[Taxacom] Biodiversity Informatics Position - New Zealand

[Jerry Cooper]

Biodiversity Informatics Position in Christchurch, New Zealand

Landcare Research is New Zealands foremost research organisation in the
area of terrestrial ecosystems and sustainable development. The
organisation employs 400 staff at nine locations throughout New Zealand.
Major areas of research are systematics of terrestrial organisms,
ecology, environmental monitoring, climate change, the management of
weeds and pests, and soil and water resources. This post is with the
Biodiversity Informatics group within the Informatics Team

Our Informatics team encompasses Biodiversity Informatics, Remote
Sensing, and GIS. The Biodiversity Informatics group is responsible for
the development of applied solutions across the organisation. Current
activities and areas of interest include: distributed biodiversity
systems, internet based services and data delivery, integrated metadata
approaches, image management, biodiversity data standards (ABCD, SDD,
Darwin Core, TCS etc), GUIDs 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 tools, expert systems,
national taxonomic database resources, 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. 

For more information and application process see:

http://www.bfound.net/detail.aspx?jobId=46612&CoId=370&rq=4

Contact Nick Spencer spencern at landcareresearch.co.nz (Research Leader,
Biodiveresity Informatics) if you require further information.

Jerry Cooper

 
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Jerry Cooper PhD
Science Leader - Informatics
Landcare Research
PO Box 40, Lincoln 8152
New Zealand
Tel. +64 (0)3 321 9641


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