Research Assistant
About The Position
New HampshireView, an AmericaView member state (https://americaview.org/), is looking to host a research technician within the Basic and Applied Spatial Analysis Lab (BASAL). The BASAL is located within the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment at the University of New Hampshire. This researcher will work directly with the State Director (Dr. Benjamin T. Fraser) and Principal Investigator (PI) (Dr. Mark Ducey) to carry out the current ‘High Impact Activity’. The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry. The University System of New Hampshire is the largest provider of postsecondary education in the Granite State. With approximately 30,000 enrolled students annually and more than 90,000 alumni living in state, the institutions of the University System - the University of New Hampshire - Durham, the University of New Hampshire School of Law, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester, Plymouth State University, and Keene State College - have a direct impact on hundreds of thousands of New Hampshire citizens every year.
Requirements
- Basic knowledge of Remote Sensing and GIS
- Experience using ArcGIS Pro
- Knowledge of Forest Health and Forest Ecology
- Technical Writing
- Science Communication
Responsibilities
- Compiling literature and methods related to forest health monitoring using remote sensing and GIS (20%)
- Conducting novel geospatial analyses (50%)
- Documenting methods and results (20%)
- Working with collaborators and stakeholders to define realistic project goals (10%)
Benefits
- More information on benefits can be found here: USNH Employee Benefits | Human Resources
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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