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style="font-family: Arial;">SSAI is an Equal Employment
Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. <span
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text-decoration: none;">Senior Research Scientist -
Biological Oceanography<br>
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<td class="CaptionStyle" style="color: black;
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bold; text-decoration: none;">Reference #:</td>
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style="font-size: 10pt;">SSAI is looking for a biological
oceanographer to conduct research directed at
understanding marine biogeochemistry and ecosystem
dynamics including short-term temporal variability on
regional and global scales. This research will emphasize
the marine carbon cycle and the interactions and feedbacks
between biological (e.g., primary production), chemical
(e.g., organic carbon and nutrient balances and fluxes),
and physical processes (river discharge, mixed layer
dynamics, circulation, etc.) and entails working with
field data sets, model results and satellite data products
from MODIS, VIIRS, and GOCI. The scope of the work will
include laboratory experiments, deployment on field
campaigns, processing of samples/measurements and data
analysis, and satellite data processing and analysis.
Research activities may involve the development and
evaluation of satellite products for existing satellite
sensors (geostationary or sun-synchronous) and in
preparation for planned mission (PACE) and future GEO-CAPE
(Geostationary Coastal and Air Pollution Events) mission.
This research is conducted in support of the NASA Ocean
Biogeochemistry Program<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
style="font-size: 10px;">(</span></span><a
href="http://science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/" style="color:
rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none;"><span
style="font-size: 10px;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/">http://science.hq.nasa.gov/oceans/</a></span></a>).<span
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style="font-size: 10pt;">Specific activities include:<br>
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a)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
style="font-size: 10pt;">Conducting laboratory
experiments and field measurements contributing to the
development of novel bio-optical algorithms that will
take advantage of advanced ocean color sensors with
ultraviolet, hyperspectral UV-Vis-NIR, and narrow
spectral band capabilities. </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"></span><span
style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">b)
Organizing field observations from various sources,
obtaining coincident satellite data, validating and
refining existing satellite algorithms and
developing/evaluating novel algorithms employing
hyperspectral and ultraviolet observations for specific
coastal regions and the global ocean.</span><br>
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style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">c)
Processing of satellite data to generate a series of
ocean biogeochemical products including constituent
absorption, carbon stocks and fluxes, phytoplankton
pigment stocks and functional type.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"></span><br>
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style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">d)
Application of in situ measurements and high frequency
ocean color data from GOCI to investigate the temporal
variability in coastal ocean biogeochemical dynamics and
satellite uncertainty required to discern temporal
variations.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px;"></span><br>
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style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px;">e)
Participation on a 2-4 week oceanographic research
cruises to collect and process water samples and deploy
optical instrumentation.</span></p>
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font-family: arial; font-size: 9pt; font-weight: normal;">Master's
degree in oceanography, marine science, remote4 sensing
science, or closely related field is required. An
undergraduate degree in the natural sciences is highly
preferred.<br>
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<span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span
style="font-family: Verdana;">Must have knowledge and
research experience in ocean color satellite remote
sensing and oceanography, including expertise in
conducting biological rate measurements such as primary
productivity and respiration, and in field deployment of
radiometric and inherent optical properties’
instrumentation and processing of those</span><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span
style="font-family: Verdana;">measurements.</span> <span
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?<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Programming
experience required including MATLAB and/or IDL.<br>
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Good communication skills are essential for presenting
the results in publications and in scientific meetings.</span></span></td>
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text-decoration: none;">Desired Qualifications:</td>
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style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span
style="font-family: Verdana;">Familiarity with SeaDAS is
preferred, as is experience working with large field
datasets.<br>
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Additional programming skills (beyond MATLAB and/or IDL)
are preferred.</span> </span></td>
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