Employment & Opportunities

Meteorologist Position - WSP

WSP is currently seeking a Meteorologist to join our Operational Weather Forecasting Team, providing 24/7 meteorological services to terrestrial-based and marine-based clients. Our Met-Ocean Services Group has over 20 years of experience providing meteorological and oceanographic services in North America and various international locations. We are weather, climate and ocean experts, mitigating financial and safety risk for clients whose businesses are sensitive to high-impact weather events or severe ocean conditions.

We are looking to hire candidates into one of our two main offices (St. John’s, NL and Ottawa, ON), although we are open to hiring exceptional candidates to work remotely anywhere in Canada or the United States. The position will be supporting forecasting clients across North America and worldwide with detailed consultation and customized weather services. This is a permanent, full-time position with a rotating day / night shift role (50% nighttime work and 50% daytime work). If you have a passion for weather analysis and forecasting and wish to forecast for some of the areas with the most extreme weather in North America, then we would love to hear from you! Although weather forecasting will be your primary responsibility, we offer numerous other opportunities to get involved in, such as climate forecasting, climate risk assessment, programming, weather instrumentation support, business development, project management and others.

Candidates can apply directly via our link.

Assistant Professor of Oceanography (2 Positions) - University of Rhode Island

The coastal ocean is undergoing dramatic transformations due to both local anthropogenic pressures and global climate change. The resilience of coastal marine regions is dependent on interactions among a dynamic set of components, including complex biological systems (including humans), shifting chemical baselines, and altered land-sea-air interactions. The University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO) seeks applicants for two faculty positions at the assistant professor level to address changes occurring in coastal regions across the globe. Successful applicants will develop research and teaching programs that address the fundamental underpinnings of coastal ocean systems and apply them through transdisciplinary studies to coastal processes and resilience. New faculty will join GSO during the onset of a $170 million investment by Rhode Island in redevelopment of URI’s Bay Campus, including a new, $35 million ocean engineering and large-scale tank facility and the commissioning of a new, state-of-the-art regional class UNOLS research vessel R/V NARRAGANSETT DAWN.

GSO encourages applications from researchers whose work directly intersects or has capacity to contribute to coastal processes and resilience. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Biological oceanographers with a focus on middle and upper trophic level biology in the coastal water column and/or benthos.
• Physical oceanographers with a focus on processes in estuarine or continental shelf regions, ranging from circulation to submesoscale and mixing.
• Chemical oceanographers with a focus on natural or anthropogenic biogeochemistry focused on coastal regions, including coastal resilience, organic geochemistry, and trace elements to fundamental disciplinary topics.
• Geological oceanographers with a focus on coastal hazards, history and rates of coastal change, and coastal processes (including sea level change, sediment transport, erosion and deposition, human coastal modification, seafloor morphological change, continental margin tectonics, and geodesy).

We particularly encourage applicants who use tools and approaches that encompass remote sensing/optics, machine learning, process-based modeling and data assimilation, bioinformatics, instrument development and use of new and innovative autonomous platforms.

The GSO recognizes that oceanographers do not reflect the diverse spectrum of humanity and that oceanography will be strengthened by contributions from a broad range of perspectives. GSO strives to be a leader in diversity, equity, and inclusion – and to change the way the STEM world approaches these issues with real commitments to representation, social, and environmental justice. We seek innovation and inspiration for the next generation of ocean scientists, educators, and explorers. As such, we particularly welcome candidates from groups that are historically underrepresented, marginalized, or excluded in our field and/or have demonstrated leadership towards building an equitable and inclusive scholarly environment.

To apply for the position and for more details, please click here.

Apply to be an Adjudicator - MURC, UBC

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is looking for adjudicators to evaluate presentations! Please distribute this information and application form to any faculty members, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows within your organization. The conference will be held in person with a virtual component on March 18, 2023. If you are interested in adjudicating or know anyone else who may be, please fill out the application form by Saturday, February 18 at 11:59 PM.

News & Events

IOF SEMINAR, “Salmon Futures: Science and Stewardship of Salmon Systems in an Era of Rapid Change” - February 10, 2023

Climate change-amplified marine heatwaves now pose an imminent threat to the world’s tropical coral reefs. On almost all coral reefs, however, climate change is superimposed on a suite of local anthropogenic stressors, and available evidence suggests that these impacted reefs can fare better than protected ones during heatwaves, leading to the ‘protection paradox’.

In this talk, we’ll journey an atoll in the central equatorial Pacific that endured heat stress of unprecedented duration during the 2015-2016 El Niño-induced 3^rd global coral bleaching event. Dr. Baum will present ecosystem-scale results of the impacts of prolonged heat stress, and discuss the role that local stressors played in modulated heat stress impacts as well as distinct mechanisms of coral resilience.

Speaker: Dr. Jonathan Moore, Professor and Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Management, Simon Fraser University

Time: Friday, February 10, 2023 - 11:00am  - 12 noon. Hybrid: In-person and over ZOOM

UBC members, alumni, and all others, please RSVP at here.