Application/Database Developer Environmental Decision Making
The Department of Management Information Systems (MIS), part of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, invites applications for a full stack web applications developer. This position will support an NSF-funded research project and is an exciting opportunity to be part of a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research team related to environmental decision making in the U.S. The team comprises faculty with backgrounds in data science (Sudha Ram, Co-PI), natural language processing (Steven Bethard, Co-PI), and environmental law & public policy (Laura López-Hoffman, PI; Marc Miller, Co-PI; Elizabeth Baldwin, Co-PI; & Tyler Scott, Co-PI, UC Davis; and other senior personnel). The selected candidate will develop scalable techniques for organizing, analyzing, and publishing scholarly papers on U.S. environmental documents and data arising from a variety of document repositories and sources (including the Hathi Trust, and the Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Federal Highway Administration, other federal agencies) and existing databases. The candidate will integrate these disparate data sources using relational and graph databases. They will also develop a web front-end and a suite of tools to support the retrieval and analysis of data. The selected candidate should be comfortable with all phases of the software development life cycle. This is a one-year position, renewable to a maximum of 3 years, with the possibility of renewal contingent on availability of funding and satisfactory job performance. For more information and to apply, see https://uacareers.com/postings/33351. ============= Submitted to ECOLOG-L by the López-Hoffman Lab School of Natural Resources and the Environment The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 520.626.9868
