Forest Carbon Analyst

The Nature Conservancy’s North America Region is expanding our capacity to conduct rigorous applied scientific investigations of the impacts of forest management on carbon and natural resource production on private lands in the United States. The Forest Carbon Analyst provides technical and scientific support for a carbon program aimed at incentivizing forest landowners to improve their management activities. The Forest Carbon Analyst will work within a highly collaborative, driven, team of foresters, scientists, policy and financial experts, and programmatic staff at TNC and our partner organizations. They will work at the direction of the US and Canada Carbon Market Science Director to conduct timely applied scientific investigations to inform implementation carbon projects. The Analyst’s time will be focused on supporting the development of the Family Forest Carbon Program (FFCOP). a partnership TNC and American Forest Foundation program

This position is funded for two years, and it is anticipated that the position will end at that time. An extension may be possible based on needs and funding availability.

The location for this position is flexible to any place in the US where TNC has an already established office.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

The Forest Carbon Analyst works collaboratively within the North America Region, and in close collaboration with members of the NCS Science Team, to process and analyze data, build remote sensing and forest management models, interpret and synthesize results, draft reports, build analytical tools, and disseminate key results to TNC field teams and partners. They will work primarily on topics related to the impact of forest management on standing carbon stocks. Their work will focus largely on analysis of forest inventory data, growth and yield modeling, and determining the additionality of IFM carbon mitigation projects. The Forest Carbon Analyst will lead all modeling necessary to support this work at the direction of the US and Canada Carbon Market Science Director and other TNC scientists. The ideal candidate will be a competent statistician and experienced coder; comfortable working in R; familiar with forest inventory and vegetation data, especially USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis data; experienced using growth and yield models like the Forest Vegetation Simulator; who is also conversant with ArcGIS and comfortable leading basic GIS analyses; and a committed and passionate team player