Biodiversity Research Associate
Yale University is committed to contributing to a better tomorrow, and they are seeking a Biodiversity Research Associate to manage spatial biodiversity data and ensure its quality for scientific reporting. The role involves analyzing data, overseeing a data mobilization team, and maintaining data integrity for research purposes.
Responsibilities
- Determine best methodology for achieving goals efficiently and in a scientifically robust way
- Assess the data quality of datasets prepared by technicians and other data contributors to first evaluate whether any additional work is required in order to meet data standards
- Perform a series of data manipulation tasks using automated approaches utilizing knowledge of ecology and environmental sciences as well as programming knowledge and skills
- Prepare spatial biodiversity datasets to match complete phylogenies. Perform comprehensive literature review of new taxonomic descriptions to identify changes to species distributions and delineating the spatial coverage of new and updated species ranges based on published locality information
- Oversee the daily activities of the data mobilization team, made up of Yale student research assistants. Ensure standards and protocols are being updated and executed
- Analyze and summarize data from various projects for use in scientific papers, grant reporting, and web visualizations. Identify data gaps to drive priorities for data mobilization team
- Determine the most efficient and scientifically rigorous approach for analyzing and summarizing data. Provide recommendations to the full team to change protocols and advise strategic changes to data collection, processing, visualizations, and/or provisioning
- Ensure and maintain the integrity of biodiversity information for scientific analysis and meeting data contributor expectations for any data interpretation and visualization
- Performs additional duties as assigned
Skills
- Master's Degree in a scientific discipline and one year of experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience
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