Forest Landscape Ecology Lab
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Job Summary:
These positions will digitize historical landcover maps of Wisconsin counties using GIS and other tools. This will involve digitizing polygons and adding attributes. The work will contribute to an ecological study of past forest change and fire occurrence in Wisconsin in the early 1900s and will be supervised by a GIS Specialist.
Knowledge/Experience Required:
Coursework in GIS and experience with ESRI ArcGIS. Must also be familiar with both raster and vector data manipulation in addition to creating and editing shapefiles. Must also have an understanding in GIS topology.
Additional Knowledge/Experience Desired:
Georeferencing experience in addition to programming/scripting skills are highly desired. Additional experience with Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft Access is also beneficial. Positions are part time/full-time for the fall/winter 2014. There is potential to continue some positions into 2015.
Apply by submitting a single document containing: cover letter, resume and contact information for three references to mnoone@wisc.edu.
Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.