Marine Development Analyst Level 1

Think Tank, Inc.

13th St, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA

Published: 6/14/2022

Technology

Full Time

Job Description

*US Citizenship Required

*Onsite at a NEFSC

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Marine Development Analyst will support the Northeast Fisheries Science Center (NEFSC) by providing scientific and technical expertise related to the coexistence of fisheries and offshore development. The analyst will contribute to regional-scale ecosystem research and monitoring, evaluate the impacts of marine development activities-such as offshore wind-on NOAA's surveys and stock assessments, and support collaborative initiatives with the Greater Atlantic Regional Fisheries Office (GARFO) and other partners. Responsibilities include conducting technical reviews of regulatory documents, analyzing spatial and temporal fisheries data, developing statistical survey designs, and performing impact assessments on marine ecosystems and fisheries operations. The position also requires preparing manuscripts, technical reports, and presentations, contributing to committee and working group activities, and supporting the integration of new observation systems. The analyst will play a key role in formulating data-driven recommendations for mitigating development impacts on NOAA trust resources and operations.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support scientific needs related to the co-existence of fisheries and offshore development.
Provide scientific support to the joint NEFSC and GARFO.
Support projects to more effectively engage in the science and management activities related to marine development.
Advance regional collaborative ecosystem-scale research and monitoring programs; and analyze the effects and impacts of proposed developments at regional scales, including impacts on NOAA's scientific enterprise, e.g., surveys and 60+ stock assessments.
Conduct technical reviews of marine development project-specific regulatory submissions.
Advance cooperative research activities with NOAA collaborators including regional fishing industry partners.
Support the technical needs and participate in the scientific committee(s) of emerging regional fisheries and marine development
Through collaboration with experts, evaluate and address the impacts of pending developments on NOAA Fisheries Surveys, assessments, and management measures.
Formulate and support technical analyses of regional monitoring programs and site-specific plans.
Analyze and present NOAA fisheries data, including spatial and spatio-temporal analyses of fisheries independent and fisheries dependent data.
Develop and evaluate new statistical survey designs and survey methods for sampling and modeling fish populations, including the integration of new methods and designs with existing approaches to support stock assessment. Develop and evaluate observation system simulation models and similar approaches to evaluate the effects of changes to fishery resource statistical survey design and sampling methods, including the integration of existing time series.
Development of manuscripts for publication, technical memorandums/reference documents, and presentation materials.
Contribute to seagoing research and monitoring to assess ecological components that may be impacted by marine development.
Identify, develop, maintain, and update needed GIS datasets, database, and metadata.
Perform quality assurance and control (QA/QC) on any collected GIS data.
Add metadata from new data streams to InPort, the NMFS Enterprise Data Management Program and make all public data Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR).

REQUIREMENTS:

Degree (Bachelors or Masters) degree in a field directly related to the task requirements.
Minimum of 2 years of experience in the field
Current MS Office skills
PHP, PL/SQL, R, ArcGIS, and/or other programming languages
Experience working with Oracle database systems