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Today's Topics:
1. Postdoctoral Research Scientist : NCAS-Climate, Met
Department, University of Reading (Nicola Denise Bray (Meteorology))
2. Scottish Power Renewables - Summer Placement Opportunity
(Roger Brugge)
3. Moltek - Senior SST Scientist Support (Roger Brugge)
4. Moltek -Senior Ocean Colour Scientist Support (Roger Brugge)
5. Ph.D. Position at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks (USA)
(Roger Brugge)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:39:31 +0000
From: "Nicola Denise Bray (Meteorology)" <n.d.bray@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Postdoctoral Research Scientist : NCAS-Climate,
Met Department, University of Reading
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Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Employing unit: NCAS-Climate, Department of Meteorology
Start date: 1st June 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter
Closing date: Friday 24th April 2015
Interview date: To be confirmed (to occur in the week commencing 11th May 2015)
Reference number: SF07134
Post type: Full time, fixed-term to 31 March 2018
Grade: 6
Payscale: ?28,695 to ?31,342 per annum
The University of Reading is seeking to appoint a motivated Postdoctoral Research Scientist with interests in large-scale atmospheric dynamics to join the ODYSEA project (Ocean Drivers of Seasonal to Decadal European Climate Variability). The postdoc will seek to understand the large-scale atmospheric circulation response to ocean drivers by performing idealised and GCM modelling experiments. The postholder will join a vibrant research community in the University of Reading's Meteorology Department. There will be excellent opportunities to collaborate strongly with forecast providers (especially the UK Met Office) and partner Universities to explore the implications of their work for improved seasonal and decadal climate forecasting. ODYSEA is part of the wider NERC research programme on "Drivers of Variability in Atmospheric Circulation".
You will have:
- Excellent quantitative scientific and analytical skills
- Demonstrated interest in climate science, particularly large-scale atmospheric dynamics
- A PhD in a quantitative physical or mathematical science (or expect to gain one shortly)
- Demonstrated computing skills (programming, use of complex scientific software)
- Strong team working and communication skills
Informal contact details
Contact role: Principal Investigator
Contact name: Dr David Brayshaw
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 5585
Contact email: d.j.brayshaw@reading.ac.uk<mailto:d.j.brayshaw@reading.ac.uk>
Alternative informal contact details
Contact role: Co Investigator
Contact name: Dr Nick Klingaman
Contact phone: +44 (0)118 378 4652
Contact email: n.p.klingaman@reading.ac.uk<mailto:n.p.klingaman@reading.ac.uk>
To formally apply, please visit www.reading.ac.uk/jobs<http://www.reading.ac.uk/jobs> or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH. Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 (voicemail).
Link to this vacancy
http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/about-job-details.aspx?vacancy_id=8444668Shk
Please quote the relevant reference number. We value a diverse workforce and welcome applications from all sections of the community.
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:22:13 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Scottish Power Renewables - Summer Placement
Opportunity
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Dear All
Scottish Power currently have an available summer placement opportunity for an undergraduate (or recent graduate) in the area of Oceanography, Coastal Engineering or Meteorology. I was passed your contact details by Jacob Royle, the hiring manager, and I understand that you may have students currently undertaking courses that match our opportunity.
I have attached the job advert template, please can I request that this information is passed to any students that would be interested in gaining some work experience? Applications can be made at the careers section of our website.
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:24:50 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Moltek - Senior SST Scientist Support
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MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies.
We are looking to further enhance our team by
Senior SST Scientist Support
You will be based initially for 2 years at our client?s headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 2 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities.
Your Tasks Include:
The activities for this Consultancy will include scientific and engineering aspects related to the scientific support to both SLSTR Level-l Radiance and Brightness Temperature products and Level-2 Sea Surface Temperature products. This will include contributions to the scientific development, maintenance, processors, calibration, validation, verification, routine monitoring and offline analysis of Level-1 and Level-2 SLSTR marine data products in support of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 marine mission. The requested support is for the Sentinel-3 SLSTR optical mission product chains, but aligning with the other marine activities relating to the mandatory missions.
Remotely sensed marine data also originates from the current and future Client mandatory satellite programs (EPS, EPS-SG, MSG, MTG). Several marine products are currently already in operations or are in development from sensors such as AVHRR and IASI on Metop and SEVIRI on MSG and may contribute to the Copernicus services. Such data may be needed to support the validation of Sentinel-3 SLSTR data, through continuous inter- comparison o f collocated products.
The consultant will work in a matrix structure providing cross-divisional support to the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Operations Team and will be a member of the oceanography team of experts and scientists of the RSP/MA-section of the Technical and Science Support Department.
The tasks and responsibilities will include:
? Support to the verification and validation oflevel-2 products;
? Support to verification and calibration activities for level-1 products;
? Support to the development of new tools for calibration and/or validation as well as utilisation of existing tools;
? Support to the development of new tools for product processing monitoring as well as utilisation of existing tools;
? Investigation of anomalies and issues related to Level 1 and Level 2 product quality;
? Support to the set-up and operation of product quality monitoring and reporting tools;
? Contribution to the analysis, assessment and maintenance ofLl/L2 marine satellite data processors and algorithms;
? Contribution to scientific development of algorithms to support Cal/Val activities;
? Contribution to the execution of scientific support studies.
The support will involve cross-divisional interactions and interface with experts in various disciplines (system engineering, instruments, operations, science), as well as Cal/Val experts.
Your Profile:
Scientific support consultancy will be sought mainly in the areas of optical imaging for oceanography products, in particular for marine I sea surface temperature products.
The consultant shall have the following mandatory experience and background:
? University degree in remote sensing, oceanography, meteorology, physics, or equivalent;
? Good inter-personal skills in support of team work;
? 5 years or longer experience with satellite Sea Surface Temperature and/or visible and infrared data sets;
? Knowledge of the pre-cursor mission to Sentinel-3 SLSTR;
? Hands-on experience with the calibration and validation of remote sensing products;
? Hands on experience with the development of calibration and/or product validation methods;
? Experience with operational satellite data processing;
? Very good (5 years or longer) scientific programming language skills (including C++, IDLIPV-Wave, ENVI or equivalent and optionally Fortran, Python);
? Skills in writing technical and scientific documents;
? Familiarity with Microsoft Office.
The following experience would be highly desirable:
? Experience in the development and validation of satellite data processing;
? Experience with large data sets;
? Hands on experience with the development of calibration and/or product validation methods.
The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language. Good communication skills are essential for the fulfillment of the tasks requiring interaction.
For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to:
http://www.moltek.com
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:25:41 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Moltek -Senior Ocean Colour Scientist Support
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MOLTEK has been serving the space and aerospace industries since 1995, providing international consultancy services for a wide variety of clients from private and public corporations to national and international authorities and agencies.
We are looking to further enhance our team by
Senior Ocean Colour Scientist Support
You will be based initially for 2 years at our client?s headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. Extension of a further 2 years may be possible. In this large European Agency you will find an excellent and modern working environment with challenging tasks and responsibilities.
Your Tasks Include:
The activities for this consultancy will include scientific and engineering aspects related to the scientific support to both Sentinel-3 OLCI Level-l TOA Radiance products and Level-2 Ocean Colour products. This will include contributions to the scientific development, maintenance, Level-l and Level-2 processors, instrument calibration, algorithm and product validation, verification, routine monitoring and offline analysis of Level-l and Level-2 OLCI marine data products in support of the Copernicus Sentinel-3 marine mission.
The requested support is for the Sentinel-3 OLCI Ocean Colour product chains; nevertheless, assistance with other marine activities may be required. EUMETSAT disseminates Ocean Colour Third Party Data to Copernicus Marine Services and is in the process of developing OC-related products from its own mandatory missions. The OLCI CalNal activities will require inter-comparisons with Third Party Ocean Colour data sets.
The tasks and responsibilities will include:
? Support to validation and verification of Level-2 Ocean Colour algorithms and Level-2 and Level-3 products;
? Support to OLCI instrument characterization and calibration and to verification of Level-1 products;
? Support to the scientific and engineering development of calibration and validation methods as well as implementation of new tools and utilisation of existing tools;
? Support to the development of new tools for product processing monitoring and utilisation of existing tools;
? Investigation of anomalies and issues related to Level 1 and Level 2 product quality;
? Support to the set-up and operation of product quality monitoring and reporting tools;
? Contribution to the analysis, assessment and maintenance of L1/L2 Ocean Colour satellite data processors and algorithms;
? Contribution to scientific development of algorithms to support Cal/Val activities;
? Contribution to the execution of scientific support studies.
The consultant will work in a matrix structure providing cross-divisional support to the Copernicus Sentinel-3 Operations Team and will be a member of the oceanography team of experts and scientists of the RSP/MA-Section of the TSS Department.
The support will involve cross-divisional interactions and interface with experts in various disciplines (system engineering, instruments, operations, science), as well as Cal/Val experts.
Your Profile:
Scientific support consultancy is sought mainly in the areas of optical imaging for oceanography products, in particular for Ocean Colour products.
The consultant shall have the following mandatory experience and background:
? University degree in remote sensing, oceanography, physics, or equivalent;
? Good inter-personal skills in support of team work;
? 5 years or longer experience with satellite Ocean Colour;
? Hands-on experience with the calibration and the validation of remote sensing products;
? Hands on experience with the development of calibration and product validation methods and tools;
? Familiarity with the precursor to the Sentinel-3 Ocean Colour mission;
? Experience with operational satellite data processing;
? Mandatory 5 years of scientific programming skills (C++, IDL/PV-WAVE and ENVI or equivalent);
? Skills in writing technical and scientific documents;
? Familiarity with Linux programming environment and Microsoft Office.
The following experience would be highly desirable:
? Experience with calibration and characterization of Ocean Colour instruments and with calibration validation;
? Experience in the development and validation of Ocean Colour data processing;
? Experience with the development of product monitoring tools;
? Experience with large data sets.
The working language for the position is English and therefore the key person must be able to work effectively in this language. Good communication skills are essential for the fulfillment of the tasks requiring interaction.
For more detailed information about MOLTEK go to:
http://www.moltek.com
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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 19:28:06 +0000
From: "Roger Brugge" <r.brugge@reading.ac.uk>
Subject: [Met-jobs] Ph.D. Position at the University of
Alaska-Fairbanks (USA)
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Forwarded from CLIMLIST...
PhD position: starts in September 2015.
Project: PhD position in Arctic oceanography and air-ice-sea interactions
Funding: NOAA
The physical processes controlling the delivery, storage and release of
heat within the Arctic Ocean to its overlying ice cover are likely to
increase in importance, and must be studied if we are to reduce
uncertainties in projections of the Arctic?s role in weather and likely
trajectories of future climate. This project will examine the role of
various oceanic processes in shaping variability in the Eurasian Basin
of the Arctic Ocean and delivering heat from the ocean interior to the
upper ocean and sea ice. In addition to the opportunities for learning
and professional training that are provided by a traditional onshore
educational system, the student will have a unique chance to experience
Arctic exploration aboard an icebreaker to acquire invaluable skills in
oceanographic field work under harsh arctic conditions, and to gain a
better understanding of modern methods of high-latitude observations and
analysis, and to personally participate in the study of the
fast-changing Arctic environment. Thus, a combination of field
monitoring and physical measurements, experiments and physical models
will be used to isolate processes, quantify interactions and
environmental changes. To learn more about this project visit
<http://research.iarc.uaf.edu/NABOS2/>.
The ideal candidate is a curious and driven person with strong
communication and interpersonal skills. You should be motivated to work
in a multi-disciplinary environment, with both field people and
modelers. You should have a Masters level degree in a relevant area,
e.g., Oceanography, Atmospheric and/or Earth Sciences, Mathematics, or
Physics. Programming skills are an important asset. You will need strong
written and spoken English communication and should have experience in
scientific writing.
Contact Igor Polyakov (<igor@iarc.uaf.edu>) to discuss this opportunity.
The next step will be to apply to the PhD program of the Department of
Atmospheric Sciences in the College of Natural Science and Mathematics
of the University of Alaska Fairbanks
(<http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/atm/atm/index.html.html>). Application
details are listed here:
<http://ffden-2.phys.uaf.edu/atm/atm/Academics/admission.html>. Please
make a reference to this project in your application. We intend to fill
this position with a start date of August 1st, 2015 so the student can
take part in the summer NABOS cruise.
Selection process: Reviews of applications will commence on May 1st,
2015. You will be notified you whether we will interview by Skype.
Position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
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