Environmental Data Scientist: Modeling, GIS & Analytics

Polluxa, Inc.; Kentucky; On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Environmental Data Scientist to support water resources, land stewardship, and policy-focused projects. The role blends environmental science with quantitative analysis, modeling, coding, and data management to inform science-based decisions.

The ideal candidate will analyze, model, and interpret environmental data using Python, R, SQL, GIS, and related tools to develop models, automate workflows, and translate results for researchers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quantitative analysis of environmental datasets related to water resources, watershed conditions, land management, climate, infrastructure, and other Oka’ research and community projects.
• Develop, apply, and evaluate environmental models to better understand environmental processes, assess conditions, evaluate scenarios, and support project management decisions.
• Develop scripts, analytical tools, and automated workflows using Python, R, SQL, or similar programming languages to process, analyze, model, and visualize environmental data.
• Assist project teams with the selection, application, interpretation, and refinement of environmental and statistical modeling approaches.
• Integrate environmental datasets from multiple sources, including field observations, laboratory results, GIS and remote sensing products, monitoring networks, databases, and publicly available datasets.
• Apply GIS and spatial analysis techniques to evaluate environmental conditions, identify spatial patterns, develop project tools, and support environmental modeling.
• Develop maps, figures, dashboards, reports, and other visualization products that clearly communicate environmental conditions, analytical findings, model outputs, and project results.
• Maintain organized and reproducible datasets, analytical workflows, code, model documentation, and metadata so that technical work can be understood and used by other project staff.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor or designee.

Job description

Polluxa, Inc. is seeking an Environmental Data Scientist to support water resources, land stewardship, and policy-focused projects. The role blends environmental science with quantitative analysis, modeling, coding, and data management to inform science-based decisions.

The ideal candidate will analyze, model, and interpret environmental data using Python, R, SQL, GIS, and related tools to develop models, automate workflows, and translate results for researchers and stakeholders.