This place shall be liable for engaged on a number of earth floor course of and geomorphology initiatives, with a selected give attention to investigating the position of landslides in shaping terrain, creating hazards, and feeding sediment via river networks.
Date posted
Mar. 6, 2023 3:30 pm
Utility deadline
Apr. 9, 2023 5:00 pm
Group
CIRES on the College of Colorado Boulder
Location
Job description
The Computational Geomorphology Group inside the Cooperative Institute for Analysis in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) on the College of Colorado Boulder seeks a Publish-Doctoral Affiliate with expertise in earth floor dynamics analysis and numerical modeling. This place shall be liable for engaged on a number of earth floor course of and geomorphology initiatives, with a selected give attention to investigating the position of landslides in shaping terrain, creating hazards, and feeding sediment via river networks. You’ll collaborate with investigators at CU Boulder, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, West Virginia College, and the College of Washington. The profitable applicant will conduct analysis utilizing open-source modeling and knowledge evaluation instruments, NASADEM knowledge, and different digital elevation knowledge merchandise. The profitable applicant shall be anticipated to publish their analysis and attend/current at scientific conferences. Work is anticipated to incorporate contributing to open-source numerical modeling and/or knowledge evaluation instruments.
The College of Colorado Boulder is dedicated to constructing a culturally various neighborhood of college, employees, 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 know the dynamic Earth system, together with individuals’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 assets, strong 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.
Concerning the Computational Geomorphology Group: The CU Boulder Computational Geomorphology Group conducts analysis into various Earth floor processes and landforms. The Group works intently with the Neighborhood Floor Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS), which is an open-source, community-based modeling effort with main funding from the Nationwide Science Basis. CSDMS promotes earth floor course of modeling by creating, supporting, and disseminating built-in software program parts that examine earth floor modifications, together with the manufacturing, erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment and vitamins in landscapes, seascapes, and their sedimentary basins. Extra info could also be discovered on-line at: https://cires.colorado.edu/analysis/research-groups/cu-boulder-computational-geomorphology-group.
What Your Key Tasks Will Be
- Conduct analysis on landsliding and associated processes utilizing open-source modeling and knowledge evaluation instruments.
- Contribute to the rising assortment of open-source software program instruments curated by CSDMS.
- Work with NASADEM knowledge, and different digital elevation knowledge merchandise.
- Attend and current at scientific conferences.
- Write manuscripts describing outcomes.
- Carry out different duties as wanted.
What You Ought to Know
- It is a two-year place with the potential of extension contingent on efficiency and funding.
- It’s anticipated for this place to be in-office full-time.
- All College of Colorado Boulder staff are required to adjust to the campus COVID-19 vaccine requirement. New staff should present proof of vaccination or obtain a medical or spiritual exemption inside 30 days of employment.
What We Require
- PhD in Geoscience or a associated self-discipline.
What You Will Want
- Programming expertise with Python or comparable language.
- Robust need to proceed studying new expertise, instruments, and ideas.
- Capability to speak successfully.
- Capability to work as part of a group.
What We Would Like You to Have
Please notice 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. In the event you meet the necessities and have ardour for the work, you might be inspired to use. We encourage on the job coaching for any further expertise or data that develop into related to the place.
- Expertise in geomorphology analysis.
- Expertise in mathematical and numerical mannequin growth and utility.
- Expertise with open-source analysis software program.
- Expertise with digital elevation knowledge and/or comparable geospatial knowledge.
- Expertise writing scholarly journal articles.
Posting will stay open till 4/9/2023.
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