The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), is accepting applications for a full-time analyst for dolphin and porpoise calls and processing of audio recordings from offshore of Ocean City, Maryland in support of a impact study of the imminent MARWIN Offshore Windfarm (US Wind). This position is a 1-year Faculty Research Assistant II position, renewable for up to 6 years, to evaluate dolphin and porpoise occurrence within the Southern Mid-Atlantic Bight.

Duties include: post-hoc review of audio recordings for dolphin calls and other ambient sounds, analyzing seasonal and inter-annual detections of dolphins and porpoises from click detections recorded on Chelonia F-POD devices, participation in project team meetings and field work, and contributing to report writing and manuscripts. Applicants should have experience with cetacean bioacoustics, including skills with Chelonia C-PODs or F-PODs, statistics and coding in R, and the acoustics programs Raven and Pamguard.

Applicants must live within daily commuting distance to Solomons, Maryland, USA for team meetings; teleworking can be accommodated. Salary is dependent upon qualifications and experience. Applications are due October 23, 2022. Anticipated start date is January 2023. The full job posting and application port can be found here: https://umces.peopleadmin.com/postings/1611. Questions about the position can be sent to Dr. David Secor (secor@umces.edu), Project Manager of TAILWINDS (https://tail-winds.github.io/).

Jamie Clare Testa

Project Coordinator for Chesapeake DolphinWatch & Wave of Plastic

Faculty Research Assistant at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science- Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (UMCES CBL)

JCTesta@umces.edu

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