Ocean Associates Inc. (OAI), along with our teaming accomplice, IBSS, seeks full-time Oceanographers to assist the Coastal Hazards Department of the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Heart for Operational Oceanographic Merchandise and Companies (CO-OPS) in Silver Spring, MD.
Date posted
Oct. 18, 2022 12:30 pm
Software deadline
Nov. 18, 2022 5:00 pm
Group
Ocean Associates Inc. (OAI)
Location
Job description
Ocean Associates Inc. (OAI), along with our teaming accomplice, IBSS, seeks full-time Oceanographers to assist the Coastal Hazards Department of the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Heart for Operational Oceanographic Merchandise and Companies (CO-OPS) in Silver Spring, MD. CO-OPS is the authoritative supply for correct, dependable, and well timed tides, water ranges, currents, and different coastal oceanographic and meteorological data. A well-qualified candidate may have an academic background in a Marine Science self-discipline and a working data of MATLAB, Python, and/or ArcGIS. If you’re trying to be an instrumental a part of a rising, worker and customer-focused firm engaged on thrilling points in environmental science and different marine/coastal assets, we need to hear from you!
Key Duties:
- Carry out high quality management and evaluate of water degree knowledge to finish updates of Sea Degree Developments, Exceedance Chance, Excessive Tide Flooding, and Excessive Water Degree merchandise, on a routine foundation in addition to after high-water occasions.
- Conduct statistical analyses in assist of the annual Excessive Tide Flooding Outlook report and quarterly Excessive Tide Bulletin. Help product automation and integration into the Coastal Inundation Dashboard, leading to seamless entry throughout timescales by a single software that builds situational consciousness on coastal water ranges.
- Develop prototype merchandise and visualizations of water degree, wave, or vertical land movement statistics and predictions utilizing Python and MATLAB.
- Develop API/knowledge companies of gridded water degree knowledge, together with sea degree projections and situations, minor and main water degree extremes, excessive tide flooding possibilities, and vertical land movement from a sea degree rise technical report back to be built-in into the Fifth Nationwide Local weather Evaluation.
- Help necessities improvement and use of the gridded API knowledge companies to assist the event of a next-generation inundation evaluation software or “calculator”.
- Present computation, scientific coding, and GIS assist to construct improved hazard visualization merchandise, together with integrating legacy merchandise like sea degree rise tendencies with vertical land movement and producing imply sea degree and water temperature.
- Help the transition of exterior analysis of a 40-year reanalysis of ADCIRC-modeled water ranges alongside your complete U.S. ocean shoreline into CO-OPS operational atmosphere by GitHub and Cloud companies. Develop API/knowledge companies of gridded water degree knowledge and decide options to combine the gridded knowledge set with point-based knowledge to fill the gaps between NOAA water degree stations at roughly each 500m alongside the coast.
- Help within the planning for legacy point-based merchandise to be consolidated and faraway from CO-OPS web site as gridded merchandise turn out to be operational.
- Help within the improvement and operationalization of nearshore wave observations, which is able to assist marine navigation, hydrodynamic mannequin improvement, coastal change forecasts, and the prediction of coastal hazards equivalent to rip currents, storm surge, and wave run-up.
- In a database atmosphere, establish and resolve deficiencies in water degree datasets and metadata required to supply oceanographic merchandise.
- Help with the revision of SOPs used to investigate oceanographic knowledge and generate merchandise.
- Help with the event of displays, technical experiences, and peer-reviewed publications in areas of experience.
Required Expertise /Schooling/ Certifications & {Qualifications}:
- Grasp’s diploma in oceanography, meteorology, hydrology, physics, bodily science, geophysics, civil engineering, or a intently associated self-discipline, and two years of related expertise, or a Bachelor of Science diploma in one of many above fields and 6 years of related expertise.
- Information of oceanographic rules, theories, and practices adequate to evaluate and analyze knowledge is required.
- Should be proficient in utilizing the Microsoft Home windows working system, Microsoft Workplace functions, and Google’s Collaboration Suite (e.g., Docs, Sheets, and Slides) for analyzing knowledge and growing and enhancing paperwork and displays.
- Sturdy oral and written communication abilities, in addition to a demonstrated potential to work properly independently and as a part of a workforce, are required.
- Normal database and question expertise and a working data of MATLAB, Python, and/or ArcGIS could also be required relying on what activity(s) the place helps.
- Potential to work successfully each individually and collaboratively in a workforce/group setting.
- Potential to obtain constructive suggestions and implement acceptable motion.
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