The Jornada Experimental Range (http://usda-ars.nmsu.edu) is looking for a creative, ambitious rangeland ecologist to assist in development and implementation of rangeland monitoring and assessment projects/tools and outreach to public and private partners. This is full-time position located in Las Cruces, NM. Duties of the position include: - Develop training materials (manual, videos, instructor-led and online courses, wiki pages) and programs for rangeland monitoring and assessment and lead training workshops and seminars for public and private audiences. - Work with Jornada staff and external cooperators to create and update information sources for ecosystem monitoring and assessment and web-based tools for data synthesis, analysis, and visualization. - Work with an interdisciplinary team of managers, researchers, and programmers to integrate existing tools and develop new tools for collection, storage, analysis, and visualization of ecosystem monitoring and assessment data. - Assist Jornada staff in designing monitoring and assessment programs, work with federal land management agencies to implement these programs, and help in the analysis and reporting of results. - Use GIS, statistical, and visualization software packages to analyze and present results from monitoring and assessment data.
Full position description and application instructions are available at: http://www.nmsu.edu/~personel/postings/faculty/15181019.html. Contact Jason Karl ([email protected], 575-646-7015) with questions.
