Nature-based Climate Solutions Data Scientist (Junior Specialist)
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Summary
The Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) is seeking a highly motivated junior specialist to conduct research and analyses to support two projects focused on nature-based climate solutions. The first project focuses on assessing the socio-ecological implications of rangelands management in South Africa, including leading data management and visualization for a collaborative research project, supporting the development of a remote sensing model assessing pasture quality, and contributing to field work in South Africa. The second project focuses on integrating nature into carbon markets, developing a global model to illuminate climate solution potential, market prices, cost savings, and gains from trade, and adapting this model to regional contexts by incorporating local data and elaborating policy scenarios.
Job description
Responsibilities
- Preparing, processing, combining, and visualizing data
- Conducting literature reviews
- Employing theoretical and empirical approaches to model risk, diversification, and portfolios
- Contributing to the drafting of academic manuscripts, reports, and presentations
- Developing efficient and reproducible workflows to implement best practices for data acquisition and analysis
- Supporting data collection in the field