SNS3532A: Staff Research Associate II-III (Location: Colorado)

Unit: Natural SciencesCategory: Scientific/Laboratory ResearchOpening Date: 09/26/2011Description:The Alpine Treeline Warming Experiment is a field experiment replicated at three elevations at Newt Ridge, CO, testing projections of upward shifts in the elevational ranges of subalpine and alpine species (https://alpine.ucmerced.edu/pub/htdocs/index.html). The experiment includes automated heating infrastructure and climate and microclimate measurements. This partial or full-time position will provide critical support to maintaining, archiving, and analyzing these data streams, as well as manually collected ecological and environmental data.Qualifications:• Masters degree in an environmental science field (e.g., biometeorology, ecosystem science, micrometeorology, soil ecology) or a related field, or a bachelor's degree plus masters-equivalent work experience.• Recent PhD graduates with relevant experience may apply (this is not a post-doc position)Preferred Experience:• Experience using automated environmental sensors.• Experience with Campbell Scientific dataloggers, multiplexers and communications devices and software.• Experience working in a collaborative scientific or engineering enterprise.• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in written and oral forms.• Work experience with production data flows.• Knowledge of a wide range of meteorological sensors and measurement techniques and their associated data acquisition and analysis procedures.• Knowledge of Ethernet communication protocols, including security.• Experience with quantitative uncertainty analyses and time-series analyses.• Experience designing metadata and data handling programs Skills and abilities:• Computer programming in Rand/or Matlab and Campbell's programming languages.• High-elevation hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, and/or related physical abilities,