location: United States - Seattle, WA
postion summary
Wildlife Insights is a new platform that aims to revolutionize wildlife conservation by providing cutting edge AI technology, a cloud-based data sharing platform and access to the world’s largest and most diverse camera trap dataset. By bringing together the latest in conservation technology, Wildlife Insights is enabling conservationists to leverage big data for wildlife conservation. The Wildlife Insights partners include Conservation International, Smithsonian Institution, Wildlife Conservation Society, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, WWF, Map of Life, Zoological Society of London and Google.
The Wildlife Insights team is looking for a motivated Data Science Intern to develop tools and materials to help new users overcome one of the largest barriers to sharing camera trap data - data standardization. To address this barrier, Wildlife Insights has established robust data standards that must be met by all incoming data. But for many prospective Wildlife Insights users, this means that they will need to transform data that they have already collected and processed into the Wildlife Insights data standard. The Data Science Intern will play an important role in enabling these prospective users to easily migrate their legacy data into Wildlife Insights. By helping to address a key data sharing barrier, the Data Science Intern will ultimately help to grow the Wildlife Insights database and our understanding of global wildlife populations.
The Wildlife Insights Data Science Intern will have an opportunity to interact with researchers, protected area managers, and other conservationists across the world and collaborate with a dedicated team committed to designing solutions to advance wildlife conservation. This internship is a great opportunity for a mission-driven data scientist to apply their expertise to the conservation field!
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Data Science Intern will lead efforts to develop code, documentation, and other materials to help data providers transition from their current camera trap software to Wildlife Insights.
There are several known camera trap data management software packages used by researchers, many of which are listed in this peer reviewed paper. The Data Science Intern will write code to transform data from these software and other popular data management techniques into the format required by Wildlife Insights. The intern will also help develop approaches and/or software to automate this process so that in the future, non-technical users can easily import their catalogued data into the Wildlife Insights platform. They will develop other materials (e.g. documentation, instructions or video guides) to help prospective users apply code to their own datasets.
The intern will also be responsible for other program related tasks as requested by their supervisor.
For more Information and Where to Apply:
https://chu.tbe.taleo.net/chu04/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=CONSERVATION&cws=39&rid=1345
