Senior Geospatial Scientist: Salmon Habitat Analytics Lead

Innovate!, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401K with match

Life Insurance

PTO

Job summary

Innovate! Inc. is seeking a Senior Geospatial Scientist to provide advanced GIS, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis in support of habitat assessment for NOAA Fisheries and the Northwest Salmon Life Cycle Modeling program.

The role is contingent on contract award and on-site at Seattle facilities or field stations in WA/OR. Responsibilities include integrating large datasets, leading QA/QC, developing reproducible workflows, and delivering maps, dashboards, and reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in fisheries, ecology, natural sciences, mathematics, statistics, oceanography, hydrology, geography, GIS, remote sensing, or a closely related field.
• Three or more years of GIS or geospatial analysis experience; MS may substitute for up to two years and PhD for up to four years.

Responsibilities

• Integrate large spatial, remotely sensed, biological, and environmental datasets across freshwater, estuarine, and nearshore marine habitats.
• Perform advanced GIS and geospatial analyses to characterize salmon habitats, ecological conditions, and environmental stressors.
• Compute and validate spatial indices representing factors such as prey availability, predator abundance, habitat condition, and other ecological metrics used in assessment tools.
• Contribute spatial datasets, indices, and analytical expertise to fish life-cycle models and simulations used to evaluate management scenarios.
• Lead geospatial data processing, QA/QC, visualization, map production, and development of interactive dashboards or other accessible spatial products.
• Design reproducible GIS and scientific data engineering workflows and document methods, metadata, scripts, assumptions, and dependencies in reports and code repositories.
• Store geospatial datasets and analysis products in organized, accessible formats suitable for reuse by NOAA scientists and interdisciplinary collaborators.
• Collect fish and environmental field data when needed, including work around water, travel in vehicles or boats, and occasional support of vessel surveys.
• Write technical reports and status updates, contribute to peer-reviewed manuscripts, and present geospatial methods and findings at scientific meetings and conferences.
• Collaborate with fisheries scientists, quantitative modelers, data managers, field staff, and natural resource managers.

Skills

Geospatial analysis

Remote sensing

Data visualization

Technical writing

Collaboration

Project management

ArcGIS Pro

QGIS

R

Python

GitHub

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in fisheries, ecology, natural sciences, mathematics, statistics, oceanography, hydrology, geography, GIS, remote sensing, or related field

Tools

ArcGIS Pro

QGIS

R

Python

GitHub

Job description

Innovate! Inc. is seeking a Senior Geospatial Scientist to provide advanced GIS, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis in support of habitat assessment for NOAA Fisheries and the Northwest Salmon Life Cycle Modeling program.

The role is contingent on contract award and on-site at Seattle facilities or field stations in WA/OR. Responsibilities include integrating large datasets, leading QA/QC, developing reproducible workflows, and delivering maps, dashboards, and reports.