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Today's Topics:
1. Met Office Vacancy - Environmental prediction Scientific
Software Engineer (Missen, Hannah)
2. IC3, Barcelona | Ocean Modeler at the Climate Forecasting
Unit (Human Resources)
3. IC3, Barcelona | Post Doctoral Researcher in Mathematical
Modelling of Infectious Diseases (Human Resources)
4. One year post-doc for online mineral dust modeling with
WRF-CHIMERE (MENUT Laurent)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 08:10:14 +0000
From: "Missen, Hannah" <hannah.missen@metoffice.gov.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Met Office Vacancy - Environmental prediction
Scientific Software Engineer
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Hi,
Please can you advertise the following for us?
Thanks,
Hannah
Environmental Prediction Scientific Software Engineer
http://careers.metoffice.gov.uk/current-vacancies
Location
Exeter HQ
Contract type
Permanent
Salary range
21675.00 - 29100.00 GBP per Year
Opening date
29-09-2014
Closing date
20-10-2014
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Salary Information
?21,675 and for exceptional candidates up to ?29,100 + competitive benefits and Civil Service pension
Technology and Science at the Met Office
The Met Office is a world-leading weather and climate service and we're continuously developing innovative ways to enhance and optimise our capabilities. Technology and science go hand-in-hand to drive our success. Your technical skills, combined with your scientific understanding, can help us develop the cutting edge models and systems that will deliver reliable and timely weather and climate information to our customers. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a world-class organisation and contribute to developing and improving the software that supports the science behind everything we do.
Challenging, technically-stretching work
Now is a particularly exciting time to join us as a scientific software engineer. We work with our scientists to develop and use models of the atmosphere, land and oceans, weather and Right now, and over the coming months and years, we've an array of complex and technically-stretching projects to complete - projects that will see you collaborate and work closely with our world-leading scientists.
For example, we're constructing a prototype Environmental Prediction system to improve our UK weather, hydrology and ocean forecasting. We're completing the migration of our models to the Rose system which manages modelling system workflow on the supercomputer. We're developing the replacement for the Met Office Unified Model (UM), a task that encompasses system architecture design, assessment of new tools and techniques, and analysis of code performance on the next generation of supercomputers, to solve a complex scientific requirement. And we're building the next-generation global Earth System Model - a project that will enhance our climate change projection capability. Of course, these are just a few examples of the type of work you can expect here.
Collaboration is key to success at the Met Office. As well as working with other teams at the Met Office many of our tasks involve working with the UK academic community and with international partners.
We are looking for a Scientific Software Engineer to join us at one of two levels, depending on experience: Foundation Scientific Software Engineer or Scientific Software Engineer (SSE)
The person
First and foremost, you thrive on intellectually-demanding, technically-challenging work. You're an analytical problem-solver. With a creative and enquiring mind, you will always find a solution. You are not afraid to challenge the norm.
Your skills and experience will determine the level at which you join us.
You'll need to have the following essential skills, abilities and qualifications to be considered for the role:
1. Bachelor's degree or equivalent, at level 2.2 or above, in a physical science, mathematics or computing subject or equivalent experience.
2. Experience of developing or maintaining software, in a high-level language such as Fortran or C, showing an aptitude to understand complex applications and to learn to adapt them.
To be considered for Scientific Software Engineer (SSE):
Experience of developing or maintaining complex modelling software in a high-level language such as Fortran or C, with limited supervision, demonstrating breadth and depth of understanding.
3. Experience of developing code on Unix or Linux systems.
To be considered for SSE:
Demonstrates the ability to work with the platforms, tools and languages required in the post. A good grounding in Fortran and/or C/C++ and an understanding of scripting languages coupled with experience of developing code within a Unix and/or Linux operating system environment.
4. To be considered for SSE:
Experience of developing or maintaining scientific codes within a formal configuration management process.
5. The drive to be able to see complex technical tasks through, from initial analysis to a robust implementation in an operational environment.
6. Ability to work in a united way with scientists and technical staff both within the team and outside of the immediate team to deliver code improvements.
7. An understanding of relevant scientific areas required to allow the applicant to communicate effectively with scientists and to understand scientific requirements of technical work.
If you've any of the following desirable criteria, that's even better:
1. Experience of using High Performance Computers to run scientific applications
2. Experience of developing code for use on High Performance Computers using MPI or OpenMP
3. Experience with one or more dynamic language and/or shell script: Python, Perl, Bash etc.
What we can offer you
You will be challenged, fascinated and rewarded as you work on demanding and cutting-edge scientific problems, and provide technical solutions that make a valuable contribution to our weather and climate capabilities. We will invest in your development to help you grow with the Met Office. We can offer you a competitive pension, opportunities for flexible working, performance-related pay schemes, some great benefits as well as 25 days' holiday, which increases to 30 days' holiday after 5 years. Based in our award-winning Exeter headquarters, you will have world-class facilities all around you.
Kind regards
Hannah Missen HR Assistant
Met Office Fitzroy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 886401 Email: HRrecruitment@metoffice.gov.uk
Linked in: uk.linkedin.com/in/hannahmissen
Website: www.metoffice.gov.uk
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:29:31 +0200
From: Human Resources <jobs@ic3.cat>
Subject: [Met-jobs] IC3, Barcelona | Ocean Modeler at the Climate
Forecasting Unit
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Ocean Modeler at the Climate Forecasting Unit
Location
IC3 Headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
General description and work environment
The Institut Catal? de Ci?ncies del Clima (IC3) is a climate research
institute created in 2008 by the Government of Catalonia and the
University of Barcelona, aiming at understanding climate variability and
change both global and regional scales to improve both predictions and
projections, the dynamics and theory underlying those changes and the
impact on society. Linked to these goals, IC3 works on understanding and
simulating how global change modulates variability and change in society
ecosystems to provide better climate services.
IC3?s mandate is to become a leading international centre for climate
research in Europe, with a regional focus on the Mediterranean area. IC3
aims to perform quality research on basic and applied climate sciences,
while informing society and stakeholders on future climate risks.
Working languages are English, Catalan and Spanish.
In tune with IC3's objectives, a growing interest in the implications of
climate variability and change from a season to a few decades ahead is
occurring. Reliable climate information is critical to ensure that
adaptation measures to climate variability and change are efficient. The
Climate Forecasting Unit (CFU), led by the ICREA research professor F.J.
Doblas-Reyes, undertakes research on the development and assessment of
dynamical and statistical methods for the prediction of global and
regional climate on time scales ranging from one month to one decade.
More information about the CFU activities is available from the
following links: www.ic3.catand http://ic3.cat/wikicfu/index.php/Main_Page
Main duties
The successful applicant will work on the generation of ocean initial
conditions for seasonal-to-decadal ensemble climate predictions with the
dynamical global climate model used by the CFU, EC-Earth, using data
from a comprehensive set of high-resolution global reanalysis. The
generation of more balanced initial states that reduce or even prevent
the initial shock will be an important aspect of the work. The impact of
the initial conditions will be assessed with the tools already developed
by the CFU members and by implementing new ocean diagnostics to be
included in these tools. Process-based analyses of the main sources of
predictability related to the ocean component as well as new ways to
infer information on model deficiencies across time scales are part of
the tasks. The applicant will be involved in collaborative work with
other partners within the EC-Earth consortium. Outstanding opportunities
exist for establishing links with other international climate research
institutions and, if interested, to participate in the tutoring and
monitoring of early-career scientists.
Desired skills / Qualifications
ApplicantsmusthaveaPhD in physical oceanography, applied mathematics or
in a related
discipline.Idealcandidateswillhaveseveralofthefollowingattributes:
- A demonstrated ability to develop experimental set ups that address
specific climate modeling problems and in manipulating either ocean or
climate model codes.
- Extended knowledge of Fortran and bash, while experience with R, cdo,
nco and Python will be highly valued.
- Experience in handling large databases, and a minimum knowledge of
NetCDF encoding.
- Proven ability to prepare and submit manuscripts to high-impact,
peer-review journals.
- Interest and capacity in participating in the writing in and, when
possible, leading the preparation of research and computing proposals.
- Fluency in spoken and written English, while fluency in other European
languages will be also valued.
This position implies becoming part of dynamic, multi-national research
group that performs cutting-edge, highly-demanding climate prediction
experiments. The candidate should be able to work as an active and
collaborative team member to help in the delivery of shared objectives
ant to efficiently communicate results. Hence, the ability to work as
part of a large, strongly-coordinated team and to continuously share
both knowledge and tools is an essential aspect required.
Conditions and application procedures
The position is opened for 12 months with an extension for one more year
depending on performance. The position will start preferably in October
2014 or as soon as possible after that date. The salary will be
commensurate with experience.
To apply, please send and email to jobs@ic3.catwith your CV and the
following subject ?Ocean modeler at the CFU?.
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:33:54 +0200
From: Human Resources <jobs@ic3.cat>
Subject: [Met-jobs] IC3, Barcelona | Post Doctoral Researcher in
Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases
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Post Doctoral Researcher in Mathematical Modelling of Infectious
Diseases (UDIC).
LOCATION
IC3 Headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
General description and work environment
The Institut Catal? de Ci?ncies del Clima (IC3) is a climate institution
created by the Government of Catalunya and the University of Barcelona,
aiming at understanding climate change and variability, the dynamics and
theory underlying those changes and the impact on society. IC3 focus on
the Mediterranean regions, tropical Africa, South America and Southeast
Asia.
The UDIC is interested in research fields as diverse as Mediterranean
and tropical climates, teleconnections and global climate dynamics, ENSO
genesis and its predictability, the role of climate variability on the
global carbon cycle and understanding, detecting and simulating climate
impacts. On the latter, the RG on Climate and Health is specifically
devoted to modeling the dynamics of infectious diseases driven by
climate variability. In particular, we have been very active in trying
to understand better the way vector-borne diseases behave and how their
epidemiology interacts with the environment and climate in both endemic
and epidemic settings. Malaria, dengue, chikungunya and leishmaniasis
are among our interests, though we work also on other relevant human
diseases with an environmental link such as cholera, rotavirus and
Kawasaki disease.
For details, see www.ic3.cat
Desired skills / Qualifications
Idealcandidateswillhaveseveralofthefollowingattributes:
- Skill and demonstrated ability and experience in building, calibrating
and in the validation of mathematical models (stochastic ODE systems)
for modeling the dynamics of infectious disease (VBD) or/and (WBD).
Experience in procedures for estimating modeling parameters (e.g. MIF
methods), will be highly valued.
- The candidate should have demonstrated facility in handling large
database (especially climatic databases) and in programming languages
needed for developing code and scripts, as well as proven skills in
advanced statistics is a strong requirement.
- Capacity to write proposals, manuscripts and to work with other
colleagues in a highly collaborative environment will also be valued.
- Fluency in spoken and written English, fluency in other European
languages will be also valued.
Conditions and application procedures
The position is opened for 24 months with a possibility for extension
and starts preferably anytime in October or November 2014 or as soon as
possible after that date.The salary will be competitive and commensurate
with experience.
To apply, please send your CV accompanied with a brief statement (max. 1
page) of interest and experience with the following subject ?Application
for Postdoc researcher in Mathematical Modelling? by e-mail to jobs@ic3.cat
Selected finals candidates should ask for three letters of
recommendation from scientists from paces other than their current
workplace. A letter from the PhD advisor is also encouraged.
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 11:52:25 +0200
From: MENUT Laurent <menut@lmd.polytechnique.fr>
Subject: [Met-jobs] One year post-doc for online mineral dust modeling
with WRF-CHIMERE
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Title: Online modeling of mineral dust emissions and transport
with the WRF-CHIMERE system
NUMTECH jointly with LMD offer a 1 year position to work on the
mineral dust modeling using the WRF and CHIMERE models. The
position is funded through a research project (DRUMS) funded by a
French national agency (ANR). The location of the position will
be mainly at LMD (?cole polytechnique, Palaiseau, France).
Details on this position is given in the attached document.
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Laurent MENUT
Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique IPSL
Ecole Polytechnique 91128 Palaiseau Cedex
http://www.lmd.polytechnique.fr/~menut - Tel: (33) 1.69.33.51.75
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