[Taxacom] Biodiversity Informatics Position, New Zealand

[Jerry Cooper]

Biodiversity Informatics Position in Christchurch, New Zealand

Landcare Research is New Zealand's foremost research organisation in
the area of terrestrial ecosystems and sustainable development. The
company employs 400 staff at nine locations throughout New Zealand.
Major areas of research are in fields of terrestrial conservation
biology and ecology, environmental monitoring, climate change, the
management of weeds and pests, and soil and water resources. 

The Informatics team comprises Biodiversity data systems, Remote
Sensing, and GIS expertise and is responsible for the development of
applied solutions across a wide range of disciplines including: ecology,
systematics, environmental sustainability, climate change, and soils.
Our current activities and areas of interest in the field of Informatics
include: distributed biodiversity systems, internet based services and
data delivery, integrated metadata approaches, image management,
biodiversity data standards (ABCD, SDD, Darwin Core, TCS etc), GUID's
and LSID resolvers, RDF, and taxonomic systems. New opportunities for
the group include ecological trait systems underpinned by
biosystematics, development of vegetation data exchange schemas,
environmental sustainability, expert systems, and furthering integration
of our biodiversity and geo-spatial data. The group is also an active
member of a number of national and international informatics groups and
activities, e.g., TDWG, GBIF, HISCOM (Australasian Herbarium Information
Systems Committee), IndexFungorum Partnership, and IAVS (International
Association of Vegetation Scientists).

We are seeking a person specialising in the analysis and design of
biodiversity information systems. The post would suit a biologist with
strong informatics skills (including GIS, software development, and
RDBMS concepts and development experience). You will have a minimum of a
tertiary qualification in a related biological discipline supported by a
strong computer science background. Our software platform is a mixture
of Novell/Microsoft/ESRI with development primarily undertaken in the
MS.Net 2.0 framework, VS.2005, SQL Server 2005, XMLSpy, and ESRI tools.
Experience with this development environment would be beneficial.
You will have well-developed communication and interpersonal skills
with the ability to participate actively in a team environment. You
should be comfortable discussing problems, analysing and formulating
solutions equally with biological scientists, non-technical users, and
IS analysts and software developers.
A high level of initiative, innovation and motivation, combined with
good time management, and the ability to manage and lead projects is
required. Strong problem solving skills with an aptitude for learning
and implementing emerging technologies is also important.

The position is based in Lincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand and will
initially be for 2 years with the potential to become permanent beyond
this period.
Applications remain open until a suitable candidate is identified.  
For further details of this position please contact:
Jerry Cooper - cooperj at landcareresearch.co.nz or
 Nick Spencer - spencern at landcareresearch.co.nz 
Landcare Research website: www.landcareresearch.co.nz 

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