Sierra Nevada region of California, the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania, North Shore of O’ahu, Hawai’i, and the Upper Yangtze River basin in China.
Principal Responsibilities:
- The successful applicant will design and implement Arc toolbox elements to run our models and collect and format data from diverse sources.
- The position will require extensive interaction with interdisciplinary teams and substantial travel.
- The position is based at Stanford University with Gretchen Daily, and will involve collaborating widely with faculty and practitioners at TNC and WWF.
- The position will also involve occasional support of research projects in the Center for Conservation Biology on the future of biodiversity and ecosystem service provision.
Required Qualifications:
- M.S. or M.A. in geography, natural resources, earth sciences, environmental / landscape planning, GIS certificate program, ecology or a similar field.
- 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 developing Python scripts, conducting advanced spatial analyses and formatting data from diverse sources including remote sensing instruments.
- Experience executing grid and vector analysis, and automate spatial and tabular algorithms.
Submit Applications to:
Heather Tallis
Natural Capital Project
371 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5020
Applications should include a cover letter describing the reason for interest in and suitability for this position, full curriculum vitae, and the names of three references.
If applying by email, please put “GIS Analyst” in the subject field.
Applications review will begin November 23, 2007, but position will remain open until filled.