What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ocean Enterprise Research Technician III position at usm?
Job Summary
This position is located at the Marine Research Center, in
Gulfport MS and is part of the USM Roger F. Wicker Center for Ocean
Enterprise. The Center works with industry, state and federal government
and academic partners for research, development, testing, and evaluation of
ocean sensing buoys as well as uncrewed surface and subsurface marine vehicles
including but not limited to platform, payload, command and control systems,
power system and data integration/analysis. This is entry level, part time, less than 20 hours a week.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- Participate in test and evaluation of UxS, other autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles or platforms and performs analysis of data collected.
- Provides programmatic and technical support to project directors or principal investigators and collaborate with Ocean Enterprise, USM and external researcher as appropriate.
- Organize and Maintain tools and equipment.
- Conduct research to advance hardware, software, and techniques to develop computational algorithms and statistical methods that find patterns and relationships in large volumes of data.
- Manage, collect, visualize, analyze, and summarize data, data reports, experiments, and field activities. Prepares material for publication, including maps, tables and other illustrative material.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
