Regional Sustainability Analyst

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is seeking a highly skilled Regional Monitoring Fellow to join their team. 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 fellow will assist 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:

• Monitoring:
  • Collaborate with NOAA and U.S. Geological Survey staff on remote sensing of habitat extent and condition, as well as climate-driven events such as wildfires, river floods, sea level rise, and storm surge.
  • Conduct field surveys of topography, landscape context, hydrology, physical structure, biotic structure, and human- and climate-induced stressors.
  • Coordinate with local agencies to acquire socioeconomic data to evaluate the effectiveness of Climate Resilience Regional Challenge–funded adaptation projects.
  • 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.
• 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.
• Implementation:
  • Collaborate with staff at the Central Coast Wetlands Group on implementing living shoreline projects on state park lands in the project area.

You will also be responsible for compiling project-level monitoring data collected by partner organizations, 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, 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.