Demonstrated expertise in landscape ecology and coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics required.
Experience using remote sensing, geospatial data, historical climate datasets, vegetation-change products, or comparable environmental data sources required.
Demonstrated ability to acquire, manage, analyze, and interpret long-term ecological, environmental, geospatial, and remote-sensing datasets.
Ability to develop scientifically sound research questions, hypotheses, study approaches, and analytical methods.
Demonstrated experience preparing peer-reviewed journal articles, technical reports, scientific figures, tables, data products, and presentations.
Familiarity with federal scientific-data requirements, metadata standards, data documentation practices, and reproducible research methods.
Ability to develop FGDC-compliant metadata and maintain thorough documentation for datasets, analytical procedures, and research products.
Ability to successfully complete a federal background investigation and maintain required access credentials.
Ability to meet fieldwork-related safety, physical, and travel requirements, as needed.