Position Summary
The Michigan Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University seeks a postdoctoral scholar to work on a project to analyze bird – habitat relationships across Michigan. The postdoctoral scholar will work on the project, led by Dr. Brett DeGregorio and Dr. Steven Gray, funded by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and will work closely will colleagues from the agency. The ultimate goal and desired deliverables include an interactive, web-based mapping app that displays the distribution of all bird species occurring in Michigan and their likelihood of occurrence at any given location based on remotely sensed habitat features and available eBird status and trends data. Candidate will be responsible for analyzing avian-habitat relationships and developing the interactive web-based mapping tool to display results. Project will consist of two components: the analysis of the avian-habitat associ...