[ES_JOBS_NET] Research Geologist USGS Woods Hole Coastal & Marine Science Center

[Gonneea, Meagan]

Research Geologist; GS-1350-12 (TERM/DEU-MP)
https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/535103500
Responsibilities

*As a Research Geologist within the Woods Hole Coastal & Marine Science
Center, some of your specific duties will include: *

   - Conducts research on the geologic setting and processes in estuarine
   and wetland regions that affect coastal change.
   - Couples interacting physical, biological, and societal systems through
   observations and models that produce integrated assessments of coastal
   change and vulnerability.
   - Translates research output into applications that support decision
   making by local and national managers and decision-making.
   - Develops analytical techniques to quantify coastal landscape change
   including ecosystem evolution, wetland responses to climate change, and
   assessment and forecasting.
   - Compiles geospatial, ecological, coastal change and hazards data;
   design new approaches or modifications to existing methods for
   assimilating, processing, and analyzing these data.
   - Develops wetland assessment tools, including original computer
   software as well as modifications and extensions of existing applications.
   - Recognizes, investigates, and evaluates conditions or factors that may
   produce sampling or output errors, biases, or anomalies.  Assesses the
   validity of different procedures and techniques to correct errors or
   improve results in data and methods.
   - Participates in multidisciplinary research studies involving
   scientists and technicians, focusing on storm-to-decadal-scale change in
   wetland environments.
   - Designs appropriate analytical programs for accomplishing research
   objectives.
   - Works with multidisciplinary teams to conceive, plan, lead, and
   complete research projects, including both field-based and numerical-based
   components.
   - Disseminates information in peer-reviewed scientific and technical
   journals, and to decision makers.
   - Prepares interpretive scientific products, data products, and
   scientific reports discussing the results of multidisciplinary studies and
   their significance to the fields of geology, geomorphology, coastal
   processes, quantitative methods, and coastal hazards.

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Meagan Eagle Gonneea, PhD
Research Scientist
USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
384 Woods Hole Road
Woods Hole, MA 02543
Office: Gosnold 25
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