American University · 1 day ago
Part-Time Research Assistant
Washington, DC
Part-time
Onsite
Entry Level
$22/hr - $22/hr
1+ years expAmerican University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges. They are seeking a Part-Time Research Assistant to work with Professor Alonzo on finalizing a manuscript related to climate and land cover, involving data processing, statistical analysis, and manuscript preparation.
Higher Education
Responsibilities
Analysis and Processing of Remote Sensing Data
The RA will process satellite data to corrected surface reflectance using relative radiometric normalization. They will confirm date-to-date geolocation alignment and report out uncertainties from radiometry and image alignment. They will extract pixel values from all images using buffered, point shapefiles
Statistical Analysis
The RA will gain expertise in the phenofit R package and produce phenological times series based on the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) at individual trees. With extracted phenometrics, they will build and test linear mixed models and XGBoost models to gain information about the relationships between climate cues, tree location in the urban environment, and the timing of phenological events
Literature Review
The RA will build a body of literature in support of contextualizing their quantitative findings. This will involve literature search, construction of an annotated bibliography, and, finally, a literature review suitable for an article introduction and discussion section
Manuscript Preparation
The RA will synthesize and collate quantitative and supporting information from the previous tasks into a manuscript suitable for submission in an appropriate peer-reviewed journal
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree or equivalent
Less than 1 year of relevant experience
Must have experience building and analyzing phenological models using PlanetScope data in semi-arid climates
Preferred
Bachelor's degree
Company
American University
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