Biometeorologist/Meteorologist/Atmospheric Modeler: NEON Post doc

Overview
The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON, Inc.) is a nonprofit science corporation dedicated to understanding how changes in climate, land use and invasive species impact ecology. Currently under design is the NEON project - an observatory comprising more than 60 environmental and biological monitoring locations distributed throughout twenty domains across the United States, Hawaii, Alaska & Puerto Rico. The observatory network will be the first of its kind designed to detect and enable forecasting of ecological change at continental scales over multiple decades.

Term of Position
This position will be funded for three years.

Summary:
The Fundamental Instrument Unit (FIU) consists of an automated suite of meteorological, atmospheric, soil and ecophysiological measurements. The position will support Science project development and management activities.
The FIU employs tower-based micrometeorological data products (incl. eddy covariance). Sources of uncertainties can be identified from flow statistics, topography, and land cover (source/sink strengths). This position provides a unique opportunity to develop state of the art models into the NEON design, for example, combining the traditional data quality assessment with topography, land cover, and analytic footprint modeling. This position directly contributes in making NEON’s flux measurements part of a world-class observatory through state-of-the-art techniques. All NEON scientists are stewards of this global resource.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Coordinate, design and execute innovative airshed analyses,
• Develop analytical procedures to quality assess micrometeorological processes through the spatial integration of variables, e.g., topography, land cover, and footprint modeling, and incorporate them into uncertainty analyses
• Coordinate FIU dataflows with other related NEON groups,
• Develop plans for evaluating and transferring research-grade programming into an operational and production framework

Required Experience:
• 1-5 years experience in meteorological-related work using physical and empirical models
• Experience with quantitative uncertainty analyses and time-series analyses,
• Experience delivering a final product from concept through testing to completion,
• Experience in programming meteorological analyses with diverse types of datasets
• Experience working in a collaborative scientific or engineering enterprise, and
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in written and oral forms

Education:
• Doctoral degree in an environmental science field (e.g., biometeorology, ecosystem science, micrometeorology, atmospheric modeling) or a related field.
• Recent PhD graduates may apply (post-doc position).

Preferred Experience:
• Working at the synoptic to local scale
• Some work experience with production data flows
• Knowledge of a wide range of meteorological related sensors, and measurement techniques and their associated data acquisition and analysis procedures,
• Design of data visualization tools,
• Ability to develop the dataflow designs for different and contrasting data types.

Skills and Abilities:
• Critical thinking, scientific writing and review,
• Ability to travel (infrequently), plus travel to conferences
• Quantification of spatial and temporal variation of data quality properties and processes
• Understanding of micrometeorological processes and ecosystem modeling,
• Demonstrated problem-solving and communication skills, and who can successfully apply experience, judgment, and creativity to both short- and long-term challenges,
• One who can create new opportunities within this field and use novel methods, analyses and approaches to tackle continental-scale research.
• Desired knowledge base of both instrument hardware and software development.

Documents Required to be submitted in order to be considered for the position include:
Curriculum Vitae and Cover Letter: In your cover letter, please include your experience with meteorological modeling, program testing, program languages, and any relevant field experience.

NEON Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, Minorities, Veterans and Disabled Persons are encouraged to apply.