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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Postdoctoral Position in AI/ML for Engineering Optimal Global-Scale Climate Interventions at the University of Victoria
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We are seeking an energetic, enthusiastic individual for a postdoctoral research position on using state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence
methods for optimizing global-scale climate interventions. The postdoctoral fellow will work collaboratively with AI researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC; Palo Alto, CA, USA) to create a climate response function that maps the regional (shortwave)
cloud radiative effect to the large-scale coupled (atmosphere and ocean) circulation and regional climate. The fellow will then use this climate response function to generate optimal Marine Cloud Brightening strategies (that, for example, preserve the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet or help avert other impending climate tipping points), and test these optimized strategies in E3SM, CESM2-WACCM, or another state-of-the-art Earth System Model. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">We expect the successful candidate to have the following background and expertise: </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Experience with running Earth System models (CESM, E3SM, or another state-of-the-art ESM); </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Experience with handling, processing, and analyzing large climate model output datasets (from CMIP5 or CMIP6);</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Familiarity with lower-order applied mathematical approaches for distilling the climate system response (such as fluctuation-dissipation, inverse methods, forcing-response
theory);</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Experience working as a collegial team member in an interdisciplinary group of scientists; and </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Commitment to meeting project deadlines. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><em>Some prior experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning methods is desirable, but not required.</em></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The postdoctoral fellow will be expected to publish manuscripts in high-quality peer-reviewed journals, and present their findings
at national and international scientific conferences. This position is supported by the University of Victoria through a collaborative project with PARC. The positions will be supervised primarily by Prof. Hansi Singh, head of the Climate Dynamics research
group in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria (</span><a href="https://hansialice.github.io/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://hansialice.github.io</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">),
and mentored by Dr. Kalai Ramea, head of the Complex System Analytics research area at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC;
</span><a href="https://www.parc.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://www.parc.com/</span></a><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">).
PARC, located at the heart of Silicon Valley (near Stanford University), has made ground-breaking contributions to the advancement of computing over the last 40 years (including the GUI, Ethernet, laser printing, ubiquitous computing, object-oriented programming,
and many others). </span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additional
expertise in Marine Cloud Brightening interventions will be provided by Dr. Philip Rasch and the MCB group at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The postdoctoral fellow will sit at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria on beautiful Vancouver Island
in British Columbia. </span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The position also includes one month of fully-funded expenses for travel to Palo Alto,
CA, for learning from, collaborating with, and networking with AI researchers at PARC.</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> As such, the position may provide an
excellent springboard for the candidate with an interest in transitioning to climate-relevant areas in industry and the private sector. Funding is available for 18 months (with year two funding subject to a performance review at the end of year one), with
a possibility of extension to 36 months, subject to availability of funding. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The position will include a generous salary and a full benefits package (including an allowance for relocation). We especially encourage
applications from members of groups experiencing barriers to equity in the physical sciences (women, visible minorities, LGBTQIA individuals, persons with disabilities). </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Minimum qualifications for this postdoctoral position include the following:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial;">-- A PhD in Atmospheric
Sciences, Physical Oceanography, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">-- Experience with scientific computing and high performance
computing on parallel architectures. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-family: Arial;">-- Familiarity with coupled atmosphere-ocean dynamics
in the extratropics.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please contact Prof. Hansi Singh (hansingh@uvic.ca) with questions. Interested applicants should submit (1) a cover letter
</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">describing your expertise and outlining why you are the ideal candidate for the position</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,
(2) an up-to-date CV, (3) two recent publications demonstrating the required background and expertise for the position, and (4) contact information for three professional references. Please send this material to hansingh@uvic.ca by
</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday Nov 19, 2021</span><span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
for full consideration. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Start Date: January 1, 2022 (latest February 1, 2022). </span></p>
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