Informational And Statistical Analyst

Job description

Position Summary This position will support research in the Lark Agricultural Land Solutions (AgLands) Lab. The successful applicant will perform GIS analysis, data processing, cartographic design, and website development and management. Principal duties include: - Providing technical assistance on research projects on U.S. agriculture and environmental policy - Making contributions to scientific publications - Graphic design, programming in Python, R, SQL, JavaScript, and other programming languages - Processing spatial data using advanced techniques - Processing spatial data using advanced techniques Unique Responsibilities: - Spatial database management - Design, implement and maintain spatial landcover databases. Structure databases that can be queried to extract data for analysis. - GIS analysis – Analysis of spatial data to explore geographic patterns and relations among datasets. - Geo-visualization - Create graphics (maps, histograms, scatterplots, etc) for data exploration and representation. - Web mapping - Create interactive web maps for presenting and disseminating datasets created from the lab. Minimum Requirements: Knowledge equivalent to that which normally would be...