Jobs and Postdocs

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Postdocs

  • Friday Harbor Labs recently opened a search for a new FHL Postdoctoral Fellow. Specifically they are looking for someone to establish an active research program in Ocean Observatories, Ocean Acidification, or both. Applications due on May 15, 2018.
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate position in Remote Sensing of Aquatic Environments is currently available at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University and Maria Tzortziou’s Land Ocean Atmosphere Interactions Lab at the City University of New York Review begins immediately, start date June 2018

  • Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology application due June 1

  • 2-year postdoc in marine environment forecasting at the Modelling for Aquatic Systems research group (MAST) of the University of Liège, Belgium Applications reviewed as received, apply as early as possible closed when filled.
  • Post-doc position in Environmental Radioisotope Geochemistry lab at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The candidate will be involved in an interdisciplinary study of the biological pump and transport processes in the warm ultra-oligotrophic eastern Mediterranean Sea, which has been recently subjected to increasing anthropogenic pressure, such as extensive drilling for oil and gas and coastal water desalination.The work will focus on a recently-deployed deep water observatory (‘DeepLev’), accompanied by monthly and seasonal cruises across the Levantine basin. The research will involve geochemical, microbiological and physical aspects. Apply for the Mortimer Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program by June 1. For more details, please contact Prof. Yishai Weinstein
  • Postdoctoral fellowship: “Defining the evolvable phenotype landscape for marine phytoplankton” with Martina Doblin (University of Technology Sydney). A Moore Foundation project, pursued in collaboration with the Universities of Edinburgh (UK) and Southern California (USA), starting in July 2018.

NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) is seeking postdoctoral scientists in Oceanography to work on projects related to the oceans role in climate, ocean-climate interactions, heat and carbon uptake, and ocean biogeochemistry.
1) Ocean Modeling and Analysis, Advisors: Anastasia Romanou and Gavin A. Schmidt
2) Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling, Advisors: Anastasia Romanou, Gavin Schmidt and Tim Hall
The fellowships are designed to help advance NASA’s climate modeling efforts by combining NASA observations with models and utilizing novel techniques in numerical analysis as well as data science. Successful candidates will be expected to work with the NASA-GISS climate model, NASA observations and in collaboration with scientists at NASA-GISS. Candidates’ background may be in Physical and/or Biogeochemical Oceanography, Earth Science, Physics, Mathematics or Computer Science. NASA Postdoctoral Program application deadlines are March 1st, July 1st and November 1st each year. Eligible candidates within five years of receiving their PhD may apply as Postdoctoral Fellows and those with more than five years after their PhD may apply as a Senior Fellows.

Open until filled

  • Three year postdoc “Establishing the traceability of pH measurements for long-term carbon system monitoring from coastal waters to open ocean” with Wei Jun Cai, Regina Easley, and Jason Waters at U. Delaware
  • Postdoctoral Scientist Positions in Deep Learning for Climate Model Parameterization – open until filled
    Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science each seek an outstanding candidate for a new initiative between Columbia University and the University of California, Irvine. This venture is aimed at launching a major effort to apply deep learning techniques to improve sub-grid physical parameterizations in climate models. The selected Postdoctoral Research Scientists are crucial to the success of this initiative that allows newly minted PhD researchers to benefit from multiple perspectives and specialties. Each successful candidate will preferably combine expertise in fundamental geophysical fluid dynamics and numerical modeling with new statistical inference methods. Each of the two positions will have a distinct focus, but the Postdoctoral Research Scientists will be expected to work collaboratively. The Postdoctoral Research Scientist with atmospheric science and the Postdoctoral Research Scientist with physical oceanography will use their differing, yet connected research fields to further the findings of deep learning techniques to improve sub-grid physical parameterizations in climate models. Both teams will interact remotely frequently to exploit commonalities in methodology.

  • Postdoc at MBARI with Dr. Andrea Fassbender to improve understanding of the biological carbon pump and its predictability from remote sensing
  • QuEST program at UVM postdoctoral opportunity – unique postdoc position that will involve teaching (1 course/year), research, and mentoring associated with the NSF-funded Quantitative & Evolutionary STEM Traineeship (QuEST), a PhD program. The ideal candidate will (1) have a combination of experience and passion for teaching, (2) do research that includes modeling and/or computational biology from an evolutionary/ecological perspective, and (3) work with Melissa Pespeni or a combination of faculty on the QuEST leadership team or participating faculty.  The specific research is open for discussion! Review begins end of March, open until filled
  • University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Centennial Postdoctoral Initiative, contact Robert Rember or Ana Aguilar-Islas for more information
  • 2 year postdoc – Exploring methylmercury compound specific stable isotope analysis to trace its origin and fate in marine ecosystems (Toulouse, France)
  • Postdoctoral Position in Atmosphere and Climate Dynamics, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
  • Postdoc at Applied Physics Laboratory-University of Washington in investigating (sub)mesoscale dynamics using a combination of in situ and satellite observations with a focus on (sub)mesoscale variability in open ocean salinity and ocean color. Open until filled
  • Postdoc Research Associate for Coastal Ocean Modeling at Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM Applications reviewed as received
  • Postdoc ecosystem modeling and fisheries management in the Gulf of Mexico at RSMAS
  • Three postdoc positions with Dr. Eun Young Kwon – integrating numerical modeling and field observations to improve the understanding and prediction of marine biogeochemical cycles on regional and global scales under changing climates – at IBS Center for Climate Physics (Busan, South Korea) Updated 3/23/18
  • Postdoc in SST biases in coupled climate models at RSMAS
  • Research Fellow (post-doctoral) in Oceanography within the Asian School of the Environment (ASE)
  • NOAA AMOL Postdoc Inter-Ocean Exchanges and Regional Sinks of Heat, Salt, and Carbon
  • Two-year ecosystem services postdoc at the First Institute of Oceanography, SOA (Qingdao, China)
  • NASA JPL Postdoc Estimating and Studying the Global Ocean Ecology and Carbon Cycle Using Observations and Numerical Models

 

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