Senior Marine Data Steward & Research Specialist

Columbia University in the City of New York; New York (NY); In loco; USD 65.000 - 67.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

The Senior Research Staff Assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York will contribute to high-level data stewardship and synthesis within the Marine and Large Programs Division, focusing on the Seabed 2030 Project, MGDS, and GMRT Synthesis. You will process, integrate, validate, and quality-control marine geoscience data for public access, including multibeam bathymetric datasets and metadata.

You will support capacity-building, workflow development, stakeholder engagement, and

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline is required; minimum of 2 years in a research environment.
• Experience with multibeam sonar data processing and marine geoscience data systems.
• Proficiency in Caris, Qimera, MBSystem; familiarity with UNIX/Linux environments.
• Demonstrated ability in Python, shell scripting, or similar for workflow automation and data manipulation.
• Experience with GIS tools (ArcGIS, QGIS, GeoMapApp) and spatial data management.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Mansioni

• Review, process and integrate multibeam bathymetric data for Seabed 2030 and GMRT, including quality review of datasets and metadata.
• Execute data ingestion and curation workflows for MGDS, developing configuration files that drive existing workflows.
• Contribute to training and documentation materials for internal use and external collaborators.
• Participate in stakeholder engagement, capacity-building activities, and community workshops.
• Other duties as assigned, including collaborative research, system development, and report preparation.
• Work under close supervision of the PI/Senior Research Scientist and may exercise independent judgment within parameters.

Conoscenze

Multibeam data processing

Python

Shell scripting

GIS tools

Data stewardship

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline

Strumenti

Caris

Qimera

MBSystem

UNIX/Linux

Descrizione del lavoro

The Senior Research Staff Assistant at Columbia University in the City of New York will contribute to high-level data stewardship and synthesis within the Marine and Large Programs Division, focusing on the Seabed 2030 Project, MGDS, and GMRT Synthesis. You will process, integrate, validate, and quality-control marine geoscience data for public access, including multibeam bathymetric datasets and metadata.

You will support capacity-building, workflow development, stakeholder engagement, and