Senior Fisheries Biometrician - Statistical Ecology

Innovate!, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K with match

Life Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Innovate! Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a Senior Fisheries Biometrician to serve as a senior statistical and ecological data scientist supporting NOAA Fisheries with advanced probabilistic, mark-recapture, survival, migration, and simulation analyses that inform management decisions for Pacific salmon and other West Coast fisheries resources.

Contingent upon contract being awarded. Location: on-site at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA or at associated field stations in

Qualifications

• PhD in statistics, mathematics, fisheries, ecology or closely related quantitative discipline.
• Ten or more years of directly relevant experience; advanced-degree substitutions may be applied.
• Demonstrated experience developing and applying advanced statistical models to fisheries, ecological, environmental, or marine research questions.
• Knowledge and applied experience in Bayesian statistics and mark-recapture methods is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced statistical analysis to inform fisheries management, recovery, permitting, hydropower, and life-cycle decisions.
• Analyze spatial and temporal variability in processes affecting migrating salmon, including survival and migration through river and hydropower systems.
• Quantify relationships among fish density, growth, survival, migration rate, environmental conditions, ecological stressors, habitat metrics, and management actions.
• Develop probabilistic, mathematical, hierarchical, and simulation models representing complex ecological and behavioral processes.
• Provide statistical consultation and support to researchers during study design, sampling design, model selection, analysis, validation, and interpretation.
• Organize, curate, document, and quality-control ecological datasets used for mark-recapture and related statistical modeling.
• Develop and share reproducible analytical workflows and research methods through GitHub and open-science platforms.
• Archive final data, models, scripts, and analysis products in scientific repositories or dashboards.
• Publish scientific papers and reports, maintain regular communication with team members, and present results at meetings.

Skills

Statistical modeling

R programming

Bayesian statistics

Stan/JAGS

Linux / shell scripting

C/C++ interfacing

GitHub / reproducible research

Fisheries ecology

Education

PhD in statistics, mathematics, fisheries, ecology

Tools

R

Stan

JAGS

Linux

Shell scripting

Job description

Innovate! Inc. in Seattle, WA, is seeking a Senior Fisheries Biometrician to serve as a senior statistical and ecological data scientist supporting NOAA Fisheries with advanced probabilistic, mark-recapture, survival, migration, and simulation analyses that inform management decisions for Pacific salmon and other West Coast fisheries resources.

Contingent upon contract being awarded. Location: on-site at the Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, WA or at associated field stations in