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GEOSPATIAL DATA ANALYST FOR WILDFIRE-FUEL TREATMENT OUTCOMES
  • University of Washington (UW) Medicine
  • Seattle, WA FULL_TIME
  • Req #: 222397 Department: SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND FOREST SCIENCES Job Location: Seattle Campus Posting Date: 05/19/2023 Closing Info: Closes On 05/26/2023 Salary: $5,900-$6,250 per month Other Compensation: Shift: First Shift Benefits: As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs. For a complete description of our benefits for this position, please visit our website, click here.

    As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.

    UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty.

    The School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is looking for a Research Scientist/Engineer 3 to serve as Geospatial Data Analyst for Wildfire-Fuel Treatment Outcomes.

    Large-scale severe wildfires are expected to become increasingly common throughout much of North America, necessitating scientific data to inform postfire management treatment options and outcomes. Forest managers need site-specific quantitative monitoring data to develop long-term adaptative restoration plans based on science.

    We are seeking a Geospatial Data Analyst with expertise in fire modeling and remotely sensed data to support innovative wildfire research. The incumbent will work on a project to improve our understanding of the conditions under which fuel treatments produce desired socioecological outcomes when encountered by wildfire. The incumbent will join a team of postdoctoral scholars, federal scientists, and university faculty who will develop and refine a core, scalable methodology that leverages existing spatial datasets on landscape, fire, and fuel treatment characteristics. The research team will apply this methodology to observed wildfire-treatment encounters in different landscapes across the United States to produce empirical case studies of wildfire-treatment outcomes (WTO’s). Fuel treatments are intended to change fire behavior (e.g., reduced intensity, spread rate, or spotting potential) in the event of a wildfire.

    The selected candidate will collaborate on research to evaluate in the Pacific Northwest the reduction of fire severity, successful containment of fire spread, reduction of impacts to homes and critical infrastructure. These three outcomes are connected to the three pillars of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (“Cohesive Strategy”) of fire resilient landscapes, safe and effective wildfire response, and fire-adapted communities, respectively. The research takes advantage of the tremendous variation in landscape, fire, and treatment characteristics to conduct a set of natural experiments, taking a “big data” and remote sensing approach to learning from past fuel treatment activities. Such empirical, data-driven assessments of WTO’s are critical to inform process-based models of future treatment outcomes under a changing climate, to improve future treatment layout and design, to guide decision-making on incidents, and to improve adaptive management and monitoring of fuel treatment investments. The proposed research involves both place-based empirical case studies and methodological development; therefore, the incumbent will work with a postdoctoral scholar and collaborators to build a foundation for improving monitoring systems, rapidly assessing drivers of treatment effectiveness on landscapes of interest, and fostering collaborative learning with agency partners.

    RESPONSIBILITIES:

    Research

    • Incumbent will assemble, process, and analyze large remote sensing datasets (e.g., Landsat, Sentinel-2, MODIS) and spatial datasets (e.g., FACTs, FTEM, field data) of wildfires and operational fuel treatments using R/Python and Google Earth Engine. Selected candidate will use cartographic principles and conventions sufficient to create maps for external and internal use that display natural resource and socio-economic information and highlight particular analysis results.
    • The incumbent will use multi-analysis and machine-learning based integration of high-resolution satellite imagery, model generated data, and field data of wildfire-treatment outcomes.
    • Selected candidate will collaborate with the larger national research teams to develop and refine a core, scalable methodology that leverages existing spatial datasets on landscape, fire, and fuel treatment characteristics for large wildfires. The team will develop a process to apply methodologies to observed wildfire-treatment encounters in different landscapes across the United States to produce empirical case studies of wildfire-treatment outcomes.
    • To provide research support with statistical and geospatial analysis, wildland fire modeling, fuel and vegetation modeling, risk analysis, R or Python programming to research team.
    • To co-lead a field crew on establishment plots and collection of forest biometric data related to postfire stand conditions on selected recent wildfires where fuels have been treated in the Pacific Northwest in collaboration with a wide variety of federal, tribal, and state partners.
    • To collaborate closely with other team members located in other USFS Research Stations in the country. The research will be conducted in the laboratory and will require field visits to wildfire sites.

    Project Management

    • To support principal investigators on project management and interface with a group of research scientists, federal cooperators, and contractors.
    • To maintain and document projects as necessary.
    • To prepare and manage data, including collecting, cleaning, organizing, and maintaining datasets.

    Outreach

    • To write internal/technical documentation as well as to contribute to external scientific documentation, including peer-reviewed research papers.
    • To provide technical assistance and support to other projects underway within the group.
    • To perform related duties as required.

    Lead responsibilities:

    Incumbent will be responsible of gathering data, processing, and analyzing large remote sensing datasets and spatial datasets for wild-treatment outcome research. It includes analysis of spatial and related data (vector, raster, imagery) sufficient to support multi-scale and/or multi-resource planning, assessments, and monitoring.

    Incumbent will lead a field crew on the second year on establishment and collection of wildfire-fuel treatment outcomes on large wildfires in the Pacific Northwest. Selected candidate will be responsible of ensuring that research protocols are followed during the execution, data entry and analysis of studies on fire and smoke hazards for federal, state, and tribal lands.

    Supervisory responsibilities:

    Works effectively as a member of a team under technical guidance of seasoned staff and collaborators; Incumbent will lead a seasonal field crew during the summer of the second year composed of students and technicians as necessary to achieve specific assignments.

    MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

    • A master’s degree in a science-related field in forestry, fire ecology, forestry, forest ecology, botany, natural resources, or geospatial science
    • 2 years of experience or equivalent combination of education and experience processing and analyzing large datasets and geospatial datasets with R/Python and via Google Earth Engine for wildfire and fuel treatment outcome research.

    Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.

    ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:

    • Experience integrating, processing, and analyzing large remote sensing datasets (e.g., Landsat, Sentinel-2, MODIS) and spatial datasets (e.g., FACTs, FTEM, field data) of wildfires and operational fuel treatments using R/Python and Google Earth Engine
    • 2 years of experience using use multi-analysis and machine-learning based integration of high-resolution satellite imagery, model generated data, and field data.
    • Knowledge of fire science and geospatial analysis or expertise experience using a variety of GIS, both proprietary (e.g., ArcGIS Pro, Google Earth Engine R geospatial packages, python - geopandas, arcpy) and open source (e.g., QGIS, Python, R, Julia, PostGIS, GRASS) to maintain data repositories and complete geospatial analyses.
    • Field experience working with forest and fuels inventory data and forest growth and yield modelling.
    • Programming skills either in Python or R and experience writing SQL queries or using code-driven analytical tools (e.g., R, Python, Julia, and others.) to manipulate and analyze both spatial and tabular data.
    • Experience using GIS and remote sensing to map and characterize distribution of plant species, vegetation communities, fire regimes and wildland fuels with a familiarity with FACTS, LANDFIRE, GNN, and CWHR spatial datasets.

    DESIRED:

    • Skills on using and calibrating inventory tools that include hypsometer, clinometer, laser, stereoscope, loggers/diameter tape, chaining tape, increment borers, and others related to repeatable and accurate measurements.
    • Experience on fire behavior and fire effects computer models.
    • Experience with videoconference software.
    • Experience with web services and applications.
    • Experience working collaboratively with research scientists.
    • Demonstrated ability to create clear and concise visual displays of quantitative data.
    • Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
    • Sincere interest in learning about natural resource management applications and fire science.

    WORKING CONDITIONS:

    The appointment is full time, 40 hours per week. Most of the work will be conducted in the laboratory. On the second year of the project, we will conduct a field data collection and it will be required to hike carrying field packs that may weight approximately 60 pounds. Crews work at elevations ranging from 3,500 to 14,000 feet when accessing permanent inventory plots and expected to hike long distances to reach plot locations both on- and off-trail, and work on steep and or rough terrain. Crews will be working in sun, rain, and snow, across the full range of temperatures which can change rapidly throughout the day.

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Vendor Manager, Geospatial
  • Amazon
  • Bellevue, WA FULL_TIME
  • DESCRIPTIONAmazon’s Geospatial team is looking for a Vendor Manager, a pivotal role where our vision is to provide the best mapping solution for logistics with focus on a safe, efficient and frictionl...
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Vendor Manager, Geospatial
  • Amazon.com Services LLC
  • Bellevue, WA FULL_TIME
  • 5 years of developing, negotiating and executing business agreements experience 5 years of professional or military experience Bachelor's degree Experience developing strategies that influence leaders...
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Principal Technical Program Manager, Geospatial Data
  • Amazon
  • Bellevue, WA FULL_TIME
  • DESCRIPTIONCome help build innovative new technologies for delivering billions of customer packages at the customer doorstep! The Last Mile Delivery & Technology team owns the technical solutions that...
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Compensation Analyst
  • University of Washington (UW) Medicine
  • Renton, WA FULL_TIME
  • Job DetailJob Title:Compensation AnalystReq:2023-1058Location:VMC Main CampusDepartment:Human ResourcesShift:DaysType:Full TimeFTE:1Hours:City State:Renton, WASalary Range:Min $88,168 - Max $140,185/a...
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Reporting Analyst
  • Equal Opportunity Schools
  • Seattle, WA FULL_TIME
  • Reporting Analyst Job Opportunity Who We Are Equal Opportunity Schools (EOS) is a mission-driven national non-profit organization that was founded in 2010. We leverage technology and the collective po...
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Urgent Care Physician - South King County, Seattle area
  • Valley Medical Center
  • Renton, WA
  • We are hiring for THREE full-time (1.0 FTE) Urgent Care Physicians to join our established, collaborative and collegial ...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Interventional Cardiologist
  • Valley Medical Center
  • Renton, WA
  • Seeking an Interventional Cardiologist to join our collaborative team | 4 Day work week | We are currently hiring for a ...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Phlebotomist
  • Pride Health
  • Renton, WA
  • Pride Health is currently looking candidates for Phlebotomist I position in Renton, WA. This is a 3-months contract posi...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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C# .Net Developer
  • OSI Consulting
  • Renton, WA
  • C# .Net Developer Role: Full Time- 3 days Hybrid Location: Renton, Washington Responsibilities: Responsible for handling...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Front Desk Receptionist
  • Vaco
  • Renton, WA
  • Job Title: Front Desk Receptionist Location: Renton, WA Our client is seeking a professional and friendly Front Desk Rec...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Landscape Production Manager
  • LandCare LLC
  • Renton, WA
  • Production Managers at LandCare are crucial members of our operations team. Production Managers lead the frontline crews...
  • 4/19/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Remote Sensing Scientist
  • Land IQ
  • Seattle, WA
  • Land IQ, LLC is seeking a Remote Sensing Scientist in its Sacramento, California office with a specialization in data dr...
  • 4/17/2024 12:00:00 AM
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Remote Sensing Scientist
  • Land Iq
  • Seattle, WA
  • Land IQ, LLC is seeking a Remote Sensing Scientist in its Sacramento, California office with a specialization in data dr...
  • 4/16/2024 12:00:00 AM
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About Renton, Washington

Renton is a city in King County, Washington, and an inner-ring suburb of Seattle. Situated 11 miles (18 km) southeast of downtown Seattle, Renton straddles the southeast shore of Lake Washington, at the mouth of the Cedar River. After a long history as an important salmon fishing area for Native Americans, Renton was first settled by people of European descent in the 1860s, and its early economy was based on coal mining, clay production, and timber export. Today, Renton is best known as the final assembly point for the Boeing 737 family of commercial airplanes, but it is also home to a growin...
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