FACULTY RESEARCH ASSISTANT DEPARTMENT OF FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND SOCIETY OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, CORVALLIS Posting #: 0007220
This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, fixed-term position. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. This research position is with the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology (LARSE, http://www.fsl.orst.edu/larse) and the Landscape Ecology, Modeling, Mapping, and Analysis (LEMMA, http://www.fsl.orst.edu/lemma/) team, in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, at Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA. The position provides support for three related projects, including one developing and validating maps of forest change for the conterminous US (the North American Forest Dynamics Project, http://www.geog.umd.edu/nacp.goward/), and two linking forest change mapping with Gradient Nearest Neighbor (GNN) modeling to map vegetation conditions through time across Washington, Oregon, and California. The research is multifaceted, and involves determination of forest and other land cover conditions photo-interpreted from dense Landsat time series and historic airphotos for the purpose of informing and validating forest change maps and conducting outlier analysis of forest inventory plots for use in gradient modeling. Gathering and interpreting of additional ancillary change data will support image interpretations and review of field measured vegetation attributes. Analyses will require multivariate statistics, computer script writing, data management and documentation, and presentation of results. The employee will also provide support for LARSE management. For review of the full position announcement, or to apply: http://oregonstate.edu/jobs, Posting #0007220. For additional information on the position, contact Maureen Duane (541-758-8754 or [email protected]). Applicants will be required to upload the following documents when applying: 1) letter of application with statement of interest, addressing how the applicant's experience and skills specifically match the required and preferred qualifications 2) vita (resume) 3) unofficial copies of transcripts, and 4) names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of three references (if not addressed in the Resume/Vita, upload to Other Document) by May 13, 2011. For questions regarding the application process, contact Jeannette Harper at [email protected] or 541-737-6554. OSU is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer
