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Position Announcement<br>
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Crop modeling postdoctoral position at NCAR<br>
National Center for Atmospheric Research<br>
Boulder, Colorado<br>
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Application deadline: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">May
16, 2015</span></span><br>
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The Terrestrial Science Section (TSS) at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, seeks a
postdoctoral researcher in crop modeling to interact with climate
modelers, land use modelers, and economic modelers to carry out
interdisciplinary research on the effects of climate, CO2, and
agricultural management on crop yields and its societal
consequences. Key functions in this position are to (1) conduct
research on crop modeling within the Community Land Model (CLM) as
part of the Community Earth System Model (CESM) and its application
to assessment of climate change impacts on agriculture; and (2) use
a combination of model experiments and observational data to
develop, validate, and apply the CLM-crop model. <br>
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The successful applicant will join an interdisciplinary research
section at NCAR that includes groups working on both the role of the
terrestrial biosphere in the climate system and interactions between
climate and human systems (<a
href="https://www2.cgd.ucar.edu/sections/tss-terrestrial-sciences"
target="_blank">https://www2.cgd.ucar.edu/sections/tss-terrestrial-sciences</a>).
The section has an organizational home within the Climate and Global
Dynamics Laboratory (CGD) and contributes to NCAR’s status as a
world-leading climate modeling center.<br>
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The position requires expertise in crop modeling, particularly in
the context of large-scale land surface modeling; experience working
with land surface and climate models; expertise working with large
geophysical data sets, including climate model output; and
proficiency writing scientific codes, especially in Fortran, with
experience working in a UNIX environment.<br>
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This is a full-time two-year term position. For a detailed job
description and instructions on how to apply, see <a
href="http://goo.gl/HlArln" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/HlArln</a>.<br>
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For more information on application procedures, contact Nancy Wade (<a
href="mailto:nwade@ucar.edu" target="_blank">nwade@ucar.edu</a>).
For more information on the position, contact Brian O’Neill (email:
<a href="mailto:boneill@ucar.edu" target="_blank">boneill@ucar.edu</a>)
or Gordon Bonan (<a href="mailto:bonan@ucar.edu" target="_blank">bonan@ucar.edu</a>).
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