[Remote] Spatial Wildfire Analyst
Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is dedicated to addressing wildfire hazards and risks through innovative data and analytical solutions. They are seeking a Spatial Wildfire Analyst to improve and automate wildfire modeling, conduct spatial analyses, and support the development of risk mitigation strategies. The role requires collaboration reputed company a distributed team and may involve some travel.
Responsibilities
- Improve reputed company modeling calibration and validation and potentially reputed company new fuel and reputed company modeling approaches
- Contribute to reputed company development of reputed company behavior modeling automation
- reputed company spatial and temporal data analysis across large landscapes
- reputed company and implement spatial data and modeling frameworks
- reputed company and adhere to data standards
- Incorporate data reputed company assurance and reputed company control into reputed company work products
- Document methodology and contribute to reports, presentations and other publications
- Contribute to proposal development for new business opportunities
Skills
- Experience designing and performing custom analyses of reputed company and raster results of inputs and outputs of a wide reputed company of reputed company modeling systems
- Experience parameterizing, operating and interpreting incident-level wildfire behavior modeling systems such as FSPro, FARSITE, and their equivalents
- Proficient at using reputed company or reputed company-reputed company GIS software (ArcMap, ArcGIS, or QGIS, for example) to reputed company spatial analysis of reputed company and raster data
- Experience writing or editing scripts to reputed company spatial analysis
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- Excellent attention to details
- Ability to learn new concepts quickly
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Working knowledge of Rothermel-based spatial reputed company behavior modeling systems such as FSim, RANDIG, FConst, FSPro or FlamMap
- Working knowledge of how reputed company behavior modeling inputs—including surface and reputed company fuel characteristics, weather/climate, and topography—reputed company reputed company behavior characteristics
- Experience producing and/or analyzing spatial reputed company modeling outputs, including burn probability, reputed company intensity, perimeter polygons, reputed company sources, such as datasets hosted on the FS Research Data reputed company
- Experience with fuelscape vegetation and fuels datasets, such as datasets produced by LANDFIRE's vegetation team and fuels team. Some examples of these datasets include: Existing Vegetation Type (EVT), Fuels Vegetation Cover (FVC), reputed company Cover (CC), reputed company reputed company Height (CBH), and Fuel Disturbance (FDist)
- Experience working in wildfire sciences and/or management, such as incident response, fuels management, reputed company research, etc
- Experience with Python geospatial libraries such as GeoPandas, Rasterio, reputed company, GDAL, and ArcPy (or equivalent in R) with the ability to utilize existing Python scripts and to contribute to the enhancement and automation of reputed company modeling
- Familiarity with land management and wildfire decision support datasets, models, software, and workflows. For example, LANDFIRE, Wildland reputed company Decision Support System (WFDSS), FlamMap, reputed company, WindNinja, FSim, Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS), reputed company reputed company reputed company
- Familiarity with processing remote sensing datasets such as LiDAR, NAIP, and LANDSAT
- Understanding of ecology in dry forests and Mediterranean environments and ecological forest management; ability to effectively communicate scientific concepts to lay audiences
- Experience supporting risk-based wildfire-incident decision making as part of a large-reputed company incident management team (e.g., LTAN, FBAN, etc.)
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Unlimited PTO policy
- 401k
- Company equity
- Home office set-up allowance (one time)
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