Wildland Fire Fuels Developer

SIG is searching for a wildland fuels modeller to support the creation of a contiguous fuels layer for the continental United States. The maps will be a component of a parcel-level wildfire risk assessment for current and future climate conditions. The successful candidate will have expertise in fire modeling, remote sensing-based approaches for quantifying landscape-scale processes, ecological data science, machine learning methods, and data collection and processing in Google Earth Engine.

This position is a six month contract with opportunity to extend.