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ABMI Applied Ecologist

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Canada
Closing date
Jun 9, 2016

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Job Details

This position has a term of one year with a possibility of extension and offers a comprehensive benefits package which can be viewed at: www.hrs.ualberta.ca.

Working in the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute's (ABMI) Science Centre, the ABMI Applied Ecologist will be responsible for providing analytical and scientific support to provincial planning initiatives such as the Land Use Framework, Biodiversity Management Framework, watershed planning, and municipal planning. The incumbent will work closely with a team of experts to deliver information related to the status and trends in environmental indicators (including habitat/vegetation types, high profile species, species at risk, and biodiversity) across Alberta. The incumbent will be a key technical resource within the ABMI and creates new analysis to support regional sustainability assessments, cumulative effects assessment and reporting.

 

Duties

  • Responsible for the analysis of biodiversity data collected by ABMI to estimate the occurrence and abundance of numerous plant and animal species, including trends over time
  • Responsible for the analysis of relationships between species occurrence/abundance and human development factors such as vegetation clearing
  • Produces papers in the scientific literature about the analysis of biodiversity data; collaboration with academics and other members of the science community is expected
  • Supports the delivery of ABMI projects related to ecosystem services assessment, climate change adaptation, design and evaluation of monitoring designs for rare species and assessment of biodiversity recovery after reclamation of industrial footprints
  • Supports the creation and dissemination of reports and other information products led by the ABMI Information Centre
  • Integrates ABMI data with information from other sources, such as government and industry monitoring data, to complete the above tasks
  • Understands and addresses issues related to sampling design, statistical distributions and software to undertake all of the above analyses
  • Organizes species, vegetation and habitat data for analyses
  • Evaluates multiple options for solving the challenges; presents results and recommendations to other ABMI staff, collaborators and the broader scientific community
  • Develops and reports quality control procedures for ABMI data, analyses and modeling
  • Works with government and industry technical representatives to explore the application of ABMI data and data products to planning, policy development and environmental resource management

 

Qualifications

  • MSc in statistics, ecology or a related natural resource management field preferred; equivalent combinations of education and experience will be considered
  • 3 or more years experience working in the field of resource management
  • Experience modeling species response human disturbances
  • Experience working in Alberta ecosystems
  • Experience with a broad diversity of taxa
  • Research experience in community ecology
  • Programming experience to create simulations that allow testing of various sampling designs and statistical models
  • Experience working on multidisciplinary and research teams
  • Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills; strong analytical ability
  • Thorough understanding of statistical theory
  • A proven record of developing and testing models to analyze complex sample designs and multivariate ecological data
  • Basic GIS ability

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