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Location: Burlington, Vermont
Source: ISCIENCES, L.L.C. conducts research to improve our customers' understanding of sustainable development, human security and the environment. We are also the creators of the TerraViva! family of data visualization software about Earth and its people.
Our projects include: assessing vulnerability to flooding; developing sub-national models of the onset of food crises; designing a strategic warning system for fragile nation states susceptible to conflict; identifying corporate indicators to promote socially responsible investment; assessing exposure to water shortages for multi-national corporations; developing models to predict basic optical parameters of materials; and, developing algorithms for understanding and using hyperspectral data.
ISciences provides critical analysis influencing major policy decisions at some of the world's largest companies and at the highest reaches of government.
Summary of Position:
This position is a temporary position to support an existing contract through March, 2010. The Research Analyst (temporary) will be a member of a team that performs quantitative sustainability and vulnerability assessments for a variety of U.S. government and commercial clients. These analyses tend to focus on freshwater shortages and surplus, cover large geographic areas (e.g., global or continental scale), and use data derived from satellite remote sensing, geospatial analysis, and quantitative environmental, social, political, economic indicators.
Duties:
1. Use industry standard geospatial analysis software such as ArcGIS, IMAGINE, ENVI, and/or IDRISI to run state of the art geospatial models and perform quality control/assurance on results.
2. Interpret results from statistical analyses.
3. Develop and run custom scripts and programs in programming environments such as Python, VBA, and/or Kepler. Familiarity with Java a plus.
4. Integrate data from a variety of sources, formats, and disciplines into coherent databases.
5. Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
1. Bachelor degree in environmental science, computer science, mathematics, political science, or related discipline. Post graduate education preferred.
2. Demonstrated interest and ability to understand and analyze sustainability and vulnerability, particularly assessments of freshwater issues.
3. Demonstrated interest and understanding of geospatial analysis using satellite remote sensing and geographic information systems.
URL: http://www.isciences.com/
Deadline: 06 November 2009: Email a letter of introduction stating qualifications and salary history, along with a resume, to jobs@isciences.com
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PROJECTS
University of Cincinnati Superfund Basic Research Program. University of Cincinnati, United StatesCentral Arizona - Phoenix Long-Term Ecological Research... Arizona State University Superfund Basic Research Program, Outreach Core. University of California, San Diego EVENTS
15th Annual International Sustainable Development Research.... July 5, 2009 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions.... October 6, 2001 2006 Gordon Research Conference on SCIENCE.... August 13, 2006 MEMBERS
Simon Mason, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, United States Ben Wisner, Oberlin College, United States; and London School of Economics, United Kingdom Peter Newton, CSIRO, Australia PUBLICATIONS
Qualitative Reasoning and Global Change Research: Experiences from Modeling Human-Environment.... Gerhard Petschel-Held
A New Agenda for UK Sustainable Development Research. Sustainable Development Research Network
GAIM in 2002 and Beyond: A Benchmark in the Continuing....
Sahagian, Dork, and
Schellnhuber, John.
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