The CIRES Put up-Doctoral Affiliate will work intently with a staff of NOAA and CIRES scientists to carry out laboratory research of the spectroscopy, bodily, and chemical properties of CaCO3, a proposed stratospheric aerosol local weather intervention agent, and different Ca minerals. This can be a 2-year appointment, contingent on efficiency.
Date posted
Feb. 7, 2023 1:45 pm
Software deadline
Mar. 7, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIRES/NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory on the College of Colorado Boulder
Location
Job description
The Cooperative Institute for Analysis in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the College of Colorado Boulder is in search of a Put up-Doctoral Affiliate to hitch the Chemical Processes and Instrument Growth group of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL). Inside this group, the CIRES Put up-Doctoral Affiliate will work intently with a staff of NOAA and CIRES scientists to carry out laboratory research of the spectroscopy, bodily, and chemical properties of CaCO3, a proposed stratospheric aerosol local weather intervention agent, and different Ca minerals. This can be a 2-year appointment, contingent on efficiency.
A doctoral diploma in chemistry, physics, atmospheric science or a associated subject is required for this place. The best candidate would have expertise with infrared spectroscopy and the DRIFTS method. The candidate ought to talk successfully and should be capable to work independently in addition to collaboratively inside a bunch.
The College of Colorado Boulder is dedicated to constructing a culturally numerous group of college, workers, and college students devoted to contributing to an inclusive campus surroundings. We’re an Equal Alternative employer, together with veterans and people with disabilities.
Who We Are
The Cooperative Institute for Analysis in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) is an internationally acknowledged chief in progressive environmental science and analysis and is situated on the College of Colorado Boulder. At CIRES, greater than 800 environmental science professionals work to grasp the dynamic Earth system, together with folks’s relationship with the planet. CIRES has partnered with NOAA since 1967, and our areas of experience embody climate and local weather, modifications at Earth’s poles, air high quality and atmospheric chemistry, water sources, stable Earth sciences, and extra. Our imaginative and prescient is to be instrumental in guaranteeing a sustainable future surroundings by advancing scientific and societal understanding of the Earth system.
Within the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) researchers conduct laboratory experiments, construct devices to make exact measurements, design and execute subject missions, analyze observations, and use pc fashions to raised perceive how our altering ambiance is influencing local weather – and due to this fact folks.
What Your Key Tasks Will Be
- Work intently with a staff of NOAA and CIRES scientists to advance the understanding of CaCO3 as a local weather intervention aerosol.
- Design laboratory experiments, carry out experiments, and interpret information.
- Report on this analysis in scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.
What we Require
- A doctoral diploma in chemistry, physics, atmospheric science, or a associated subject.
- Expertise within the operation of Fourier remodel infrared spectrometers (FTIR) and utility of the DRIFTS method.
- Expertise in performing and deciphering laboratory experiments.
- Expertise in heterogeneous laboratory research.
- Expertise in chemical kinetic strategies and information evaluation/interpretation.
- Skill to study and apply new expertise.
- Eagerness to advance scientific understanding.
- Willingness to work each independently and collaboratively.
- Robust skill to speak ends in each written and oral kind.
- Want and skill to contribute to an inclusive and numerous work surroundings.
Please be aware that whereas the place particulars each required and most well-liked expertise and expertise, we invite candidates to use even when they don’t have the popular expertise and expertise outlined on this “What We Would Like You To Have” part. When you meet the necessities and have ardour for the work, you might be inspired to use. We encourage on the job coaching for any extra expertise or information that grow to be related to the place.
- Expertise in performing and evaluation of absolute and relative fee kinetic information.
- Expertise with pulsed lasers.
- Expertise with fuel and aerosol stream reactors.
- Expertise with mass spectrometry strategies.
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