1. Faculty Position in Atmospheric Chemistry

The University

Founded in 1991, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a world renowned international research university dedicated to the advancement of learning and scholarship, with special emphasis on postgraduate education and close collaboration with the industry and business. It promotes interdisciplinary studies, dedicated to educating all rounded students to acquire a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking with a global outlook. Within its short history, the University has come to be regarded as a leading player in the international higher education scene. HKUST has been ranked among the top world universities by QS university rankings and Times Higher Education for the past five years. English is the medium of teaching, research and administration.

The Division

The Division of Environment and Sustainability is an interdisciplinary academic unit dedicated to create significant international and local impact on interdisciplinary environmental education and research. Our diverse engaged faculty and staff enjoy a dynamic and intellectually stimulating work environment. The Division strives to foster collaboration among students and faculty members, enabling them to address relevant science, technology and policy issues in environmental sustainability. The three research themes of the Division are as follows:

• Air and water, including interrelations with climate change

• Environmental changes on regional and local scales, and their global interrelations

• Economic and social impacts and solutions for environmental problems

More information about the Division can be found athttp://www.envr.ust.hk.

The Role

A substantiation-track faculty position at Assistant Professor rank is available in the area of volatile organic compound (VOC) measurements and chemistry in the atmosphere. The position will support the development of VOC analytical systems with requirements driven by applications such as the development, operation and data reduction; lead or make major contributions to scientific studies of atmospheric composition, including spatial and temporal variability of VOCs; and collaborate with internal and external investigators employing analysis method and models to derive regional-to-global distributions and properties of atmospheric trace constituents. Appointment at Associate Professor or Professor rank may also be considered for candidates with outstanding academic credentials and international recognition.

Applicants should have a PhD degree in science, engineering, or a related discipline. The appointee is expected to teach courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to develop a vigorous research program in his/her areas of interest. The candidate should have a demonstrated ability to work in interdisciplinary teams involving both social and natural scientists.

Salary is highly competitive and will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. Fringe benefits include annual leave, medical and dental benefits. Housing benefits will also be provided where applicable. Appointment at the Professor rank will be on substantive basis. Initial appointment for Assistant Professor/Associate Professor will normally be on a three-year contract, renewable subject to mutual agreement. A gratuity will be payable upon successful completion of contract.

Application Procedure

Interested candidates are invited to send (i) full curriculum vitae; (ii) a statement of current research interests; (iii) a teaching portfolio with student evaluations, if available; and (iv) contact information of three qualified referees in PDF format to envrjob@ust.hk. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

(Information provided by applicants will be used for recruitment and other employment-related purposes only.)

Details

Employer

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Location

Hong Kong (HK)

Posted

Apr 10, 2018

Closes

May 10, 2018

Discipline

Atmospheric Sciences

Career Level

Experienced

Education Level

PhD

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004932/faculty-position-in-atmospheric-chemistry/

2. College Laboratory Technician – Engineering Science & Physics

CAMPUS SPECIFIC INFORMATION

The Department of Engineering Science and Physics at the College of Staten Island is seeking applicants for a full-time position as a College Laboratory Technician. The department offers four main Bachelor’s degree programs; in Engineering Science (Mechanical or Computer specialization), Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Earth & Environmental Science as well as a Masters in Engineering in Electrical Engineering. For this reason, candidates should have general background experience working in a laboratory setting, and have a general familiarity with both electrical, and mechanical experiments alike. The selected candidate will report to the Department Chair and work alongside other CLT’s and professors to support and maintain ten diverse laboratories, as well as support research labs when needed.

The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a City University of New York (CUNY) senior College organized around two academic divisions and three schools, with over 14,000 students. CSI offers a broad range of academic programs in the liberal arts and sciences, and in several professional areas. The College awards associate's, bachelor's, master's and clinical doctoral degrees, and in collaboration with The CUNY Graduate Center, numerous Ph.D. degrees. CSI's internationally recognized faculty passionately engage in scholarly and artistic activities, and together with a strong professional staff, lead students through transformational learning experiences both inside and outside of the classroom. The College is situated on a 204-acre site, has recently incorporated a residential component, and is currently engaging in capital expansion. It is a hub of intellectual and artistic activity and a community partner and source of economic impact and job creation for the greater Staten Island area.

Duties include but are not limited to:

- Set-up of equipment, demonstrations and computer lab support for lab classes and student projects and research.

- Provides students with instruction on how to use equipment properly, and follow safety procedures

- Coordinates purchase orders, maintenance, repair and use of lab equipment/supplies.

- Maintains and upgrades software in multiple computers in labs and classrooms managed by the Department.

- Coordinates with faculty and full-time CLT’s to schedule classes and optimize lab usage

- Works with faculty members to develop or enhance laboratory experiments

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

High School Diploma with a minimum of four years' related experience. Additional education may be used to meet the experience requirement: an Associate degree may be substituted for two years experience, and a Bachelor's degree may be substituted for four years experience.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Applicants should have experience in:

- Electrical and electronics troubleshooting

- Small-scale prototyping and fabrication

- Instructing small groups

- Diagnostic and equipment repair

- Programming experience in Java/C++/Python

- Technical software such as Multisim, SPICE, Matlab, LabView, AutoCAD

Details

Employer

CUNY College of Staten Island

Location

Staten Island, New York

Posted

Apr 05, 2018

Closes

May 05, 2018

Ref

18432

Discipline

Solid Earth Geophysics

Career Level

Early Career (up to 10 years past degree)

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004927/college-laboratory-technician-engineering-science-and-physics-/

3. Development of a New Global Atmospheric Model from 0-150 km for High-Altitude Weather Prediction

The Space Science Division of the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC seeks a highly motivated individual to perform scientific research & development (R&D) of a state-of-the-art global numerical model of the atmosphere extending from the ground to 150 km altitude, which can provide the foundation of a future high-altitude operational numerical weather prediction (NWP) capability. The system will be based around an emerging Navy dynamical core (NEPTUNE: Navy Environmental Prediction System Utilizing the NUMA Core) solving the deep-atmosphere nonhydrostatic equations on the sphere using spectral element (SE) techniques. This work supports NRL’s broadly-based long-term R&D objectives of providing focused state-of-the-art environmental situational awareness for the globally deployed Navy.

Candidates should have a masters or Ph. D. in atmospheric science, computational fluid dynamics, physics, or a related discipline that demonstrates strong theoretical grounding in the dynamics and/or physics of the atmosphere. Candidates will require strong programming skills in working with complex Fortran codes that use up to 1 million processors on massively parallel high-performance computers, and an ability and willingness to work within large team environments distributed across several geographically displaced NRL research centers (including periodic work-related travel).

Additional knowledge, experience or interests in any of the following areas are advantageous, but not formally required, for this position:

• Interests in the deep atmosphere (0-150 km altitude), with an emphasis on those dynamical and physical processes affecting evolution on time scales in the 0-5 day range.

• R&D experience with state-of-the-art atmospheric dynamical cores (e.g., SE/Galerkin methods, implicit/explicit time integrators, structured/unstructured/adaptive grids, static mesh refinement, and species transport algorithms).

• R&D experience developing fast physics parameterizations for the stratosphere, mesosphere and thermosphere. Relevant examples include (but are not restricted to): “scale-aware”, “gray-zone” and stochastic parameterizations; radiative/chemical heating and cooling rates; diffusive separation of thermospheric species, and; drag effects of gravity waves, viscosity and ion-neutral coupling.

• Programming credentials in Fortran, C/C++, python, and MPI/OpenMP.

  Details：

  Employer

  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

  Location

  Washington D.C.

  Salary

  Salary commensurate with experience and skills.

  Posted

  Apr 04, 2018

  Closes

  May 04, 2018

  Discipline

  Atmospheric Sciences,Space Physics

  Career Level

  Researcher

  Education Level

  Masters

  Job Type

  Full-time

  Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004926/development-of-a-new-global-atmospheric-model-from-0-150-km-for-high-altitude-weather-prediction/?LinkSource=PremiumListing

4.NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), Application Deadline July 1, 2018

Details:

UPDATED! Annual stipends start at $60,000, with supplements for high cost-of-living areas and certain degree fields

UPDATED! Annual travel budget of $10,000

Relocation allowance

Financial supplement for health insurance purchased through the program

Appointments renewable for up to three years

Approximately 90 Fellowships awarded annually

Available Fields of Study:

Aeronautics, Aeronautical or Other Engineering

Astrobiology

Astrophysics

Biological Sciences

Cosmochemistry

Earth Science

Heliophysics Science

Interdisciplinary/Other

Planetary Science

Technology Development

Available NASA Centers:

Ames Research Center

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Glenn Research Center

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

Goddard Space Flight Center

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Langley Research Center

Marshall Space Flight Center

NASA Astrobiology Program

NASA HQ

Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute

Stennis Space Center

Wallops Flight Facility

NOTE: Not all centers participate in every application round... please refer to the website for current opportunity locations

Eligibility:

US citizens, Lawful Permanent Residents and foreign nationals eligible for a J-1 visa as a Research Scholar

Recent and Senior-Level PhD recipients

Details:

Employer

Universities Space Research Association

Location

United States

Posted

Apr 04, 2018

Closes

Jul 04, 2018

Discipline

Interdisciplinary/Other

Career Level

Postdoctoral

Education Level

PhD

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004924/nasa-postdoctoral-program-npp-application-deadline-july-1-2018/?LinkSource=PremiumListing

5. Computational Geoscientist

Purpose of position

The Computational Geoscientist will provide technical leadership and expertise to develop, optimize, and deploy software and workflows that enable new Earth and planetary science research utilizing high performance computing, visualization, and big data approaches.

Essential functions

The candidate is expected to work with a number of computationally oriented research scientists and their graduate students at UTIG. She/he is to lead and assist in tasks such as adaptation of existing codes, algorithm and software development for multi-scale, multi-physics problems, implementation and deployment of software, optimization of software for high-performance, massively parallel computing platforms, optimization of workflows including high throughput data processing, construction of adjoint models, and other computational and data science tasks. The successful candidate will have the scientific and interpersonal skills to interface with diverse and heterogeneous teams of scientists as well as to work independently. She/he has to be self-motivated and is encouraged to bring in their personal scientific interests and expertise into collaborative projects.

Qualifications

We seek an individual with a Ph.D. in the Earth sciences, computational sciences, applied math, engineering, physics, or a related field; three years' experience working in a computational research position; proficiency in at least one common programming language, such as scientific Python, C/C++, or F90; ability to work independently under established deadlines and as part of a team; strong oral presentation and interpersonal communications skills; ability to travel to partner and collaborator institutions, relevant conferences, etc. Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

The following qualifications are also desired: Peer-reviewed publications; five or more years working at computational research positions in academic institutions or government laboratories; demonstrated research experience in the Earth and planetary sciences (e.g., geodynamics, climate dynamics, seismology and exploration geophysics, or dynamo studies); demonstrated success in preparing proposals in competitive funding environments; and proficiency in more than one programming language.

Details:

Employer

University of Texas Institute for Geophysics

Location

Austin, Texas

Posted

Apr 10, 2018

Closes

Jun 05, 2018

Discipline

Atmospheric Sciences,Cryosphere Sciences,Earth and Space Science Informatics,Ocean Science,Planetary Sciences,Solid Earth Geophysics,Tectonophysics

Career Level

Experienced

Education Level

PhD

Job Type

Full-time

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004929/computational-geoscientist/

6. Professor of Hydrology 1.0 FTE (38 hours p/w)

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education offers graduate education in Delft, The Netherlands, and carries out research and capacity building projects all over the world. The mission of IHE Delft is to contribute to the education and training of professionals and to build the capacity of sector organizations, knowledge centres and other institutions active in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure in developing countries and countries in transition.

IHE Delft has a permanent staff of 180, of which 120 are scientific staff, while about 250 guest-lecturers from academia and industry contribute to the educational programme. Each year 750 participants (incl. about 200 new MSc students per year) from all over the world attend the various regular and short courses at IHE Delft. The institute has an international staff & student community with English as working language.

Details:

Employer

IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Location

Delft

Posted

Apr 10, 2018

Closes

May 10, 2018

Ref

18-WSE-01

Discipline

Atmospheric Sciences,Biogeosciences,Hydrology

Career Level

Experienced

Education Level

PhD

Job Type

Full-time

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004935/professor-of-hydrology-1-0-fte-38-hours-p-w-/

7. Director and Professor - the Water Institute at UNC (Chapel Hill)

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), along with its Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering (ESE) and Gillings School of Global Public Health, seek an innovative and entrepreneurial leader to serve as the next Director of the UNC Water Institute (http://waterinstitute.unc.edu). The Water Institute (WI) has a global mission to develop public health solutions and is world renowned for its research, collaborative projects and signature event, the annual Water and Health Conference (http://waterinstitute.unc.edu/conferences/waterandhealth2017/).

The successful candidate will possess a doctoral degree in a water-related field and experience in both research and practice. The candidate could have experience in either the academic or non-academic sectors, but will have a record of achievement consistent with appointment at the Full or Associate Professor level. Preference will be given to candidates whose work has had a significant impact on policy, programmatic and professional practice. The success of the WI will be demonstrated by generation of new knowledge and influence on practice/policy. Applicants with expertise in areas related to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH), climate change and resilience, water quality, next-generation water technologies, water resources, and microbiology, among others, will receive full consideration.

Details:

Employer

UNC Chapel Hill

Location

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Posted

Apr 10, 2018

Closes

May 10, 2018

Discipline

Global Environmental Change,Hydrology,Interdisciplinary/Other,Social Sciences

Career Level

Experienced

Education Level

PhD

Job Type

Full-time

Link:https://findajob.agu.org/job/8004934/director-and-professor-the-water-institute-at-unc-chapel-hill-/