***Earth Lab is hiring 7 new Post-Doctoral Research Scholars*** Accelerating scientific discovery with a view from Space
Earth Lab is a new initiative launched in September 2015 by the University of Colorado-Boulder as part of the campus-wide Grand Challenge effort called “Our Space. Our Future.” (http://www.colorado.edu/grandchallenges/) Earth Lab’s mission is to harness the wave of Earth observations from space and integrate them to answer outstanding questions about the pace and pattern of environmental change, from our backyards to our world. Earth Lab’s initial portfolio of Science Projects builds on existing research strengths at CU-Boulder to better: ●Understand how fire is changing in the western U.S. over the past two decades. (Project Fire) ●Improve risk management and decision-making in land use and hazards mitigation. (Project Risk) ●Determine the sensitivity of permafrost to a warming Arctic. (Project Permafrost) ●Identify how rapid and slow landscape evolution impacts our lives. (Project Erosion) ●Determine what is driving Colorado forest dieback. (Project Forest) ●Examine how data at varying resolutions represents Earth System phenomena. (Project Data Harmonization) ●Understand the fundamental processes driving extreme events and threshold behavior across several systems in Earth Lab’s initial Science Projects, including fire, drought, flooding, erosion, and permafrost contexts. (Project Extremes) See more details here: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/jkbalch/jkbprofile/Earth_Lab.html __________________________________________________________________________ Post-Doctoral Research Scholars: Application DEADLINE EXTENDED to February 18, 2016 Earth Lab seeks 7 Post-Doctoral Research Scholars in the areas described below: Fire, Forest Health, Decision and Risk Analysis, Erosion, Permafrost in a Warming Climate, Data Harmonization, and Extremes and Threshold Behaviors in Coupled Natural and Social Systems. Candidates are responsible for carrying out Earth Lab’s research program. Successful candidates must have content knowledge and data analytics skills relevant to each theme, as well as eagerness to bridge among the themes, and interact with specialists in data analytics, visualization, and informatics in a High Performance Computing environment. Interest in mentoring undergraduate and graduate students is a plus, as Earth Lab is committed to advancing education and developing the Earth Systems data analytics workforce. Interest in interacting with the private sector, especially companies providing environmental sensing data and analysis, from space, aerial, and in situ platforms, is also desirable. Overall Qualifications: •Doctoral degree in natural or social sciences related to the Earth Lab mission themes. •Strong quantitative background. •Experience in, or willingness to learn, appropriate programming and data analytic tools. Ideally the candidates will have experience programming in languages such as R, Python, and Linux and using geospatial analysis software such as QGIS or ArcGIS. •Experience integrating and analyzing large, and/or heterogeneous datasets, including Earth observations from remote-sensing platforms. •Experience working with a High Performance Computing environment is a plus. •Demonstrated publication and grant-writing skills. SEE FULL AD HERE: http://www.colorado.edu/geography/jkbalch/jkbprofile/Earth_Lab_Jobs!.html TO APPLY, please go to the CU Careers website (www.cu.edu/careers). You can access the online application by searching for the posting # 03473, or you can go to this link directly: https://cu.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=03473&lang=en#.VqZeVJjCKRA.gmail For general inquiries regarding Earth Lab jobs, please contact Chelsea Nagy at: rachel.n...@colorado.edu **** Dr. Jennifer K. Balch Director of Earth Lab & Assistant Professor Department of Geography The University of Colorado-Boulder www.colorado.edu/geography/jkbalch<http://colorado.edu/geography/jkbalch>
