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Postdoctoral Research Associate in soil and water conservation structures
University of Arizona, Arizona, United States
Start reviewing process: 12 November 2021
Start reviewing process: 12 November 2021
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Position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Start reviewing process: 12 November 2021
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The School of Natural Resources and the Environment at The University of Arizona is seeking a qualified and highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate I for a full-time, year-to-year appointment, contingent upon funding and performance, under the direct supervision of Dr. Mary Nichols (USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center), the selected candidate will contribute to a new project to identify and assess the impacts of legacy (> 50 years old) soil and water conservation structures in western US rangelands funded by the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service. The successful candidate will develop and implement automated detection and mapping of soil and water conservation structures such as earthen berms and stock tanks, work with a team of collaborators to discover and analyze hydrologic, geomorphic, and vegetation patterns affected by such human alterations, and support parallel processing of lidar data.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Develop and implement algorithms to identify and map legacy soil and water conservation structures such as earthen berms and stock tanks in aerial lidar data and analyze and interpret resultant data.
- Produce multiple peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts, and research proposals as well as present at scientific conferences related to current research.
- Conduct literature reviews and comparisons.
- Contribute to a team effort to understand the landscape scale impacts of human altered rangelands.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Quantitative understanding and knowledge of semiarid hydrology and watershed processes.
- Strong computational and quantitative skills, including the ability to program in R, Python.
- Ability to design and execute analyses of lidar data to quantify topography and drainage networks.
- Skill in working with large lidar datasets.
- Skill in working with geospatial databases.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work with project team.
- Ability to work in a collaborative environment.
Of interest for: Terrestrial Working Group Hydrology Focus Research Group
