IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
The Natural Capital Project will be applying its innovative, spatially-explicit ecosystem-service quantification and valuation tool, InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs), at three Department of Defense (DoD) sites within the continental US over a three year period. The DoD is responsible for managing millions of acres within the US, and this project focuses on improving land-use decisions by incorporating ecosystem services into management decisions.
Funding for this project supports the development of a multi-disciplinary team of researchers focused on increasing the efficiency of land-use decisions by the DoD. This team will collaborate to apply InVEST, which will inform resource-management decisions on the demonstration sites and may be incorporated into broader DoD installation-management protocols.
The successful applicant will work in a team to adapt and apply the InVEST ecosystem-service models and will then synthesize these results in order to best inform land-use policy at our demonstration sites. Publication of analyses run using data from demonstration sites and presentation of research findings is encouraged.
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