Field Ecologist & Wildlife/Fisheries Biologist

What You'll Do6

• Write research-level problems pulled from your own specialty, whether that is population modeling, occupancy estimation or fisheries assessment.
• Ground every problem in data you collected during real field seasons, including tagging, telemetry or catch and age records.
• Set your own hours and choose your task volume, since no fixed weekly schedule applies.
• Check each submission for technical soundness before you hand it in.
• Document your reasoning and methods well enough that another expert can follow the work.
• Explain field methods and study design in plain written language for readers outside your subfield.

Requirements4

• Hands-on experience analyzing your own real population data in Python or a comparable language.
• Ability to describe technical field work in clear written form.
• Comfort operating without supervision and setting your own deadlines on task-based work.
• Direct work with data you gathered in the field, rather than desk-only GIS, policy or purely theoretical ecology.

Preferred Qualifications6

• Master's or PhD in ecology, wildlife biology, fisheries science or a related field
• Several field seasons of collected data
• Mark-recapture, occupancy or stock assessment modeling experience
• Strong R skills
• Public code, a thesis or published papers that demonstrate your technical work
• Prior data annotation, labeling or AI/ML evaluation work

Who Should Apply

Field ecologists, wildlife biologists and fisheries scientists who collect and analyze their own population data. Agency scientists and postdocs with several field seasons behind them fit well. Desk-only GIS, policy or theory-only backgrounds do not match this work.

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