The Utah Forest Institute at Utah State University is seeking applications for a full-time technical analyst to start July 1, 2018. Applications will be reviewed starting May 18, 2018, with applications being considered until the position is filled. The person hired for this position will serve as the principal fire analyst for the Utah Forest Institute reporting to the Director, Utah Forest Institute. Responsibilities will include:
* Generating Landsat-derived fire severity maps for fires in the state of Utah. * Hiring, training and managing part-time technicians to assist with this work. * Managing ancillary data in MySQL databases running on the Amazon.com commercial cloud. * Preparing summary statistics and analyses from remote sensing and numeric data. * Updating and maintaining the project website. * Communicating with forest and fire managers from the Utah Department of Natural Resources, the US Forest Service, the BLM, and other land managers, as well as technical staff from the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program. * Designing and implementing field sampling (first field season 2019) to calibrate satellite-derived metrics with actual on-the-ground conditions in all Utah forest types. Some travel will be required to train field crews (camping required) and coordinate with other Institutes and agencies. The Utah Forest Institute is housed in the S.J. & Jessie E. Quinney College of Natural Resources at Utah State University. Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in natural sciences, physical sciences, math, or engineering. * Experience with R and ESRI software. * Two full summers of field work in vegetation research or management. Preferred Qualifications: * MS in natural sciences, physical sciences, math, or engineering. * Employment experience with R, ESRI, MySQL, Dreamweaver, and Amazon.com cloud services. * Experience with pre-fire and post-fire vegetation and fuels sampling. * Experience managing field crews. * Knowledge of spectral remote sensing. This is a full-time position with benefits. Apply through the USU Human Resources portal at: http://usu.hiretouch.com/job-details?jobid=3389
