Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is looking for a modeler to work with WRF-Chem to investigate aerosol-cloud interactions for maritime clouds. In particular, using the background meteorology of the VOCALS field campaign to investigate the impact of emissions on maritime cloud development for scales ranging from climate model to cloud-resolving resolutions. The Weather Research and Forecasting…

The Water & Earth System Science Research Institute (WESS), located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, is currently seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study the impact of changing environmental conditions on the water cycle as well as on the fate of pollutants and nutrients in water, soil, and aquifers at the catchment scale. WESS is a joint collaboration…

The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is seeking an Associate Scientist for their Research Applications Laboratory (RAL). The Associate Scientist conducts testing and evaluation of Numerical Weather Prediction capabilities, including data assimilation and/or hurricane systems/techniques applied in real-world applications in support of Data Assimilation Testbed Center and Developmental Testbed Center activities at NCAR/RAL/Joint Numerical…

The United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS) is offering a PhD scholarship within the Climate Change, Hydro-Conflicts and Human Security project. The successful candidate will investigate the impacts of climate change in the Agadez and Tillabéri regions of Niger through field work, historical and stakeholder analysis, and contribute to the development…

Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on modeling of Sahel land surface/drought feedbacks within the EU-funded ClimAfrica project. The successful candidate will investigate the causes of the variability of Sahel vegetation over the past 50 years using the ORCHIDEE terrestrial biosphere model.…

The Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security Group (CCAFS) is currently seeking applications for three Regional Facilitator positions located in Niamey, Niger; Nairobi, Kenya; and Delhi, India. CCAFS is a program of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP). Their mission is to bring together the world’s…

The Climate/Carbon Science Group within the Atmospheric, Earth and Energy Division has an opening for a postdoctoral scientist in the area of cloud property retrievals and validation. The successful candidate will join the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ARM data infrastructure team to develop and evaluate a multi-year continuous ensemble cloud microphysical properties data set…

Anna C. Palmisano, PhD, Associate Director of Science for Biological and Environmental Research (BER), Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy, has requested nominations for Director of Climate and Environmental Sciences. She is accepting nominations (self-nominations also) via email until January 20, 2010. However, applications will be accepted until February 23, 2010. The division director…

Los Alamos National Laboratory is seeking candidates with a strong background in hyper‐spectral remote sensing, operating spectrometers, performing retrievals and integrating them to publish high profile papers. Candidates will gain data to inform areas of both the natural global carbon cycle and also the verification of greenhouse gas emissions. The position will require field‐work, data…

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is currently seeking candidates for a post doc to conduct research that will assess and improve cloud simulation in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model using novel radar and satellite-based observations. Simulations will be run on the New York Blue supercomputer, which is a 100-teraflop IBM Blue Gene/L massively parallel…