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Jobs

  • Director of the Center for Ocean Leadership at UCAR, Boulder, Colorado. Apply by February 24
  • The Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences (DMCS) at Rutgers University is seeking to hire a full time Academic Year, Tenure-Track Assistant Professor with an interest in building a research and teaching program. Application review begins in early/mid February
  • NOAA Research's International Activities Office is hiring a full-time Program Analyst at either the ZA-3 (GS-11/12 equivalent) or ZA-4 level (GS-13/14 equivalent). You can apply through USAJobs now through February 2nd. DE Posting: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/701053900MAP Posting: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/701053800
  •  Supervisory Physical Scientist at PMEL. Apply by January 23
  • Marine Biogeochemist Position in Dr. Zhaohui Aleck Wang's lab at the Research Associate II level at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Open until filled
  • Research Technician position at the Tzortziou Bio-Optics Laboratory at the Center for Discovery and Innovation, City College of New York, and Lamont Doherty Earth
    Observatory at Columbia University. Start date Summer - Fall 2023
  • SCOR is seeking a new Executive Director. Apply by February 17
  • Ocean Acidification (OA) Lab Manager at Downeast Institute in Beals, Maine. For a complete job description, or to submit your resume and cover letter, email rholmberg@downeastinstitute.org. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences seeks a Research Associate to manage and conduct research in the trace metal biogeochemistry laboratory. Apply by February 17, 2023.

  • Tenure Track Scientist – Biology, Woods Hole, MA. Open until filled

  • Science Communication Officer based at the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IO PAN) in Sopot, Poland as part of IOCCP and IO PAN's Large-Scale Processes Team of the Department of Marine Chemistry & Biogeochemistry. The position is available initially until May 31, 2024 (15 months), with the possibility of extension depending on the availability of funds and mutually satisfactory employment. The monthly salary will be around PLN 10,000 net, depending on the employee's experience. Other terms of employment (e.g. part-time) can be negotiated on an individual basis. The position is open to EU, EEA and Swiss citizens. The candidate will support the team of scientists in a wide range of duties related to international communication and coordination of elements of the global ocean observation system. The tasks will be performed in close collaboration with many foreign institutions as part of several international projects, e.g. IOCCP, H2020 EuroSea, H2020 ECOTIP, Horizon Europe OceanICU. All tasks are performed in English. We offer very interesting and independent work in a small team and a friendly atmosphere that promotes creativity and personal development of colleagues. Please submit your applications electronically by January 27, 2023. We plan to conduct interviews with selected candidates on February 6-10, 2023. Employment is scheduled to start on March 1, 2023 or earlier. For details on the position and the application process see our website here or the attached full announcement.
  • Assistant or Associate Teaching Professor in Marine Biology - School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences and School of Oceanography, Univ. Washington
  • The University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography is searching for two new tenure track faculty.  This position announcements can be found here.  Assistant Professor of Oceanography - (2 positions). Applications will be reviewed beginning February 15, 2023, and continue until the position is filled.

Post-docs

  • Postdoc opening in Andrew Babbin's lab at MIT on marine snow biogeochemistry and nitrogen cycling. Apply by January 31
  • Postdoctoral fellowship, University of Bergen/Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. Closes February 21
  • Postdoctoral Investigator to join the Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department in Adam Subhas's lab focusing on ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), a promising marine carbon dioxide removal approach. Applications will be reviewed starting February 15
  • Postdoctoral research associate, to be affiliated with the cross campus initiative, UMaine MARINE. Application review begins February 6
  • The High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University is seeking a Postdoctoral fellow or more senior researcher in the area of ocean biophysical modeling to work with Professors Laure Resplandy and Bess Ward.
  • Postdoc position in Oceanography at the Alfred Wegener Institute to investigate vertical exchange processes in the seasonally ice-covered Southern Ocean and perform water mass analysis using physical and biogeochemical ocean tracer data from Argo floats and ship-board observations. Apply online by February 12th, 2023: https://jobs.awi.de/Vacancies/1242/Description/2 .
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Remote Sensing of Aquatic Environments with the Tzortziou Bio-Optics Laboratory at the Center for Discovery and Innovation, City College of New York, and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. Start date Suumer-Fall 2023
  • Postdoctoral scholar to work on development of Monitoring and Verification (MRV) Frameworks for Ocean-based Carbon Dioxide Removal in Canadian Atlantic Waters (Bedford Basin, Canada). Starting data ASAP
  • Postdoctoral investigator in environmental metabolomics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Close date: April 15, 2023, though application review will start February 1, 2023

  • Postdoctoral position available in Nicolas Cassar's lab at Duke, in collaboration with the lab of Susan Lozier at Georgia Tech. Open until filled

  • Postdoc opening in Matt Long's lab at WHOI in biogeochemistry and/or engineering
  • 2-yr postdoc fellowship in bio-physical interactions (microbial ecology and/or carbon cycle) at Brown Univ.
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) seeks an energetic and creative Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) to work on coupled physical-biogeochemical-biological interactions with an interdisciplinary team of scientists, including Drs. Ke Chen in Physical Oceanography, Heather Kim in Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, and Rubao Ji in Biology. Initial consideration begins January 15 and will continue until filled
  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate at Old Dominion University. Full-time position: to participate in a National Science Foundation Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases (EEID) funded project that is focused on understanding controls on eelgrass wasting disease. Consideration will start on December 15 and continue until position is filled
  • The Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University is seeking a postdoctoral scholar in the area of numerical modeling of coastal waters to work with Dr. Raymond Najjar.
  • The Department of Marine Sciences at UConn is now welcoming applications for the 2023 Bucklin Scholars Program supporting post-doctoral diversity in marine sciences and oceanography.  Apply by Jan. 10

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography Postdoctoral Researcher wanted to help lead and coordinate an interdisciplinary research team focused on the topic of Kelp Carbon Cycling and Sequestration Potential. Apply by December 1

  • Omics Positions at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory in Miami. The Northern Gulf Institute at Mississippi State University is hiring three PhD-level scientists based at AOML in Miami, Florida, and hired through MSU in marine omics. These positions are based at NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, Florida. Postdoctoral Associate – Global Plankton Biodiversity Monitoring with Bio-GO-SHIP and MBON. Postdoctoral Associate – The Biological Carbon Pump in the Gulf of Mexico. Research Program Manager – HPC-powered Bioinformatics on NOAA Supercomputers (This one may already be filled.) Open until filled
  • Postdoctoral Associate at Northern Gulf Institute, Miami, Florida
  • Fully funded Postdoc + PhD opportunities are available for those interested in viruses, environmental microbiology/aquatic ecology, and metagenomics at a Microbial Ecology Lab in Jan '23 as part of a new center integrating ecological and computational biology. For more information, check out this post: https://twitter.com/oceanmicrobes/status/1580584884418281472. Ongoing projects to kick off some ideas: https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/microbial-ecology-lab/research. To apply: https://sites.google.com/uncc.edu/microbial-ecology-lab/join
  • Postdoctoral position to study Southern Ocean trace metal -phytoplankton interaction in the  Southern Ocean:The Trace Metal Experimental and Biogeochemistry Group within the Department of EarthSciences, Stellenbosch University, Western Cape, South Africa. Open until filled
  • CIMAS Postdoc in Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement
  • Post-doctoral position on Southern Ocean climate dynamics. Closes when a suitable candidate is found
  • Postdoc opportunity: Southern Ocean Mode and Intermediate water carbon uptake and biogeochemistry. Reviews begin September 1
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Georgia Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) to work on satellite ocean color research. The newly funded phase of the SOCON Program (Sustained Ocean Color Observation with Nanosatellites) seeks to demonstrate the unique capabilities of seahawk ocean color data to study subpixel variability, submesoscale processes, and the overall advantages of CubeSat technology. The postdoc will work under the supervision of Dr. Sara Rivero-Calle (rivero@uga.edu) and collaborate with a team of scientists at UNCW and NASA, among others. Open until filled. Contact Sara to apply.
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist position in machine learning, and atmospheric and climate science at Columbia University
  • Postdoc at Jacobs University
  • The Gulf of Maine Research Institute Postdoctoral Researcher in Climate-Fisheries Modeling
  • Postdoctoral research position available immediately at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey, Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, on trace metal dynamics in the Amundsen Sea. Open until filled
  • Columbia University/NASA-GISS, Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Machine Learning of Earth System Model Data
  • Terrestrial Carbon Cyle Forecasting Postdoc at Boston University
  • Postdoctoral Research Scientist position at LDEO of Columbia University in the Ocean Carbon Group. Open until filled
  • 3 RSMAS Postdocs at University of Miami in Marine Fisheries/Ecological Oceanography
  • Postdoctoral fellow at University of Cape Town with an interest in marine ecosystem processes and system-based approaches to management, and a good understanding of anthropogenic impacts on marine ecosystems. Apply now
  • Proteomics Postdoctoral Scholar: Cross-Kingdom Chemical Signaling in Marine Microorganisms at University of Washington. Starting as soon as chosen applicant is available
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Rhode Island
  • PhD/post-doc positions in Israel available for the project: Ocean Fertilization by Dust – Studying how Marine Microorganisms Nutrients from Dust
  • Postdoctoral fellow in Molecular Ecology, Genomics or Computational Biology/Bioinformatics to join the Marine Climate Change Unit/Ravasi’s Unit at OIST (https://groups.oist.jp/macc) to work on a long-term project that aims to understand the effects of climate stressors (i.e., ocean acidification and warming) on coral reef fishes.
  • Postdoc examining microbial communities, nutrient dynamics, and biogeochemical function in San Francisco Bay estuary at Stanford University (start date ASAP, open until filled)

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