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Today's Topics:
1. Instructor (Meteorology)
(NAVY OP TRG-FOST HM TO OC (Corbett, Will Contractor))
2. Business Development and Fundraising Manager at the Royal
Meteorological Society (Roger Brugge)
3. Postdoc position, Quimper or Brest, France (Roger Brugge)
4. Lecturer Position at Monash University (Australia)
(Roger Brugge)
5. Research Software Engineer at the Laboratoire des Sciences du
Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE-IPSL) (France) (Roger Brugge)
6. PhD Position at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de
l'Environnement (LSCE-IPSL) (France) (Roger Brugge)
7. Postdoc vacancy in atmospheric chemistry/Earth Observation at
U. Edinburgh (Paul Palmer)
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 13:06:41 -0000
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Subject: [Met-jobs] Instructor (Meteorology)
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Applications are being taken by Babcock International Group (Defence and
Security Division) for the role of Training Delivery Instructor
(Meteorology) in HM Naval Base Devonport, Plymouth.
The position is full time, on a permanent contract, and the successful
applicant will be required to deliver high quality training in
meteorology and oceanography in line with Company standards and
contractual requirements.
Full details of the job, and how to apply, are provided at the link. The
closing date for applications is 6 February 2015.
http://www.babcockinternational.com/careers/vacancies/details.aspx?nPost
ingID=15443&nPostingTargetID=49358&option=52&sort=DESC&respnr=1&ID=QQMFK
026203F3VBQB8MV479AL&LOV17=7095&CAT1=329&ContractType=1107&Resultsperpag
e=10&lg=UK&mask=stdext
Further information may be obtained from me, using the contact
information below.
Will Corbett
W R Corbett | Training Officer (Oceanography), FOST HM | Defence and
Security Babcock International Group |
Room 10, Fitzroy Building, Upper Battery Road | HMS DRAKE | Devonport
| Plymouth | PL2 2BG
Tel: +44 (0)1752 555948
Email: NAVYOPTRG-FOSTHMTOOC@mod.uk
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:12:56 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Business Development and Fundraising Manager at
the Royal Meteorological Society
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Online at
http://www.rmets.org/business-development-and-fundraising-manager-rmets-hq
Business Development and Fundraising Manager at the Royal Meteorological Society
Salary: ?44,000-50,000 per annum, depending on experience
Background
The Royal Meteorological Society is the UK?s professional and learned Society for Weather and Climate, and is respected around the world for its contribution to meteorology. The Society is a charity and its programmes of work include providing professional accreditation, developing educational resources and skills, producing scientific publications, holding public and professional meetings and events, giving advice to Government and policy makers, and providing information to the public on the science of weather and climate change.
The Society?s is looking to bring in an experienced strategic Business Development & Fundraising Manager to develop and implement the Society?s fundraising strategy in order to maximise sustainable income. As a member of the Executive team they will make a significant contribution to the strategic direction of the Society.
Main Responsibilities
Lead the development and regular review of an effective and enterprising fundraising strategy for the Society that maximises sustainable income streams and ensures fundraising operational plans focus on meeting net income targets.
Create opportunities, develop, negotiate and project manage collaborative projects and bids for funding in line with the Society?s Strategic Plan
Contribute to writing tenders and applications and oversee the effective management for the submission of tenders and fundraising applications.
Build and maintain positive relationships with contract managers, grant officers, corporate and trust donors, etc, supporting Executive team colleagues including the Chief Executive to do the same; ensure the coordination and collation of intelligence from others who have similar contacts.
Ensure effective collaboration between fundraisers and relevant Society members of staff, notably education and outreach, and scientific knowledge management to develop project outlines which are attractive to donors while achieving the strategic aims of the Society.
Raise the profile and awareness of the Society in the UK and internationally.
Contribute to the overall strategic direction of the Society through membership of the Executive Management Team, attendance at Council meetings, and representing the Business Development function of the organisation
>From time-to-time, in common with other staff in the Secretariat, this person will also be expected to help on a short-term basis with any task that is necessary to ensure that the Society and its events run efficiently and achieve the objectives set by the Council.
Required Skills and Competencies
The required skills and competencies that the Society views as essential for this role are:
Extensive fundraising experience and knowledge with a demonstrable track record of success generating significant levels of income from trusts, academia, international bodies, EU funds, financial institutions and foundations.
Possess first class communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills with gravitas and credibility to manage stakeholders at all levels both internally and externally.
An ability to work completely autonomously and provide input at a senior management level.
An ability to plan, prioritise and manage a varied and busy workload delivering projects to a high standard with measurable outputs and meeting deadlines.
In addition it would be desirable, although not essential for the role, if the individual has:
An interest in meteorology.
An ability to think creatively and embrace new ideas and ways of working.
Details and Benefits
This is normally a full-time post working 37 hours per week, although the Society is willing to consider reduced hours working with a minimum of 25 hours per week. The Society actively supports flexible working arrangements where practical. The post is initially a 2-year contract.
The position is based at the Society?s Headquarters in Reading, where the job holder will work as part of the Headquarters team.
The post holder is entitled to 24.5 days holiday leave per year. This holiday entitlement is in addition to the 8 public holidays. These entitlements are based on full-time hours and reduced pro rata for part time working. In addition to the holiday benefits the Society pays 10% of salary as its employer?s pension contribution.
Reporting
The Business Development and Fundraising Manager will report to the Chief Executive of the Society.
Location: RMetS HQ, Reading
Starting salary ?44,000-50,000 depending on experience
Closing Date: 6th March 2015
Interviews: 23rd-31st March 2015
Starting Date: As soon as possible
Applicants should send details of how they meet the requirements for this role, a full CV and the names and contact details of at least two independent professional referees to the Chief Executive at the following address or by email to chiefexec@rmets.org<mailto:chiefexec@rmets.org>
Royal Meteorological Society
104 Oxford Road
Reading
RG1 7LL
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:20:25 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoc position, Quimper or Brest, France
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Extreme Weather Expertises (EXWEXS) offers a one-year Post-Doctoral
position based in Quimper or Brest ? France.
Applications are invited for one postdoctoral research fellowship
starting by spring 2014, in Quimper or Brest (Western Brittany), France,
to work on the following subject:
Issues related to the use of a mesoscale regional climate model offshore
Nigeria in the context of extreme wind associated to Mesoscale
Convective Systems
EXWEXS is a private company performing high level climatic and
atmospheric diagnostics related to extreme weather events and dramatic
meteorological changes associated to environmental modification.
Up-to-date scientific knowledge is one of our most important quality
requirement. Consequently, all studies performed by the company are
undertaken with a scientific approach and ethic, including critical
analysis of the results. For this purpose, all kind of information and
methods are used by EXWEXS, from in-situ data collection, remote data to
high resolution modelling.
The subject proposed is designed for a request about the local and
regional meteorological effect of the Mesoscale Convective Systems
(MCSs) on surface wind and particularly on the gust.
It has been underlined that the WRF model was not able to reproduce
correctly the low level atmospheric circulation over the sea offshore
Nigeria coast. For instance, several in-situ campaigns demonstrated
occurrences of wind gusts reaching 29 m/s while the model reached less
than 14 m/s. However, the same model also provided very good results
over Eastern Guinea Gulf and Cameroon for instance. A specific problem
over the offshore Nigeria thus remains and must be addressed by a
specific study. The deceiving time and space MCS simulation within the
WRF model is the main issue of this study and focus on the MCS
simulation is key to this study.
Based on an in-depth bibliographic review about the modelling of MCS
with the WRF model and its use over the tropical region (moreover over
Guinea Gulf and Nigeria off-shore region), the successful candidate will
be in charge of identifying the issues associated to the modelling of
extreme wind gust over the region of interest (by developing a
sensitivity plan study), to propose some improvement (for instance by
modifying physical schemes within the WRF model) and if reasonable, to
fix the issue.
For the wind gust local validation process, a special focus will be made
during some in-situ experiment campaigns when wind gust data exist.
Access to a high performance computing center is planed to perform the
sensitivity experiments.
Regular reporting should lead the candidate to a rigorous way of working
in order to produce a scientific publication by the end of the contract.
The successful candidate will be supervised by a West African Climate
and Meteorology specialist, internationally recognized as a contributor
to the understanding of the West African weather (See ?Progress in
understanding of weather systems in West Africa Royal Meteorological
Society 2011. Atm. Sci. Let. 12:7-12).
The candidate should have experience on numerical atmospheric modelling
with the WRF model as well as in tropical meteorology. Knowledge in
tropical ocean-atmosphere exchanges will be appreciated.
He/she should have a previous experience with high-performance computing
and should be familiar with Fortran programming language, Linux
environment (Shell), with data analysis and some graphic softwares (for
instance: NCL, Ferret, Grads, Python,...).
Applicant must work in a structured and systematic manner, making it
easier for him/her to meet deadlines. It is decisive for success in the
position that applicant is goal-oriented and quality-conscious.
Confortable salary with all social services and pensions will be offer
regarding the candidate experience and job match.
Education: PhD in atmospheric science or equivalent with less than 3
years after PhD.
The successful candidate will be based in our office in Brittany, near
Quimper or Brest(France).
The net monthly salary will vary, depending on qualification.
Application should be done by email by sending a resume, a motivation
letter, and the names, telephone and email address of 2 referees to:
contact@exwexs.fr<mailto:contact@exwexs.fr>
Application deadline: Late February
--
Dr Christophe Messager
CEO
Extreme Weather Expertises / EXWEXS
18 Rue Louis Garin 29120 Combrit - FRANCE
http://www.exwexs.fr
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:31:16 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Lecturer Position at Monash University (Australia)
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Lecturer (Climate)
Job No. 530913
Duration: Three years fixed-term appointment
The newly formed School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment (SEAE) at Monash University seeks to make an appointment for a specialist in climate studies to fill a 3 year fixed-term position, available from March 2015, to replace a continuing staff member who is taking up an ARC DECRA Fellowship.
The School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment is located in the Faculty of Science. It offers undergraduate teaching and postgraduate training for students in key areas of Earth System Science, most notably Geoscience, Meteorology and Climatology, and Environmental Earth Science and Physical Geography. The school provides a dynamic research hub for all Earth System Science at Monash University. It has 22 academic staff in the School, 30 research staff, 7 research support staff, 8 administrative and technical staff, 90 postgraduate students and total undergraduates of more than 350 EFTSL.
See http://jobs.monash.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=530913&lCategoryID=641%2C+640%2C+636&lBrandID=&lWorkTypeID=&lLocationID=&stp=AW&sLanguage=en
for full details
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:33:31 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Research Software Engineer at the Laboratoire des
Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE-IPSL) (France)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
Research software engineer (scientific computing): development and code
support ?LUDUS platform / ERC ACCLIMATE ; position for 2 to 4 years
Knowledge appreciated : Fortran, Bash, parallel programming (OpenMP,
MPI), versioning software usage.
Work environment : Linux, intel / GNU compilers, Subversion repository
Salary from 2000? bruto / month (Ing?nieur Etude CNRS), depending on status
Start: beginning of 2015
The ERC ACCLIMATE project will integrate results from climate
simulations and palaeoclimatic data to better understand the climate
evolution over the last 40,000 years.
Within ACCLIMATE, the coupled climate model iLOVECLIM (ocean,
atmosphere, vegetation, ice-sheet) will be used to undertake large
simulation ensembles including paleoclimate proxy tracers. At present,
the iLOVECLIM model is a Fortran code of about 120k lines, with a
compilation/running/post-processing enthronement in bash script. The
code as it is now is the result of an evolution during which components
have been successively added without global re-work of the framework.
The versioning system Subversion is used to help in the development
process of the code and to maintain it for a community of ~20 users.
To succeed in our current projects, we seek a research software engineer
in scientific computing to perform the following evolutions and maintenance:
1-/ Ensure evolution of the oldest part of the software code to the new
Fortran norms. Within that framework, it will be necessary to run
different instances of some software pieces together. The technical
choice is not decided yet but could be achieved through MPI (Message
Passing Interface). Finally, the ocean part of the code becoming heavier
with time, it will be necessary to parrallelise it, for example through
memory shared parallel instructions such as the OpenMP set.
2-/ Support users and code portability. The small user community is
mainly composed of scientists (researchers and PhD students). Part of
the assignment will be devoted to help them sustain their daily activity
and port the code on new machines.
3-/ Improve the model environment. Contribute to the general
infrastructure of the model will be possible in order to achieve e.g.
better integration of the software within the computing environment,
visualization improvements etc. (some of these could take advantage of
the methods already developed at IPSL).
Contact : Dr. Didier Roche
D.S.M. / Orme des Merisiers / Bat. 701
C.E. Saclay
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
email :Didier.Roche@lsce.ipsl.fr <mailto:Gilles.Ramstein@cea.fr>
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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 14:35:57 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] PhD Position at the Laboratoire des Sciences du
Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE-IPSL) (France)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
PhD offer: 36 months PhD contract
Start: beginning or fall 2015
Title: Using paleoclimate time series to constrain the physical
evolution of climate over the last 40 000 years
Summary
Past climates of the Earth as recorded in oceanic cores and ice cores
represent the ideal target to test our understanding of the physical
climate evolution using climate models. However, the capability of these
timeseries to constraint adequatedly climate models has been hampered by
several factors. The first obvious reason is that the evolution of
climate on earth as recorded is only one of the possible trajectories.
Hence, a subtle difference in the boundary conditions can lead to a
substantially different trajectory without any difference in the
physical system evaluated. As the boundary conditions are not known
perfectly, many different test cases have to be performed to evaluate
their likely evolution. Second, deficiencies in climate model result in
an inaccurate simulation of the evolution of the climate, even when
forced with perfect boundary conditions. There is therefore the need to
also test the impact of different versions of the same climate model,
using different parameter values or even different formulations for
physical parametrizations, over the same climate evolution to assess the
range of possibilities.
We propose within the frame of the ACCLIMATE ERC project to develop an
inversion method to use the palaeoclimate timeseries available to better
constrain the climate evolution over the last 40 000 years. The climate
model iLOVECLIM, equiped with a range of geochemical tracers directly
comparable to palaeoclimate records, will be used to realize large
ensembles of transient past climate simulations to evaluate the
potential of palaeoclimate records to characterize the dynamical
evolution of the climate system. The main objective is to assess whether
information contained in paleoclimatic data allows for a reduction in
the uncertainties arising from deficiencies in model physics and forcing
time series.
The obtained results will be put in perspective of the future climate
evolution of the Earth System.
Contact : Dr. Didier Roche
D.S.M. / Orme des Merisiers / Bat. 701
C.E. Saclay
F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
email :Didier.Roche@lsce.ipsl.fr <mailto:Gilles.Ramstein@cea.fr>
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 11:43:14 +0000
From: Paul Palmer <pip@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoc vacancy in atmospheric chemistry/Earth
Observation at U. Edinburgh
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I have a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher to work with the NERC
National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO). This position, based at
the University of Edinburgh, is focused on modelling atmospheric
transport and chemistry to interpret satellite observations of
atmospheric composition (gases and aerosol particles). Please view the
group website for current and recently completed science projects:
www.palmergroup.org.
It's currently an 18-month contract (until 31st August, 2016) but there
is a potential for this to be extended to five years with the
continuation of the NCEO contract.
Lots more information about this position can be found here:
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/
Vacancy number: 032507
Deadline for applications: 3rd March, 2015.
Paul Palmer
--
School of GeoSciences
University of Edinburgh
King's Buildings, West Mains Road
Edinburgh, EH9 3JW
E: pip@ed.ac.uk
U: http://www.palmergroup.org
Skype/Google+: paulipalmer
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