Jobs:Job-00108
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Post-doctoral research position in coastal Arctic hydrologic modeling
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Tennessee, United States
Start reviewing process: 7 February 2020
Start reviewing process: 7 February 2020
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Position: Post-Doctoral Associate
Start reviewing process: 7 February 2020
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Purpose: The Climate Change Science Institute within the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) seeks a postdoctoral researcher with experience in permafrost hydrology and/or computational hydrology to support a newly funded project aimed at understanding how coastal Arctic watersheds are changing in a warming climate, how they interact with the Arctic ocean and ice, and what these changes mean for multisector dynamics including infrastructure, transportation, energy, and national security.
Major Duties/Responsibilities: Your primary responsibilities will be to develop, calibrate, and evaluate coupled models of permafrost hydrology in the coastal Arctic, and then use those models to advance the field’s understanding of how exports of water, sediment, and nutrients from rivers into the coastal ocean will change as permafrost warms. You will join a multi-disciplinary team of investigators, including experts in land surface, riverine, ocean, land and sea ice, and multisector dynamics modeling, who are developing and evaluating numerical models of the coupled Arctic coast. You will develop hypothesis-driven numerical experiments, bringing data and hydrologic process understanding together with models to evaluate these hypotheses, and lead papers describing those findings. You will also have the opportunity to shape how coupled coastal systems are modeled in next generation Earth System Models, which play a critical role in science relevant to both society and policy.
Of interest for: Terrestrial Working Group Coastal Working Group Cyberinformatics and Numerics Working Group Hydrology Focus Research Group Critical Zone Focus Research Group Human Dimensions Focus Research Group Ecosystem Dynamics Focus Research Group
