The School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University (https://sols.asu.edu/) is seeking a part-time Research Analyst (biodiversity data portal manager). The position is part of a dynamic, collaborative Biocollections and biodiversity data science group of faculty, staff, students, volunteers, and other researchers that recently relocated into a unified, 28,000 sq. ft. facility. This new and highly accessible infrastructure is located ca. 2 miles from the main ASU Tempe Campus, and forms part of ASU’s BioKIC – Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (https://biokic.asu.edu/). As of 2018, our facility and personnel also constitute the primary Biorepository for NEON, the National Ecological Observatory Network (https://biorepo.neonscience.org).
The part-time position is supported by an award from the National Science Foundation, Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program, for the three-year project “Digitization Thematic Collections Network: Collaborative Research: Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities” (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001394). A central objective for the 25 participating U.S. herbaria is to image and digitize associated metadata for 1.2 million bryophyte and lichen specimens, while also integrating available DNA data, in order to support broadly impacting future evolutionary and ecological research. Arizona State University is among nearly one dozen primary awardee institutions in the network, and will be responsible in particular for developing, hosting and managing the network’s biodiversity data portal and community of contributors and users. Access and use of the data portal is facilitated through the Symbiota software platform (http://symbiota.org/), which is being further developed by members of BioKIC.
A wide range of applicant profiles will be considered; and hence candidates with diverse backgrounds are encouraged. Working partly or entirely remotely is possible. Prior inquiries to nico.franz@asu.edu are encouraged.
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