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Employment & Opportunities

Two Positions Available with WWF-US Arctic Team - World Wildlife Fund

The WWF-US has several openings on their Arctic team based in Alaska. The WWF has been active in Alaska and the broader Arctic region for more than 30 years. The team partners closely with indigenous communities, tribal and state governments, businesses, fishermen, scientists, universities and other conservation groups.

1. Managing Director: responsible for setting strategic direction and leading Arctic conservation work, including managing the staff team, maintaining effective working relationships with a variety of stakeholders, and fundraising – functionally what would be an Executive Director role in a smaller organization.
2. Marine Biologist: lead projects to mitigate the wildlife impacts from shipping traffic, and related noise, oil spills, collisions, growing Arctic infrastructure and other emerging issues.

Please contact Tamara Evans with CEA Consulting for questions: tamara@ceaconsulting.com

Data Manager - Professional Research Assistant - The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder conducts collaborative research with NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). CIRES is accepting applications for a Data Manager - Professional Research Assistant to work with the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology. The successful applicant will be responsible for a variety of duties related to managing paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic data received from scientists worldwide and making these data publicly available and reusable. Ideal applicants will have at least a bachelor's degree, along with experience in working with environmental data and in programming (R, Python or SQL). The ability to work collaboratively within a team of research scientists, data managers, and database/software developers is a must.

Complete position information and application instructions are available here.

Postdoc in Climate Modelling - University of Bern, Switzerland

There is an opening of a Postdoctoral Position at the University of Bern in the area of Late Pleistocene Climate Modelling.

Research is carried out in the framework of the groups of Climate and Environmental Physics and the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research. You will be embedded in a highly international and vigorous academic working environment which offers unique professional opportunities.

The work will focus on the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT) about 1 million years ago when the ice age cyclicity slowed down by about a factor of 2.5. You will explore the stability of warm, intermediate, and cold climate states and use and further develop the Bern3D model, an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity.

Please see this page for more details.

Applications are accepted until this position is filled. Your application can be submitted here.

Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Planning, Management and Governance Course - McGill Department of Bioresource Engineering

The McGill Department of Bioresource Engineering offers an 8-week online certificate course in Integrated and Adaptive Water Resources Planning, Management and Governance
 
Course dates: September 27, 2021 to November 22, 2021

Learn how to

• Improve water resources management through the implementation of effective integrated management tools and techniques.
• Strengthen the principles of governance, planning, adaptive management and capacity building in local, regional and transboundary water resources regimes.
• Provide participants with the competencies to develop skills and knowledge required for urgent needs in the water resources sector.

Interested in applying?

• Application deadline: June 1, 2021 to September 30, 2021

To assess your suitability for this course, your application must include the following:

• a CV or other documentation which outlines your educational background and professional experience
• a motivation letter for enrolling in the course

Apply now!  For more information about the online course, please visit this webpage.

News & Events

Webinar: Can We Cut Emissions Fast Enough? With Joyce Msuya, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UNEP Deputy Executive Director

The School of Public Policy & Global Affairs is hosting a special webinar with Joyce Msuya, UN Secretary-General and UNEP Deputy Executive Director.

Title: Can We Cut Emissions Fast Enough? How to Respond to the Climate Crisis Without Damaging the Future Prosperity of Developing Countries
Date & Time: Wednesday, June 9th at 9:30am
Register in Advance

The climate crisis is one of the most challenging problems humanity has ever faced. Join us for a talk by Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Deputy Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), as she discusses how rich nations can respond to the planetary crisis in a way that avoid harming the development opportunities available to low and middle income countries in the Global South. Joyce will also highlight some of the transformational solutions available to both high and low-income countries as they seek to limit a global temperature rise to well below 2C in line with the Paris Agreement.