SAU Data Scientist

AAPS Salaried
- Statistical Analysis, Level A

Staff
- Non Union

M&P - AAPS

SAU Data Scientist

Research 2 | Pauly | Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries | Faculty of Science

$6,631.67 - $9,533.25 CAD Monthly

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October 11, 2026

Note:

Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the Posting End Date.

August 31, 2027

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

The Sea Around Us is a research initiative, which, since its inception in 1994, has made available an online searchable Atlas of reconstructed marine capture fisheries catches from 1950 to the present of all maritime countries of the world via its website aroundus.org. This global catch database permits the testing of fisheries-related global hypotheses applied to marine conservation concerns and has served as the underlying database for many articles published by the Sea Around Us members and their collaborators in peer‑reviewed journals.

This position is responsible for the development of machine learning based tools for fisheries catch analysis, redesigning existing data-processing workflows, and building data visualization tools and interfaces for the Sea Around Us database and website.

This position supports the Sea Around Us in its continued effort to provide robust and reliable fisheries datasets for the public through modernizing the computational and analytical methodologies of the Sea Around Us system.

The Data Scientist is a member of the core Sea Around Us team. This position reports directly to the Research Unit Manager, Dr Maria L.D. Palomares, and as required to the Principal Investigator, Dr. Daniel Pauly.

• Consult closely with the Principal Investigator (PI) and Research Unit Manager to define research objectives, determine study design parameters, and select appropriate statistical methodologies.
• Evaluate and select statistical programs, R/Python packages, and machine-learning frameworks to ensure alignment with research objectives and study questions.
• Develop, implement, and maintain analytical models across multiple concurrent Sea Around Us research projects.
• Design and develop standardized protocols for incorporating underrepresented and small‑scale fisheries data.
• Translate and interpret statistical results, enabling researchers and stakeholders to make informed, data‑driven decisions.
• Compile, validate, and integrate new datasets (subsistence fisheries, gender‑disaggregated data, Indigenous fisheries).
• Create validation workflows to test data integrity and document analytical methodologies to ensure transparency and reproducibility across the team.

• Collaborate with subject expert and software engineering team to create scalable machine learning based models for fisheries analysis.
• Research and develop scalable end‑to‑end data science capabilities covering the full lifecycle of model creation. From data…