<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:inherit;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:-webkit-standard;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0cm;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
@page WordSection1
{size:612.0pt 792.0pt;
margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style>
</head>
<body lang="EN-NZ" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">The Centre for Atmospheric Research at the School of Earth and Environment, University of Canterbury, New Zealand is pleased to announce the availability of <b><u>1</u></b> PhD student scholarship
funded by Royal Society of New Zealand. This PhD project is part of a larger research program that is aiming to better understand and model near-surface atmospheric turbulence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><u><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">PhD Project</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">: </span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Deep learning applications
to study turbulent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Project Link:</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg9m7RJCRiAqK208TVKQWHhyzvbD5jy-/view?usp=sharing" title="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg9m7RJCRiAqK208TVKQWHhyzvbD5jy-/view?usp=sharing">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg9m7RJCRiAqK208TVKQWHhyzvbD5jy-/view?usp=sharing</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Starting date:</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> Successful candidates to start their PhD projects in 2022 or earlier<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Scholarship:</span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black"> NZ $27,000 stipend per annum plus a domestic tuition fees waiver for 36 months (excludes student services
fee and insurance) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Conference </span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">travel and registration costs are supported for at least one international trip<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Journal paper publications </span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">from student research outputs are strongly encouraged and financially supported<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">We are looking for a highly motivated and research driven candidate who has experience in machine learning, preferably with deep learning architectures and applications. The candidate will be working
with a multidisciplinary team to develop scientific concepts in the area of deep learning applications for atmospheric turbulence. Candidates with good atmospheric boundary-layer meteorology and/or data science backgrounds are strongly encouraged to apply.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><u><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Research program scope</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">: </span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Our research
group is expanding in new areas of physics-informed data science. Specifically, we are interested in advancing our spatiotemporal understanding of atmospheric surface-layer turbulence and how it interacts with roughness boundary layers like urban canopies,
vegetation and forests. Large Eddy Simulations (LES) have been the state-of-the-art for the simulation of ABL turbulence, and our group has extensive experience in this area along with field-scale observations of turbulence. More recently, we have developed
high speed thermography as a spatiotemporal measurement technique to scan and derive surface turbulence associated with wind-surface interactions. Our objective is to combine our knowledge of the atmospheric boundary layer and the state-of-the-art deep learning
models through physics-informed deep learning, and learn/predict/enrich near-surface turbulence information from the observational and LES data. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">The PhD candidate will work with a team of atmospheric scientists, data scientists, and experts in machine learning. The University of Canterbury is collaborating with international partners from
the Institute of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Freiburg, Germany, and the Department of Environmental Sciences, at the University of Basel, Switzerland. As a result, we have accrued a large data library of atmospheric turbulence observations
using high speed time sequential thermography of various landscape surfaces, data from traditional sonic anemometry, and data from large eddy simulation for urban and vegetated canopies.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><i><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Please email your cover letter, CV and a copy of your academic transcripts to</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;word-spacing:0px">
<b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">Dr. Marwan Katurji, </span></b><span style="font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif;color:black">email: <a href="mailto:marwan.katurji@canterbury.ac.nz"><i>marwan.katurji@canterbury.ac.nz</i></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">-- <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Marwan Katurji, PhD</span></b><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Rutherford Discovery Fellow</span></i></b><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> in
Atmospheric Dynamics</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">School of Earth and Environment</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Room:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
228, 2nd floor Beatrice Tinsley Bldg.</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
+64 3 3694287 ext. 94287</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Email:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> <a href="mailto:marwan.katurji@canterbury.ac.nz" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:inherit;color:#0563C1">marwan.katurji@canterbury.ac.nz</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Mobile:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
+64 212049534</span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/spark/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=4127440" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:inherit;color:#0563C1">www.canterbury.ac.nz/spark/Researcher.aspx?researcherid=4127440</span></a></span><span style="color:#201F1E;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
</div>
</div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>