Research position @ Sustainable Fisheries Branch NMFS

The Sustainable Fisheries Branch has a position announcement on the USAjobs website. This position will serve as a research position in the NMFS SEFSC Sustainable Fisheries Division located in Beaufort NC. The person in this position manages, leads, or performs professional research that involves preserving, conserving, and managing fish and other aquatic species populations and their habitats for ecological purposes and benefits the public. The incumbent advises on, administers, or performs professional work requiring the design, development, and adaptation of mathematical and statistical methods to ecological processes; conducts stock assessments and related analyses either as sole investigator or by participating in workshops; prepares oral and written reports of stock assessments and related analyses; develops methods to improve stock assessments, coordinating efforts with other analysts in the Sustainable Fisheries Branch; provides mathematical statistical, computational consulting to team members.