Geographer (GIS Specialist)

The duties may include, but are not limited to: Participates in a multi-disciplinary team and is highly skilled in using GIS to support animal health, animal disease outbreaks, epidemiology investigations, geospatial risk analyses, geospatial modeling, and cartographic or map production. Configures, enhances, and maintains web maps and map applications to meet program requests. Creates and publishes GIS solutions for the collection and presentation of relevant data in support of the agency’s various missions. Uses spatial analysis techniques and tools to collect and analyze data in a geospatial context to ascertain and interpret interrelationships existing among various occurrences or processes to determine its significance or risk to the agency. Makes appropriate recommendations on how best to visually display data, which may originate from existing diverse sources or may be derived through surveillance activities. Works with thematic data creating data layers to support program opera