The selected candidate will join the BNL’s Center for Multiscale Applied sensing team (CMAS; https://www.bnl.gov/cmas/) working in close collaboration with the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department as part of the new Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory team.
Date posted
July 25, 2023 11:00 am
Application deadline
Aug. 25, 2023 5:00 pm
Organization
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Location
Job description
The selected candidate will join the BNL’s Center for Multiscale Applied sensing team (CMAS; https://www.bnl.gov/cmas/) working in close collaboration with the Environmental and Climate Sciences Department as part of the new Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory team.
The Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory is a multi-institutional project supported by the Department of Energy. The project aims to integrate a diverse suite of high-resolution observations (atmospheric, land surface, and infrastructure), diagnostic/predictive models, and civic engagement to provide new knowledge and deliver next-generation predictive tools. These tools will incorporate the effects of spatiotemporal drivers, atmospheric evolution, impacts, tradeoffs, and feedbacks, such that they can promote equitable policy interventions targeting extreme climate events, carbon dioxide emissions, and local air pollution within and across the Arizona urban corridor.
In this role the postdoctoral researcher will join the BNL Southwest Urban Integrated Field Laboratory team and conduct data analysis towards (i) understanding the feedbacks among urban infrastructure, waste heat, and extreme heat/weather events; (ii) assessing the spatiotemporal patterns of extreme heat and air quality impacts across the diverse urban landscape; (iii) evaluating the efficacy and social equity of mitigative actions across communities that include traditionally underrepresented groups, and feedbacks and trade-offs between the coupling of greenhouse gas emissions, climate impacts, and air quality. The team also leverages the observatories developed by BNL’s Center for Multiscale Applied Sensing (CMAS; https://www.bnl.gov/cmas/) to collect unique field data in Arizona. This position has a high level of interaction with an international and multicultural scientific community.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Design field deployment strategies aiming to evaluate and inform next-generation predictive urban climate models (e.g., through the use of OSSEs or ablation studies)
- Assess the performance of next-generation predictive urban climate models using observations
- Conduct observationally-based research into the urban boundary layer using big data (e.g., crowed sourced data or from mobile distributed networks).
- Develop new visualization strategies of observation data useful to scientists and stakeholders
- Write up and publish results in high-impact journals, in coordination with team leadership
- Assist the principal investigator/researcher with research by reporting on results at regular group meetings and during scheduled seminars and colloquia
- Participate in conferences and workshops, regular group meetings, and assist with notetaking
Position Requirements
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- PhD degree in data science, mathematics, meteorology, atmospheric sciences, or closely related fields (e.g., physics)
- Demonstrated experience with data science especially feature engineering, predictive modeling and data visualization.
- Knowledge and skills of software programming for data analysis. Demonstrated experience with Python, C++
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and independently
- Clear and concise oral and written communication skills
- Demonstrated track record of publication of research in high quality peer-reviewed journals and deliver of presentations
OTHER INFORMATION:
- BNL policy requires that after obtaining a PhD, eligible candidates for research associate appointments may not exceed a combined total of 5 years of relevant work experience as a post-doc and/or in an R&D position, excluding time associated with family planning, military service, illness or other life-changing events.
- Initial 2-year term appointment subject to renewal contingent on performance and funding
- This is an on-site position eligible for consideration of occasional telework at the discretion of the manager/dept chair
- Valid driver’s license
- Review of applications begins immediately. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled
- Research is under the direction of Dr. Katia Lamer
For more details
https://jobs.bnl.gov/job/upton/postdoctoral-researcher-urban-climate/3437/51807112336