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Ecological Statistician, Montana State University www.StatsJobs.com First, white-nose syndrome ( WNS ) is a fungal disease that has decimated bat communities overwintering in large cave hibernacula in the eastern and central United States. These losses have led directly to the listing of some bat species (including one that has a range extending into Montana) as well as petitions to list others. The slow but continued westward movement of WNS points to a need to evaluate species information collected to date in the context of a pre-disease environment. This position will work in collaboration with the US Geological Survey ( USGS ), Montana State University ( MSU ), Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to analyze existing bat acoustic survey data to develop predictive maps of species distributions and a monitoring plan with known power to detect population changes of a given magnitude due to WNS . Results will inform conservation of Montana’s bats. Second, NPS’s Upper Columbia Basin Network and the Greater Yellowstone Network developed a long-term monitoring protocol for assessing changes in sagebrush steppe vegetation over space and time in response to biological invasion, disturbances and park management actions, and broader global environmental changes. Tools used to analyze these data now must be modified to accommodate more flexible and biologically-realistic models to incorporate a variety of latent cover class distributions and observer errors. This position will work in collaboration with the USGS , MSU , and NPS to develop statistical models and related tools for analyzing vegetation monitoring data collected as categorical visual estimates of above-ground cover, a central component of the upland vegetation monitoring protocol. More Information >>>>> http://bit.ly/2eHe0zO You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.