US Federal Quantitative (Fish) Biologist

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The USGS Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC) is seeking quantitatively minded individuals to fill vacancies on WFRC’s Quantitative Ecology Team. The Quantitative Ecology Team is a small group of statisticians and fish biologists working on a diverse array of quantitative ecological research questions. WFRC has a rich history in pioneering animal telemetry techniques with a particular focus on migrating juvenile salmon in regulated rivers. So naturally, much of our work has centered on developing and applying statistical models for telemetry data to estimate migration rates, migration routes, survival, and factors affecting these demographic parameters.

Desired expertise and experience include developing and applying frequentist and Bayesian statistical models such as mark-recapture models and integrated population models to fish or wildlife populations; animal movement models such as hidden Markov models or state-space models familiarity with time-series and/or spatial statistics; mechanistic simulation models such as agent based and matrix population models; demonstrated ability to work with large or complex datasets including familiarity with relational databases; and/or developing R packages and Shiny Apps.

Specifically, we are looking for someone with interest and capabilities to develop an R package for a class of space-for-time Bayesian capture-recapture models that jointly estimate migration, survival, and other demographic parameters of migrating animals.

The vacancy announcement is open until Nov. 8 and is posted on USAJOBS:
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/815686400

More about the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center can be found here:
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-fi ... rch-center