US Geological Survey careers

Seeking a computer scientist with a recently awarded Master’s degree to support a program to quantify the Great Lakes ecosystem using autonomous vehicles and machine vision. To be eligible, you must provide proof of graduation within the last year. The incumbent will join a research team using autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and machine vision to quantify biological and physical features of the lakebed to support fisheries management decision making at multiple scales. The AUVs gather large volumes of color and grayscale imagery near the lakebed. These data are, in turn, used to quantify three-dimensional lakebed structure, classify geologic substrates, and count fishes and other organisms using algorithms contributed by multiple collaborators. The primary roles of the computer scientist will be to help (1) implement and improve contributed machine vision algorithms to quantify lake physical and biological features; (2) generate science products and peer-reviewed publication