Risk

• Provide research support to the USGS team studying wildfire risk to buildings, the wildland-urban interface, and other valued assets
• Advance research on wildfire exposure and risk to inform DOI and USWFS wildfire risk assessments and mitigation strategies
• Develop methods to predict wildfire exposure and building damage at national or larger scales using simulation models, deep learning, and machine learning
• Lead development and publication of journal articles
• Develop, maintain, and expand annual datasets quantifying building losses caused by wildfires
• Develop prototypes and identify data sources for non-building valued assets impacted by wildfires
• Develop, update, and analyze global- and national-scale Wildland Urban Interface datasets using building footprints, census bureau, land cover, and fire occurrence data
• Contribute to the definition, direction, and implementation of the Wildland Fuels Program at EROS
• Participate in virtual and occasional in-person team meetings
• Help shape, manage, and execute projects applying geospatial data and systems to solve geospatial problems

Risk jobs in South Dakota

Wildland Fire Risk Scientist