Employment

The Conservation Aquaculture Research Team (CART), based at the NCEAS, in partnership with California Sea Grant and with support from the Ocean Protection Council, is seeking to fill a postdoctoral position as part of its effort to develop a strategic action plan for aquaculture in the State of California. The position will be based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California.

The State of California, through the Ocean Protection Council (OPC), has initiated a process to develop and eventually implement a strategic action plan for expanding aquaculture. CART will be working in close coordination with California Sea Grant to engage stakeholders, synthesize the state of knowledge around aquaculture planning, and develop a user-informed draft action plan. This draft plan will then be used to inform a second, extensive round of stakeholder engagement to refine and finalize the plan. The final action plan will be presented in 2023.

This postdoctoral researcher will be based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California and will support and lead components of the work plan to develop the user-informed strategic action plan. The position will be embedded within CART and the broader NCEAS community, as well as the Halpern and Froehlich research labs.

Apply at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01912

Are you passionate about designing and building web applications for open science?  Do you want to promote reproducible and synthetic research on the earth and the environment?  Do you love to collaborate at the intersection of science, engineering, and design?

We seek a talented web developer and designer to join our open science development team and contribute to web applications that advance ecological and environmental synthesis at global scales.  Projects focus on building web sites for sharing and managing scientific information and data, analysis code, and other science products to help promote open, reproducible science and facilitate synthetic research.   

Projects will include designing and building web sites and applications that present scientific results in ecology and environmental science and that enable scientists to describe, submit, and discover data, analysis results, and other project details important to researchers. Projects will initially build web applications for the Arctic Data Center, the Ocean Health Index, and the DataONE network of data repositories, among many others.  Upcoming projects include, for example, ones that focus on redesigning project web sites, publishing scientific findings, displaying metadata quality results on the web, and building web sites to support and promote preservation, discovery, reuse, and citation of open scientific data.

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The McClintock Lab, based at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, supports geospatial planning and research efforts in the marine sciences which have complex and challenging software needs. Lab development projects include web applications, mobile data collection tools, and computer vision software. The Lab’s longest running project, SeaSketch (www.seasketch.org), is a hosted software service which supports diverse and numerous government agencies and other institutions around the globe in engaging scientists, stakeholders and the general public in marine spatial planning. We are currently using SeaSketch for marine planning in the US, Canada, Portugal, Maldives, Micronesia, Bermuda with past experience in over two dozen countries. 

Under general direction, the Lead Geospatial Developer leads the development of reporting tools for SeaSketch. The Geospatial Developer will work with clients to gather requirements for SeaSketch reporting tools, gather and process data for projects, and implement geostatistical reporting analytics and data visualizations. Working with the Principal Developer, the Geospatial Developer will continue development of our open-source geospatial analysis infrastructure using Javascript and AWS Lambda. This will be an exciting opportunity to work on complex and interactive data visualizations, use open-source geospatial tools like Turf.js, and even develop novel spatial algorithms for use in Javascript. Under general supervision, the candidate will travel occasionally (5% time) to attend international meetings and implement SeaSketch.

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NCEAS and Microsoft AI for Earth are partnering to fill a postdoctoral position to inform the science of sustained, automated, and technology-driven ecosystem assessment, based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California. This initiative will support multidisciplinary synthesis working groups and research aimed at tackling key questions around how to operationalize and automate rapid ecosystem assessments.

This postdoctoral researcher will be based at NCEAS in Santa Barbara, California under the mentorship of Dr. Ben Halpern and will participate in the research of one or more funded working groups currently being solicited (to be awarded by Dec 2020), depending on experience and interest, as well as conduct independent research related to ecosystem assessment. This position will give the postdoc significant opportunities to maximize the impact of their research, and to work at the interface of cloud-based AI and ecological synthesis science.

Apply at https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01857