The Floor-Environment Change (SAE) Environmental Scientist will likely be a part of the NEON Science Crew that’s chargeable for working, sustaining, and guaranteeing the success of a nationwide program to generate > 180 standardized information merchandise from 81 websites all through the US for over 30 years.
Date posted
Aug. 29, 2022 1:15 pm
Software deadline
Sep. 29, 2022 5:00 pm
Group
Battelle Memorial Institute
Location
Job description
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We’re presently in search of an Environmental Scientist, Floor Environment Change . The popular location for this place is Boulder, CO , although we’re keen to contemplate distant work areas for certified candidates.
Job Abstract
The Floor-Environment Change (SAE) Environmental Scientist will likely be a part of the NEON Science Crew that’s chargeable for working, sustaining, and guaranteeing the success of a nationwide program to generate > 180 standardized information merchandise from 81 websites all through the US for over 30 years. The Science Crew develops, maintains, and improves subject and lab protocols, derives information processing and information QA/QC algorithms, develops and maintains information evaluation pipelines, works with exterior analytical laboratory companions, and collaborates with NEON Cyberinfrastructure software program engineers to supply and publish prime quality information merchandise for the analysis, training, and decision-making communities.
The SAE Environmental Scientist will likely be an integral a part of NEON’s SAE Group, which is chargeable for delivering scientific design options, software program and information merchandise for the eddy covariance system. Core obligations of the SAE Environmental Scientist embrace actively contributing to and creating elements of eddy4R (an R-based code bundle for eddy covariance information processing) by modularizing, hardening and enhancing its efficiency, supporting integration into NEON’s information processing pipeline, and actively coordinating throughout groups to make sure supply of high-quality information. Moreover, this place will assist growth of knowledge processing and QA/QC algorithms, monitor information high quality, and carry out guide flagging, and supply assist for resolving information high quality points for the eddy covariance and associated information merchandise. The profitable candidate will even pursue collaborations with scientists and information customers, each internally and externally to assist algorithm growth, high quality enhancements, and use of NEON information and infrastructure. Interactions with the science neighborhood will embrace co-leading the SAE and Atmospheric Secure Isotope Technical Working Teams, addressing exterior inquiries and requests, and contributing to scientific manuscripts and proposals.
Important Duties and Duties
- eddy4R (https://github.com/NEONScience/eddy4R) codebase upkeep and growth, together with modularization (hierarchical workflows, packages, features with managed terminology), hardening (sensitivity checks, failsafes), efficiency enchancment (profiling, vectorizing, file-backed objects, parallelization), and microsystems integration (Pachyderm)
- Collaborative eddy4R coding, together with function additions, bug fixes, and integrating neighborhood code contributions
- Establish and tackle methods to enhance information high quality and contribute to sensor and infrastructure growth for eddy covariance and associated information merchandise in collaboration with different NEON groups and information customers
- Take part within the bigger NEON science neighborhood, supporting the energetic engagement between the Observatory and the broader science neighborhood in assist of its mission (e.g., attending conferences, working teams)
- Help planning, moderating, and monitoring of science code growth duties and different actions associated to the bundled eddy covariance information merchandise
- Take part in weekly Floor Environment Change crew coordination and planning conferences
- Work throughout a multidisciplinary crew together with Science, Engineering, Area Science, and CyberInfrastructure
- Manually flag eddy covariance and associated information merchandise, as wanted, and develop and replace documentation for finish customers
- Take part in and co-lead within the Floor Environment Change and Atmospheric Secure Isotope Technical Working Teams
- Help scientific publications and proposals
- Help Area Science workers in attaining eddy covariance information high quality
- Contribute to different NEON undertaking deliverables as wanted
Required Schooling, Expertise, Data and Abilities
- Bachelor’s diploma in atmospheric science, ecology, environmental science, or a associated subject with 2 years of expertise or grasp’s diploma or PhD.
- Expertise with open science/reproducible science workflows, together with code sharing on platforms comparable to GitHub.
- Expertise with evaluation of eddy covariance information
- Excessive stage of consideration to element, with a self-directed and goal-oriented work fashion
- Demonstrated abilities in administration and evaluation of huge, multivariate datasets.
- Professional data within the R Programming language for Statistical Computing and expertise in integrating, hardening and performance-improving R-code
- Demonstrated expertise successfully speaking throughout and integrating inside a heterogeneous crew. Affected person listening abilities, clear and succinct self-expression
- Means to talk in public to a variety of audiences together with scientists, science educators, faculty/college school, college-level college students, and funding company (NSF) program administrators.
- Robust downside fixing and analytical abilities
- Confirmed capacity to write down and edit technical content material, scientific literature and/or scientific proposals for public supply.
- Willingness to journey often to subject websites, conferences, and so on.
To study extra concerning the NEON Challenge, go to: https://www.neonscience.org/
For extra details about NEON floor environment alternate information merchandise and neighborhood, please see:
- Eddy covariance information product particulars: https://information.neonscience.org/data-products/DP4.00200.001
- NEON’s sampling design and method for measuring flux: https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/100/11/bams-d-17-0307.1.xml
- NEON’s Floor Environment Change Technical Working Group: https://www.neonscience.org/about/advisory-groups/twgs/surface-atmosphere-exchange-twg
Please direct questions and inquiries to Stefan Metzger smetzger@battelleecology.org
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