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    "description": "<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">A.I.S., Inc. (AIS)</span> is a national scientific services firm supporting maritime activities requiring certification of compliance with environmental regulations as well as collecting data for use by Federal, State, Municipal, and other government agencies along the US coastline. AIS is looking for a Bioacoustic Research Scientist II to support NOAAs Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Centers’ (PIFSC), Protected Species Divisions’ Passive Acoustic Studies of Cetaceans program.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Primary Function:</span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">The Bioacoustic Research Scientist II will serve as a senior analyst and task lead, independently executing complex passive acoustic analysis projects in support of cetacean population assessments and ocean soundscape characterization for NOAA PIFSC's Protected Species Division. The position leads all aspects of PAM data analysis, metadata management, data archiving, and scientific dissemination, working in close coordination with the PIFSC Project Lead across seven task areas spanning cetacean detection and classification, Sea glider data processing, acoustic metadata database maintenance, soundscape analysis, fishery vessel acoustics, and participation in national and international scientific working groups.</span></p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Duties/Responsibilities:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Develop automated approaches for detection, classification, and localization of cetaceans using MATLAB, Python, R, PAMGUARD, and other appropriate software.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Characterize call features and examine behavior, occurrence, abundance, seasonality, and habitat of cetacean species based on their acoustic call types.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Perform quantitative analyses of acoustic datasets requiring statistical treatment for use in stock assessments (occurrence, abundance, seasonality, habitat).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Lead and support analysis of Sea glider passive acoustic data, including species classification, propagation modeling, and cloud-based processing workflows.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Lead data processing and archiving efforts, converting RAW acoustic files to WAV format and ensuring proper QA/QC and archiving to NCEI and partner institutions.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Maintain PIFSC acoustic metadata databases (TETHYS, Makara, NCEI) and develop standard procedures for data ingestion, quality checking, and uploading detection data.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Lead soundscape analyses using fixed and drifting acoustic recorder datasets to evaluate ambient noise and cetacean/anthropogenic sounds at hourly to annual scales.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Analyze underwater and in-air recordings from fishery vessels to detect vessel/gear sounds and cetacean detections; conduct acoustic propagation analyses.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Participate in and present at working group meetings and scientific conferences (NCEI, PAM SI, DCLDE, ASA, Marine Mammal Conference, Glider Meetings).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Lead and contribute to peer-reviewed manuscripts and technical reports; manage analysis code in publicly accessible repositories (NOAA Fisheries GitHub Enterprise).</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Log data issues, maintain dataset logs, and report project status to the NOAA COR on a monthly basis via progress reports.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Develop and approve projects in coordination with the PIFSC Project Lead; provide training to staff as needed.</span></li>\n</ul>\n<p><br></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Compensation:</span> Candidates will be paid an hourly rate to be negotiated, and total compensation will vary depending on candidates' depth of experience. This is a full-time position. <span style=\"font-weight: bold\">AIS benefits package includes health and dental insurance, vacation, sick and holiday benefits.</span></span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\"> </span></p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold\">Minimum Qualifications:</span></p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Master's degree in statistics, marine science, or a related field with at least 3 years of relevant experience.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Comprehensive working knowledge of underwater acoustic theory and practice, including acoustic propagation, sound measurement, and advanced signal processing.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt\">Expertise in developing, testing, and validating automated detectors and classifiers for cetacean species and anthropogenic sound sources.</span></li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; 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