QUESTION 1. A minimum qualification for this position is “Knowledge of human

QUESTION 1.

A minimum qualification for this position is “Knowledge of human dimensions of natural resources, research methods in social science, natural resource policy, and statistics.”

What is “human dimensions of natural resources” as a field of study, and what are two research questions that remain to be addressed in this field? In preparing your response, please be aware we will also evaluate the following minimum qualification: “Writing skills sufficient to prepare well-written final reports and manuscripts of research methods and findings.”

QUESTION 2.

A minimum qualification for this position is “comprehensive knowledge of the social, psychological, economic, and institutional dynamics of wildlife management, wildlife-associated recreation, and human-wildlife interactions and conflict, survey design, sampling, mixed-mode data collection, weighting, and estimation and their applications.”

Please tell us about your experience designing, conducting, and analyzing the results of surveys intended to estimate parameters of attributes of populations of stakeholders in natural resource management.

QUESTION 3.

Staff in the wildlife research group are expected to communicate findings to multiple audiences, including in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Consequently, “experience publishing conservation social science in the peer-reviewed literature” is a preferred qualification for this position. Please describe your experience with publishing SOCIAL SCIENCE about natural resource conservation and management in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Please include citations in APA 7th edition for any peer-reviewed scientific literature you have published on topics in conservation social science. If you have a thesis or dissertation on a conservation social science topic, please include it in the citation list.

Citations

EX: Landon, A. C. (2024). Example study. Journal of Example, 1(2), 1-10.