<div dir="auto">Please see info below about this job opening in the air quality modeling group at US EPA.  Please note the close date of this posting is July 11.</div><div><div class="gmail_quote">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The Air Quality Modeling Group (AQMG) is responsible for
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">understanding and applying physical and chemical atmospheric processes with numerical simulation models to support policy and regulatory decisions in the Office
 of Air and Radiation (OAR) and provides leadership and direction on the full range of meteorological and air quality models and other mathematical simulation techniques used in assessing control strategies and source impacts on national, region, and local
 air quality levels. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Specifically, AQMG leads or performs the following functions:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span>·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      
</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Provides leadership and expertise in understanding physical and chemical atmospheric processes related to characterizing criteria and toxic pollutant
 ambient concentrations and deposition.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Provides leadership and expertise in applying photochemical, dispersion and other mathematical simulation models and techniques that are
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#282828">integral<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt">
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</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.3pt"> </span>regulatory<span style="letter-spacing:1.3pt">
</span>decisions<span style="letter-spacing:1.2pt"> </span>by the Agency for multiple<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
</span>pollutants,<span style="letter-spacing:1.9pt"> </span>sources,<span style="letter-spacing:1.05pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.95pt"> </span>spatial<span style="letter-spacing:1.35pt">
</span>scales<span style="letter-spacing:.8pt"> </span>(e.g.,<span style="letter-spacing:.65pt">
</span>global,<span style="letter-spacing:1.75pt"> </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">national,<span style="letter-spacing:1.55pt">
</span>regional,<span style="letter-spacing:1.4pt"> </span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt">
</span>local or neighborhood).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Provides leadership<span style="letter-spacing:1.5pt">
</span>and<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>direction through<span style="letter-spacing:.7pt"> technical
</span>guidance<span style="letter-spacing:1.15pt"> </span>on<span style="letter-spacing:.6pt">
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</span>use, and evaluation<span style="letter-spacing:.75pt"> </span>of<span style="letter-spacing:-.15pt">
</span>models<span style="letter-spacing:.9pt"> </span>to meet Clean Air Act and related federal requirements for assessments of source impacts and control strategies by the EPA as well as other federal agencies; multi-state organizations; state, local, and
 tribal agencies; research institutions; and stakeholder organizations.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Collaborates with the Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the atmospheric research community to promote the development and evaluation of new models,
 techniques, and atmospheric research studies that meet policy and regulatory needs (e.g., NAAQS reviews and implementation, risk and exposure analyses, cost-benefit analyses, future projections of air quality levels, etc).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#282828">Collaborates across modeling community on modeling<span style="letter-spacing:.55pt">
</span>studies<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>to<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt">
</span>assess<span style="letter-spacing:-.1pt"> </span>future<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt">
</span>air<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> </span>quality<span style="letter-spacing:-.5pt"> and the sensitivity of control programs and policies
</span>under<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt"> </span>alternative<span style="letter-spacing:-.25pt">
</span>climate<span style="letter-spacing:-.6pt"> </span>regimes and conducts global to regional-scale modeling to identify and evaluate linkages of regional air quality and climate.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</span></span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#282828">Collaborates with the EPA’s ORD, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and
 other scientific and stakeholder organizations to ensure best practices for the development and use of meteorological and atmospheric chemistry models for use in general and Air Quality Management in particular.
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