Geospatial Analyst

The Geospatial Analyst will help with development, analysis and reporting for Green Diamond's Habitat Conservation Plans, Safe Harbor Agreement, other landscape agreements and scientific monitoring and research resulting from those agency partnerships. This position is critical to the support of planning efforts used by these agreements which includes watershed studies on mass wasting, waste discharge requirements, Total Maximum Daily Loads, and wildlife and fisheries monitoring programs related to conservation planning and project evaluation. This position will help to develop, interpret, and present information supporting both Forestry and Operations as well as Conservation Planning goals at the Division level. This work is done under the direction of the Senior Geospatial Scientist.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage or assist in software development projects, which may use both external and internal resources.
• Involved in the development of habitat suitability models in support of Conservation Planning goals.
• Assists with the study design, data analysis, interpretation, and writing of scientific papers.
• Provide leadership in ensuring that data information systems continue to develop and can provide comprehensive and accurate management support data. This requires the incumbent to be aware of evolving management information needs within the Conservation Planning department, changing software technology, forest industry trends, and the needs of operations personnel.
• Develop, maintain, and report from existing and new databases serving Conservation Planning as well as other departments.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Natural Resources with strong emphasis in geospatial science, remote sensing, and statistics or a degree in Geospatial Science, statistics, with supporting coursework in natural resources.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL.
• Ability to process and analyze LIDA data.
• Hands on work with drone based data collection and imagery processing.