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Director, Imaging Technology Lab (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

WHOI is establishing an Imaging Technology Laboratory (ITL) & seeks a senior technical leader to lead the initiative. The primary goal of the ITL is to create a center of excellence to serve the technical imaging needs of WHOI & broader oceanographic community. A secondary goal of the ITL is to support Institutional outreach & communications efforts.

Woods Hole, Massachusetts - United States

More info on the webpage: https://careers-whoi.icims.com/jobs/1756/director%2c-imaging-technology-laboratory/job?hub=8

"ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

  • Leverage understanding of current and future state-of-the-art, emerging, and cutting-edge imaging technologies and their potential application to oceanography.
  • Apply and maintain broad knowledge of a variety of technologies applicable to imaging such as software, hardware, artificial intelligence, machine learning, cameras, lighting, among others.
  • Work collaboratively with scientists and engineers to create, develop, design, construct, and advance imaging solutions for use in the field and laboratory.
  • Provide engineering and system integration capabilities to scientists, engineers, and operations that drive successful new imaging solutions.
  • In conjunction with WHOI Communications, support imaging data management and archiving solutions, including software, hardware, and processes.
  • Collaborate with WHOI Communications to support marketing and outreach efforts including coordinating sources of content, production, training, and access to archives.
  • Evaluates, organizes, and coordinates major technical efforts as a direct requirement of a scientific project and for key technological developments for future investigations.
  • Participates at the highest Institution level for the development of overall scientific strategies, the identification of areas for technological emphasis, and the formulation of experimental techniques.
  • Speaks for and represents the Institution's interests in high-level planning activities concerned with technological developments, externally to the Institution.
  • Operates as a laboratory head, unit head, or independent researcher, with full supervisory and management responsibilities in an entrepreneurial setting.
  • Through research endeavors and the preparation of research results and reports, contributes patentable inventions, important research techniques, and/or engineering designs that significantly impact the ways different aspects of ocean science are studied."