The National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center in Honolulu, HI is advertising for a Statistician. The incumbent will be the main point of contact and will coordinate projects to monitor and execute the Hawaii Marine Recreational (non-commercial) Fisheries Survey (HMRFS) in conjunction with other Pacific Islands Region NMFS staff and staffs from NMFS Headquarters Office of Science and Technology (Marine Recreational Fisheries Statistical Survey (MRFSS) and the Hawaii Division of Aquatic Resources. They will serve as a sticistical analyst expert on regional and national teams. They will learn the existing SAS-based MRFSS and HMRFS survey designs and analyze existing survey methods for bias and wasy to improve all phases of the survey from sample selection through data expansion. They will assist in developing, implementing and overseeing new methods for estimating non-commercial (e.g. recreational and subsistence) fisheries catch and effort and will produce quality controlled databases and summary reports of results for regional and national use. They will research, develop, and provide advice on new and innovative reality-based methods to estimate confidence intervals for all expanded survey parameters, paying particular attention to strata for which imputations have been made.
For more information see: http://www.usajobs.gov/ Statistician – DEU Vacancy Ann # NMF-PIC-2008-0051 ZP-1530-3/4 Closes: 10/17/08 Statistician – MAP Vacancy Ann. # NMF-PIC-2008-0052 ZP-1530-3/4 Closes: 10/17/08
