<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement in Gif sur Yvette (near Paris), in France, seeks a research scientist to develop <span lang="EN-US" class="">new inversion methods based on local scale atmospheric dispersion models to quantify CH<sub class="">4</sub> emissions from industrial facilities.</span></b><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class=""><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><b class=""><u class="">Context:</u></b></span></font></div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Comprehensive information about greenhouse gas emissions is essential for decision makers to track the effectiveness of emission control policies in the context of the Paris Agreement on Climate. To answer that need, LSCE launches new research program known as TRACE (</span><a href="http://trace.lsce.ipsl.fr" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">http://trace.lsce.ipsl.fr</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">) funded for four years by the French National Research agency and corporate partners <span class="" style="text-transform: uppercase;">THALES ALENIA SPACE</span>, SUEZ and TOTAL. The TRACE program will develop new GHG emissions measurement methods, going from the scale of industrial sites up to national and global CO<sub class="">2</sub> and CH<sub class="">4</sub> budgets, using satellite-mounted infrared spectrometers instruments and arrays of low-cost sensors deployed in situ, on the surface, around emitting industrial sites.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Job description - Responsibilities and tasks:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Apply fine scale atmospheric dispersion models to simulate the local transport of CH<sub class="">4</sub> and other tracers emitted from various industrial facilities,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Develop an associated inverse modeling framework assimilating near field atmospheric CH<sub class="">4</sub> measurements within and around the industrial sites, to quantify the CH4 emissions from these sites,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Test the framework for concrete case studies in the project, and use it to support the atmospheric measurement strategy and derive statistics of uncertainties in the estimate of emission factors,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Interact regularly with the scientists of TRACE that are responsible for the measurements, and with the engineers and technicians from corporate partners to ensure that the model developments and experiments are in line with site specific emission and transport features,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Lead and contribute to the writing of peer-reviewed publications with the results from TRACE,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Contribute to research projects connected to the objectives of TRACE,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Promote the project results at international conferences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Required skills/experience</span></u></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Experience with local scale dispersion models (LES or other Eulerian or Lagrangian CFD models)<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Knowledge in atmospheric sciences; the additional knowledge in statistical inversion and data assimilation techniques would be an asset<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Programming (ideally in Fortran and Python),<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Ability to work collaboratively with a team of researchers and engineers,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18pt; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">-<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Previous involvement in research projects,</span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 1pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Education</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">: PhD in climate, environmental or atmospheric sciences<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Location</span></u></b><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">: </span></b><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Laboratoire des Science du Climat et de l’Environnement</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"> (</span><a href="https://www.lsce.ipsl.fr" class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">https://www.lsce.ipsl.fr</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">) </span><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Contract duration</span></u></b><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">2 years renewable</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Starting date:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; 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as soon as possible. It will remain open until filled.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">Salary:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">
Salary includes full social and health benefits, adjusted for work experience. <o:p class=""></o:p></span></p><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">How to apply:</span></u></b><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;">
Applicants should submit a complete application package by email to Grégoire Broquet, Thomas Lauvaux and Philippe Ciais:
<u class=""><span class="" style="color: blue;"><a href="mailto:contact-trace@lists.lsce.ipsl.fr" class="">contact-trace@lists.lsce.ipsl.fr</a></span></u>. The application package should include (1) a curriculum vitae, (2) statement of motivation and (3) names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of at least two references.</span></div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri;"></span></div></div></body></html>