<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">I'm happy to share that we are looking for a postdoc for a three-year project using AI and remote sensing to identify ocean heat content variability and fronts.</span><span class="gmail-white-space-pre" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);white-space:pre;line-height:inherit"> </span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-size:14px;font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);line-height:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"></span><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9);font-family:-apple-system,system-ui,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Fira Sans",Ubuntu,Oxygen,"Oxygen Sans",Cantarell,"Droid Sans","Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The candidate will join an international team led by me and X Prochaska from UC Santa Cruz. More details are below and <a href="https://recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01832">here</a>. The position will remain open until filled.</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Maike Sonnewald</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><h3 id="gmail-description" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;line-height:1.1;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:16.8px;text-transform:uppercase">Position description</h3><div class="gmail-section" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(21,40,45);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The Ocean Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applications for the position, <em style="box-sizing:border-box">Postdoctoral Scholar in Ocean Sciences</em>. The postdoctoral scholar will work under the direction of Professor J. Xavier Prochaska of the Astronomy & Astrophysics Department at UCSC with co-mentoring by Professor Maike Sonnewald at UC Davis. As part of the Collaborative Research: Leveraging AI to Observe and Predict the Drivers of Mixed Layer Heat Inventory Variability project, the successful candidate will be expected to conduct forefront research on topics related to applying artificial intelligence techniques to oceanographic problems, particularly focused on understanding ocean fronts and mixed layer heat inventory variability.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">The selected candidate will have access to high-resolution ocean model outputs, remote sensing data products, and high-performance computing resources. They will work on developing and applying novel AI techniques, including Vision Transformers, to analyze and predict ocean dynamics across scales. The position includes opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration with experts in physical oceanography, remote sensing, and machine learning.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">This position will be based at University of California, Santa Cruz and will work closely with collaborators at UC Davis and other partner institutions.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Applicants with any of the following qualifications are strongly encouraged to apply:</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Scientific computer programming and circulation models</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Physical oceanography using models, theory, observations, or some combination</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">Advanced statistics, supervised and unsupervised machine learning</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">The hiring unit will not sponsor employment-eligible immigration statuses for this position.</span></p></div><div class="gmail-section" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(21,40,45);font-family:Lato,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><span style="box-sizing:border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