Biometrician

Lead Biometrician in the Forest Planning and Inventory group. The individual will have a lead role in key company initiatives including carbon modelling, growth and yield modelling, harvest scheduling, silviculture, forest inventory, year-end inventory, and forest data management and design.

Forest Biometrics:

• Assess, validate and document company forest and carbon growth systems to help ensure reliable and consistent future forest timber and carbon estimates.

• Assess, validate and document company tree merchandizing systems to help ensure reliable and consistent current and future forest timber estimates.

• Assist with/conduct validations and verifications of growth and yields for projecting regional harvest schedules.

Forest Analytics and Forest Carbon:

• Lead the testing of forest inventory and forest carbon measurement and verification methodologies

• Conduct analysis and utilize applied statistics for forest inventory, forest carbon offset and forest planning projects.

• Conduct strategic and tactical planning exercises to support Timberland’s harvest scheduling, silvicultural investments and acquisition and disposition opportunities.

• Provide technical support and data analyses to create and improve decision support tools.

Data Quality Assurance/Control:

• Develop and document procedures to ensure the validity and credibility of all resource data, harvest scheduling outputs, analyses and reports.

• Support and assist with overseeing the annual year-end forest inventory tabular data update that produces revised forest inventory and carbon estimates by region and product.

• Ensure procedures for inventory updates are understandable and accurately implemented.

• Ensure that sample designs and intensities are consistent, reproducible and appropriate to the resource and management objectives.