Coastal Resilience Specialist

We are seeking a highly skilled Coastal Resilience Specialist to join our team at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). As a key member of the Central Coast Wetlands Group, you will play a crucial role in supporting the Climate Resilience Regional Challenge (CRRC) projects.

The Coastal Resilience Specialist will be responsible for assisting with the "Monterey Bay Climate Adaptation Regional Monitoring" project, which aims to implement living shoreline projects on state park lands in the project area. You will work closely with staff at the Central Coast Wetlands Group to plan and execute these projects, ensuring effective climate-driven events management and habitat monitoring.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Project Planning:
  • Work with staff at the Central Coast Wetlands Group on planning efforts for living shoreline projects on state park lands in the project area.
• Fieldwork:
  • Perform field surveys of topography, landscape context, hydrology, physical structure, biotic structure, and human- and climate-induced stressors.
  • Collect data on climate-driven events such as wildfires, river floods, sea level rise, and storm surge.
• Data Analysis:
  • Organize data for quality assurance verification and sharing with statewide and national datasets.
  • Assist with geographic information system analyses of habitat condition and flood risk reduction.
  • Assist with overall data analysis and the creation of integrated regional reports.

You will also be responsible for coordinating the identification, compilation, sharing, and analysis of social and economic information collected by local and regional agencies and municipalities to assess adaptation project performance, compiling project-level monitoring data collected by partner organizations, collecting standardized project-level data to document measurable risk reduction outcomes, and analyzing and reporting on the project-specific and regional scale implications of these projects to support ongoing climate resiliency action.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• A master's degree in environmental science, ecology, natural resource management, marine science, hydrology, geography, or a related field.
• Experience with habitat monitoring and mapping, coastal resilience modeling, compiling and analyzing spatial ecological and socioeconomic data in ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, compiling and analyzing ecological and socioeconomic data in R and/or Python, coordinating and communicating with multiple partners, developing and maintaining data management systems, and local or regional knowledge of, or a connection with, the Monterey Bay region.