Research Specialist

Description:

Key Functions include:

• Prepare drawings and maps analyzing and synthesizing insights into existing coastal landscapes
• Review scientific literature, published projects from engineering and landscape design
• Participate in field-based research to describe landscape form and processes
• Participate in design workshops with stakeholders and multi-university project teams
• Advance infrastructure design concepts
• Help build, run, and maintain large, physical models
• Learn and apply numerical coastal models, especially wave and hydrodynamic models
• Produce renderings of natural infrastructure concepts in specific locations
• Assist in the preparation of articles for peer-review and reports for agencies and other constituents
• Drone surveying (training and licensure will be supported)

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture or related discipline and at least 3 years of relevant experience. Master’s degree will be considered in lieu of experience.
• Experience with design, grounded in the integration of aesthetic, cultural, and ecological dimensions of landscape
• Demonstrated ability to learn basic physical and numerical modeling methods and be comfortable with quantitative analysis of landscape form and process
• Strong organizational skills and ability to effectively communicate with others
• Familiarity with software used in landscape architectural representation, including Adobe CS, Rhino 3D, and ArcGIS.