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Today's Topics:
1. PhD studentship (Richard Scott)
2. Met Office Job Vacancy - Defence Outcomes Scientist
(Giblin, Laura)
3. Post Doctoral Research Fellowship - Monash University,
Australia (Anna Haley)
4. Open Position in Earth Sciences Land Surface Processes Remote
Sensing/Climatology/Hydrology at NASA Marshall Space Flight
Center (USA) (Roger Brugge)
5. PhD Position at the Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
(Roger Brugge)
6. 2 Post-Doc Positions at the University of Oxford
Environmental Change Institute (UK) (Roger Brugge)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:51:29 +0100 (BST)
From: Richard Scott <rks@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PhD studentship
To: met-jobs@lists.reading.ac.uk
Cc: Chuong Van Tran <chuong@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>, Magda Carr
<magda@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>, David Dritschel <dgd@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>
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School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews
The School of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews invites
applications for an EPRSC funded PhD studentship in the Vortex
Dynamics Research Group. Research projects are available across a
wide range of areas of geophysical fluid dynamics, including, but not
limited to the following:
1. Three dimensional vortex dynamics: the stability and interactions
of coherent vortices in a Boussinesq fluid; the spontaneous generation
of unbalanced flows from unsteady balanced flows.
2. Geostrophic turbulence: the formation and maintenance of zonal jets
in atmospheres and oceans and their interaction with waves and eddies;
mixing properties and zonal jets as transport barriers.
3. Large-scale dynamics of the Earth's atmosphere and climate:
coupling processes between the stratosphere and troposphere, and
between tropical and midlatitudes; atmospheric transport and mixing.
4. Internal solitary waves in the Ocean: numerical and experimental
modelling of (i) re-suspension events associated with internal
solitary waves and (ii) the interaction between surface waves and
internal waves.
5. Fundamentals of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence:
theory of energy transfer, dissipation, and solution regularity;
direct numerical simulation of turbulent cascades in two and three
dimensions.
6. Numerical methods in geophysical fluid dynamics.
Potential funding is available immediately to exceptional candidates
via an UK EPSRC doctoral training grant on a first come, first served
basis, with an anticipated start date prior to January 2014.
Applications are also invited on an ongoing basis for PhD positions
anticipated to begin in September 2014.
Informal enquiries are welcome to David Dritschel (dgd@mcs.st-and.ac.uk)
or Richard Scott (rks@mcs.st-and.ac.uk). Formal applications should
be made to the University of St Andrews via the electronic application
form available at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/
Further information about the Vortex Dynamics Research Group is
available at http://www-vortex.mcs.st-and.ac.uk.
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 15:14:04 +0000
From: "Giblin, Laura" <laura.giblin@metoffice.gov.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Met Office Job Vacancy - Defence Outcomes
Scientist
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Hi
Please can you advertise the following for us?
Thanks
Laura
Defence Outcomes Scientist
Salary: For Foundation Scientist starting ?21,250 and for exceptional candidates up to ?24,250 or for Scientist starting ?25,500 and for exceptional candidates up to ?29,100 + competitive benefits, including Civil Service Pension
Generic role: Foundation Scientist or Scientist
Profession: Science and Engineering
Three-year fixed-term. Full time (Part time considered) at Met Office, Exeter
Opening date for applications: 11 September 2013, 15:00
Closing date for applications: 9 October 2013
More information: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/jobs/current-vacancies/002850
Background information
The job is within the Defence Outcomes Team, part of Applied Science.
The purpose of the Applied Science is to:
? Provide consultancy to meet the needs of clients for expert advice on the impacts of weather and climate on policy, business and the environment.
? Conduct research and develop tools and applications to enable the operational provision of services to customers to help them manage the impact of weather on their business, particularly in the fields of aviation, defence, airborne spread of animal disease, air quality and atmospheric contaminant release.
? Respond to ad-hoc and routine requests from clients for UK and foreign climate data and analysis.
Within Applied Science, Defence Outcomes works to achieve an advantage for the UK armed forces through intelligent exploitation of environmental information. It provides both consultancy and tools to deliver impact advice utilising Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) in a way that is meaningful to the soldier, pilot or other decision maker. The team works closely with many areas of the Met Office, including scientific, business, forecasting and IT experts, and has frequent contact with many of the military customers. In particular, the job involves:
? Conducting essential research and evaluation work that underpins future development of NWP capability and NWP impact products.
? Development of NWP impact products, ensuring they meet appropriate scientific and technical standards whilst meeting the customer's expectation.
? Direct contact with software developers, business development colleagues, customers and other stakeholders, working together to ensure the delivery of effective solutions.
? Providing scientific support for users of NWP impact products.
? Undertaking defence related meteorological consultancy work.
Specific job purpose
To provide and to improve the provision of scientific advice to defence customers through the application of scientific research to Numerical Weather Prediction impact products and consultancy services.
Specific job responsibilities
? Undertake research and development to deliver agreed outputs on time and in full that significantly improve Met Office systems, products or advice for the benefit of defence customers.
? Provide advice to management on the scientific direction and planning of work packages within your area of expertise in order to ensure a coherent, long-term direction for the work that meets customer needs.
? Maintain and promote the Met Office's scientific capability, reputation and integrity by the presentation, publication and documentation of work internally and externally.
? Provide mentoring and scientific and technical advice within your area of expertise to support to other team members in order to improve the effectiveness of the team.
? Provide scientific support to users of operational defence products.
? Ensure that existing products are maintained in line with expected improvements in the Met Office's Numerical Weather Prediction capability.
Qualifications, skills and abilities required
Essential
? An honours degree (2:2 or above or equivalent) in a scientific or related discipline.
? An ability to work flexibly on a number of different projects at any given time, whilst working to strict deadlines (often at short notice).
? An ability to apply, with limited supervision, quality scientific analysis and mathematical skills to a research problem.
? An ability to provide significant contributions to innovative and realistic solutions for colleagues or customers.
? Through collaboration and consultation, an ability to establish and maintain valuable relationships with colleagues and customers, understanding and responding to their needs.
? Ability to communicate well, both orally and in writing, with both customers and internal colleagues across both science and business areas.
? Proficiency in programming in one or more high-level computing languages for data analysis or for providing solutions to colleagues or customers.
? Proficient use of a variety of software applications for the delivery of solutions to colleagues or customers.
Desirable
? An understanding of the requirements of defence customers.
? Expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Exploitation of risk-based or probabilistic products; Surface exchange or atmospheric boundary-layer meteorology; radiative transfer; forecasting.
? UK nationality.
Additional supplementary information
You will work on several projects for a variety of different customers, which, depending on your skills may include the development of risk-based advice for defence customers or the development of surface temperature models for various man-made objects. You will need to be agile and versatile with your work, responding to changing demands and being willing to develop and apply your scientific expertise to new areas of research, development and delivery. You will have the opportunity for travel to workshops, conferences and scientific trials and publication of research work in peer-reviewed journals is strongly encouraged. As a customer face of science, you will also have the opportunity, supported by business-facing colleagues, for discussions directly with Met Office customers. Management will be supportive of post-holders who wish to increase their security clearance level through the Developed Vetting process.
Due to the nature of the work involved, it is essential that the successful candidate has UK nationality or nationality of an EU country or nationality of one of the following countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA.
Laura Giblin HR Associate
Met Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 886031
Email: laura.giblin@metoffice.gov.uk Website: www.metoffice.gov.uk<http://www.metoffice.gov.uk>
See our guide to climate change at http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide/
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:26:58 +1000
From: Anna Haley <anna.haley@monash.edu>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Post Doctoral Research Fellowship - Monash
University, Australia
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Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Monash University seeks to appoint a fixed-term full-time Research
Fellow to work on an ARC-funded project aimed at developing methods to
identify weather features in climate models and applying these methods
in the evaluation of the models.
The position will be hosted by the Monash Weather and Climate Group in
the School of Mathematical Sciences under the supervision of Professors
Christian Jakob and Michael Reeder. Monash Weather and Climate is a
multi-disciplinary research group formed jointly by the School of
Mathematical Sciences and the School of Geography and Environmental
Science.
Applications are online and must address the selection criteria.
<http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=515747/>
Enquiries to Professor Michael Reeder, +61 3 9905 4464 or
Michael.Reeder@monash.edu
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:16:15 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Open Position in Earth Sciences Land Surface
Processes Remote Sensing/Climatology/Hydrology at NASA Marshall Space
Flight Center (USA)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
Colleagues,
The NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama is
announcing a job opening for a position as an Earth Sciences Remote
Sensing in Land Surface Processes. U.S. citizenship is required. This
job announcement will be posted on <https://www.usajobs.gov/> on
Thursday, 29 August 2013 and will be open until Monday, 16 September 2013.
You are welcome to redistribute this announcement to your colleagues. I
apologize for duplicate emails you may receive due to cross-postings in
multiple email lists. However, I am trying to reach a broad community in
order to attract the most qualified candidates.
Dale Quattrochi
ZP11/Earth Science Office
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL 35812
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:17:18 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PhD Position at the Technical University of
Denmark (Denmark)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
The Wind Energy Department of the Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
is seeking a PhD student to develop coupling between the atmospheric
model WRF and the spectral wave model MIKE 21 SW, for the purpose of
improving the simulation of extreme wind and wave conditions. One of
the objectives of the project is to produce updated extreme wind and
wave climatologies for the North Sea.
Please find more details in the following link:
<http://www.dtu.dk/Job/7adf7c77-bad1-489c-b984-b5c7abf6a61d.aspx/>
Applications are not accepted via email, but only via the DTU web site
those address is given above. Questions regarding the position may be
directed to Xiaoli Lars?n (<xgal@dtu.dk>).
Cheers,
Andrea N. Hahmann
DTU Wind Energy
Ris? Campus, Roskilde, Denmark
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 08:18:32 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] 2 Post-Doc Positions at the University of Oxford
Environmental Change Institute (UK)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
The Environmental Change Institute in the University of Oxford is
seeking to appoint two Post-Doctoral researchers to work in the fields of:
Decision Analysis for Natural Hazards:
<https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=109433>
Climate Scenarios and Attribution for Natural Hazards Assessment:
<https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=109434>
The closing date for applications is 18 September 2013. Informal
enquiries can be directed to Prof Jim Hall <jim.hall@eci.ox.ac.uk>
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