Riverscapes Application Support Specialist (Researcher l)

Requisition ID: 2025-8751

of Openings: 1

Location: US-UT-Logan Category: Research (non-Faculty) Position Type: Benefited Full-Time Job Classification: Exempt College: Quinney College of Natural Resourcs Department: Watershed Sciences Advertised Salary: Commensurate with experience, plus excellent benefits

Overview The Riverscapes Assessment and Monitoring (RAM) Lab at Utah State University's Department of Watershed Sciences invites applications for a Riverscapes Application Support Specialist (Researcher l). This role will focus on evaluating the effectiveness of low-tech, process-based restoration strategies at improving riverscape health. The successful candidate will conduct comparative analyses between control sites (riverscapes without restoration interventions) and treatment sites (riverscapes that have undergone restoration actions) to determine the impact of these interventions on overall riverscape health. Three years of monitoring is already done for nine treatment sites and eight control sites in the Klamath and Warner Lakes Basins in Southern Oregon. The researcher will complete one additional year of monitoring following an established protocol, and then write at least one journal article on the short-term (<3 year) results around the efficacy of LTPBR. Additionally, the researcher will be responsible for disseminating their findings through peer-reviewed publications.

Responsibilities Technical Writer, Documentation and Instructor - 60%:

• Maintaining and authoring technical resources for the Riverscapes Consortium apps, models, and datasets (https://www.riverscapes.net/page/discover). This includes the recording of how-to videos, tutorials, and authoring online documentation and knowledge base articles.
• Work with our software developers, research staff, graduate students and GIS technicians to populate and complete useful and engaging content.
• Become proficient in consuming and interpreting these tools and datasets and eventually in authoring the technical resources that support the Riverscapes Consortium apps models, and datasets.
• Lead in person and remote teaching sessions, webinars and workshops.

Helpdesk Agent - 25%:

• Act as the primary contact for inquiries from researchers, practitioners, policy makers and the general public about Riverscape Consortium apps , models, websites, and datasets. This will primarily be through issue tracking in our help desk software (https://riverscapes.freshdesk.com).

Developer Liaison - 15%:

• Liaising with Riverscapes Consortium model and tool developers to help them make their models "riverscapes compliant" and/or get their datasets curated and in the Riverscapes Data Exchange.
• Regular, in-person coordination via team meetings in Logan, Utah is expected.
• The position will involve occasional travel for field work and to participate in workshops, field trips, meetings and training with community members.

Qualifications Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in relevant field plus two years of related experience; OR a master's degree; OR an equivalent combination of education and experience in a field of... For full info follow application link.

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