Research Specialist

Official title:
RESEARCH SPECIALIST (T16DN)

Anticipated begin date:
June 1st, 2011

Degree and area of specialization:
B.S. with GIS emphasis in forestry, ecology, geography, environmental studies, or related field. M.S. preferred.

Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:
Three years of broad experience with geographic information systems (GIS) and strong knowledge of ArcGIS software required. Strong organizational and administrative skills required. Experience with other analytical software (MS Access, statistics packages) highly desirable. Experience with GIS programming (Visual basic, Python), traditional and spatial statistics (R,SAS), and remote sensing software (ERDAS Imagine, ENVI) highly desirable.

Principal duties:
GIS-focused research and research support:

• Serve as lead technical person on ecological research projects using spatial data and GIS software; providing technical support to graduate students and scientists in the lab as needed; acquiring spatial data; 50%
• Assisting with manuscripts, figures, proposal writing, and presentation preparation; 20%
• Performing outreach services to collaborators, agencies and organizations interested in our work. 5%

Research lab management:

• Administrative duties include budgeting, reporting, proposal preparation, purchasing, software and hardware maintenance (with departmental system administrator), web page maintenance, and some employee supervision. 25%

Please send resume & cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #66932 to:
David Mladenoff
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
1630 Linden Dr
Madison WI 53706-1598

Phone: 608-262-1992
Email: djmladen@wisc.edu