The biometrician recruited for this position will join the Environmental Analysis and Research Team of the PNW FIA Program, and will possess expertise in forest ecosystem inventories, sampling methods, and modeling. Responsibilities include developing appropriate methods to integrate periodic, annual, Forest Health Monitoring, and specialized inventory data for comprehensive analysis and research studies. Inventory data are from multiple years, several states, and a variety of inventory designs.
Opportunities abound to address both techniques and hypothesis oriented research questions.
This position offers many challenges and is likely to involve interaction and collaboration at both the local and national level. The PNW-FIA program is responsible for the inventory of forestlands in Oregon, Washington, California, Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific Islands. We conduct research on the status and trends in forest condition and forest health. A wide variety of research projects are ongoing that study many components of western forest ecosystems. About the Portland Area Portland, Oregon, is a culturally diverse city anchoring a metropolitan area that is home to about one million people and which enjoys a vibrant economy broadly based on high technology industries, business services, manufacturing, distribution, trade, and regional government.