<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">The New York City Department of
Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) manages a system of 19 interconnected
reservoirs that supply drinking water to over 9 million consumers in New York
City and surrounding areas. We seek to hire a postdoctoral researcher who will
contribute to our efforts to develop, test and apply models of this water
supply system. NYCDEP’s integrated suite
of climate, watershed, reservoir, and system operations models are used to
investigate the effects of climate change, floods and droughts, land use
change, watershed management, and reservoir operations on the NYC water supply. Our one and two-dimensional reservoir models
simulate hydrodynamics and the dynamics of temperature, turbidity and
eutrophication in our reservoirs. We are
working to extend these reservoir models to allow simulation of organic carbon,
and in particular, the portion of organic carbon compounds that are precursors
to disinfection byproducts (DBPs), including the trihalomethanes and haloacetic
acids regulated by the Safe Drinking Water Act.
These models will simulate the autochthonous production, degradation,
fate and transport of precursors in reservoirs.
We seek a postdoctoral researcher with experience in the environmental
chemistry of precursors, and in the development and application of precursor models. Candidates with experience in one or more of
the following areas are of interest:</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:115%;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">1.<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Use
of optical measurements, such as absorbance or emission sensors, as proxies for
direct measurement of DBP formation potential.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Application
of models to simulate fate and transport of precursors under extreme hydrologic
conditions (floods and droughts) that may occur in our watersheds under current
and future climate conditions.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Use
of water quality models to guide the optimal operation of a system of water
supply watersheds and reservoirs.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Development
and application of alternatives to process-based reservoir models, including
machine learning or artificial neural network approaches.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-Default" style="text-align:justify;line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">The selected candidate will be
expected to present work at scientific meetings; publish in peer-reviewed
journals, and contribute to NYCDEP reports.
Hiring will occur though the Institute for Sustainable Cities at Hunter
College, City University of New York (CUNY), which has a contract to support
NYCDEP’s modeling program. Work will involve collaborative efforts with an
interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers, and will provide the opportunity
for leadership in specific aspects of the research. The candidate will work with
NYCDEP staff and other CUNY researchers on a day to day basis. </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Default" style="line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Position details: </span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Starting
date: Fall 2019 to Winter 2020; actual start depends on candidate availability. Initial appointment will be for 18 months; extension
may be offered depending on progress.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Location:
NYCDEP office in Kingston, NY, 100 miles north of NYC in the Hudson Valley
region.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">This
is a full time position with employee benefits, and is open to eligible
candidates of any nationality. If
necessary, visas can be arranged through the City University of New York. </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-Default" style="line-height:115%;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">The candidate should have the following qualifications and
experience:</span></b></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Ph.D.
in civil or environmental engineering, water resources, environmental
chemistry, hydrology, or a related discipline.</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Experience
in handling, statistical analysis, and presentation of large environmental
datasets, and with software to facilitate such work</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Experience
with writing software code to implement new or modified models</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Software
experience such as MatLab, Fortran, Python, shell scripting, and/or R. </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Demonstrated
ability to communicate research results to the scientific and water quality
management community through peer-reviewed papers, conference presentations and
reports. </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%">Ability
to work in an interdisciplinary team environment. </span></p>
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curriculum vitae electronically to: </span></p>
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Environmental Protection </span></p>
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