Employment & Opportunities

PhD Position - Arctic fresh water and ocean circulation

Alfred-Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AW)

AWI has a vacant PhD position in "Large Scale Changes in Arctic Fresh Water and Upper Ocean Circulation" available. Tasks will include: 

• Data processing and synthesis, including statistical techniques (e.g., optimal interpolation)
• Analysis of observations and model output using oceanographic theory
• Combining different data products to obtain ocean velocity
• Using output from other research to extend the analysis beyond the Arctic as well as temporally
• Presenting the results at conferences and publishing in scientific journals

Requirements: 

• A good Master’s degree or the equivalent in physical oceanography or environmental science
• A good understanding of ocean dynamics and observation
• Willingness to join oceanographic research expeditions and collaborate with colleagues
• Good knowledge of at least one high-level programming language (e.g., MATLAB, Python)
• Experience in marine field work and in using reanalysis or model products are assets
• Good communication skills in English, both oral and written

Application Deadline is September 10th. For more information and to apply, please visit the job listing. 

Positions in High Impact Weather Research

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is seeking skilled candidates to conduct cutting-edge high impact weather research. This work supports the innovation of observational technologies and techniques, improving cloud and precipitation microphysics knowledge through process studies (involving field, aircraft and lab work), and how improved physical understanding of high impact weather is represented and predicted in prediction systems. The work additionally supports the use of observations (radar, satellite, upper-air) for operational data assimilation, nowcasting, post-processing and verification of high impact weather.

Incumbents would be working in the multi-disciplinary team of atmospheric scientists, engineers, technologists, and information technology scientists within the Meteorological Research Division of ECCC based in Toronto but with work locations throughout Canada. Research programs address Aircraft, Radar, Cloud Physics, and Nowcasting & High Impact Weather. This team is responsible for delivering outputs that are policy/regulatory in nature, as well as technology-transferred solutions for operational deployment (24/7/365) in real-time monitoring and prediction systems.

ECCC is particularly interested in individuals who have experience with one or more of the following: meteorological observation technologies and techniques and their links with high impact weather, international and/or multi-agency field experiments, machine-learning and artificial intelligence, observation quality control and data processing. Programming experience using C, C++, Python in a collaborative development environment would be an added advantage.
Please contact Dr. Daniel Michelson ( ) for any inquiries.