<div dir="ltr"><div><a href="https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/CIRES-Environmental-Data-Science-Innovation-and-Impact-Lab-ESIIL-Post-Doctoral-Research-Scholar/66761">https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/CIRES-Environmental-Data-Science-Innovation-and-Impact-Lab-ESIIL-Post-Doctoral-Research-Scholar/66761</a></div><div><div class="gmail-js-accordion gmail-accordion" role="tablist" aria-multiselectable="true" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:Roboto,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:17px"><button class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__header" type="button" aria-controls="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-0" aria-expanded="false" role="tab" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-0_tab" aria-selected="true" style="font-size:24px;margin:0px;overflow:visible;display:block;font-family:inherit;font-weight:300;border-radius:0px;border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(229,229,229);width:860px;padding:9px 10px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left"> Job Summary</button><div class="gmail-js-accordion__panel gmail-view__field--jobSummary gmail-accordion__panel" aria-multiselectable="false" aria-labelledby="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-0_tab" role="tabpanel" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-0" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;opacity:0;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;max-height:0px"><h3 class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__title" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;width:1px"></h3><div class="gmail-jobDetailDescription gmail-accordion__panel__pusher" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:20px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;line-height:24px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;border:0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px"></p></div></div><div style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"></div></div></div><button class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__header" type="button" aria-controls="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-1" aria-expanded="true" role="tab" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-1_tab" aria-selected="false" style="font-size:24px;margin:0px;overflow:visible;display:block;font-family:inherit;font-weight:300;border-radius:0px;border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(229,229,229);width:860px;padding:9px 10px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left"> Who We Are</button><div class="gmail-js-accordion__panel gmail-accordion__panel" aria-multiselectable="false" aria-labelledby="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-1_tab" role="tabpanel" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-1" aria-hidden="false" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;opacity:1;padding:0px;border:1px solid rgb(229,229,229)"><h3 class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__title" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;width:1px">Who We Are</h3><div class="gmail-jobDetailDescription gmail-accordion__panel__pusher" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:20px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;line-height:24px"><div style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;border:0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px">At<a href="https://cires.colorado.edu/" title="https://cires.colorado.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,109,177);line-height:24px"> CIRES</a>, more than 900 environmental science professionals work to understand the dynamic Earth system, including people’s relationship with the planet. CIRES has partnered with NOAA since 1967, and our areas of expertise include weather and climate, changes at Earth’s poles, air quality and atmospheric chemistry, water resources, solid Earth sciences, and more. Our vision is to be instrumental in ensuring a sustainable future environment by advancing scientific and societal understanding of the Earth system.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 15px;border:0px;padding:0px;line-height:24px">The <a href="https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fesiil.org%2F&data=05%7C02%7CYasmine.Ortuno%40Colorado.EDU%7C30326c6f4229496e753108dde0ede484%7C3ded8b1b070d462982e4c0b019f46057%7C1%7C0%7C638914034525760653%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wHOZfJ3oUrqR3vUyFBidhYBXHQ44JDdCoCjTWKzEfZA%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL: https://esiil.org/. Click or tap if you trust this link." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:border-box;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,109,177);line-height:24px">Environmental Data Science Innovation & Impact Lab (ESIIL)</a> is an NSF-funded data synthesis center led by the University of Colorado Boulder in collaboration with NSF’s CyVerse at the University of Arizona and the University of Oslo. ESIIL’s mission is to empower a broad community to accelerate open Environmental Data Science. ESIIL is part of CIRES and enables a global community of environmental data scientists to leverage the wealth of environmental data and emerging analytics to develop science-based solutions to solve pressing challenges in environmental sciences. ESIIL’s research community generates discoveries and novel approaches through 1) transformative team science, 2) innovative tools and collaborative cyberinfrastructure, 3) data-science education and training, and 4) building collaborative communities. These activities advance the frontier of environmental data science, a rapidly evolving discipline bridging the computational, biological, environmental, and social sciences.</p></div></div></div><button class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__header" type="button" aria-controls="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-2" aria-expanded="true" role="tab" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-2_tab" aria-selected="false" style="font-size:24px;margin:0px;overflow:visible;display:block;font-family:inherit;font-weight:300;border-radius:0px;border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(229,229,229);width:860px;padding:9px 10px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-align:left"> What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be</button><div class="gmail-js-accordion__panel gmail-accordion__panel" aria-multiselectable="false" aria-labelledby="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-2_tab" role="tabpanel" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-2" aria-hidden="false" style="box-sizing:border-box;overflow:hidden;opacity:1;padding:0px;border:1px solid rgb(229,229,229)"><h3 class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__title" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px;padding:0px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;width:1px">What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be</h3><div class="gmail-jobDetailDescription gmail-accordion__panel__pusher" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:20px;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;line-height:24px"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;line-height:24px">(80%)</strong> Develop and implement an environmental data science project that uses open data, tools, and cyberinfrastructure to address frontier research questions in environmental biology. Examples of data-driven projects may include: cross-scale or cross-site data harmonization and analysis to explore ecosystem patterns, artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in ecology, open science ethics and data sovereignty for environmental data, data-intensive exploration of evolutionary processes, data intensive translation to resilience technologies, or other topical area in environmental biology that crosses the data, natural, and social sciences.</li><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left">Use open or available spatial and temporal data in creative ways to develop a data-driven research project. Examples of environmental data sources include remote sensing, observatories, biorepositories, citizen science, field-based collections, modeled and synthetic data, genetic data, social data, or other. Sovereign and protected data shall be treated with special considerations that follow the CARE data principles.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left">Leverage cloud, or other high-performance computing, resources to harmonize and analyze big, complex environmental data, and/or develop open AI-based pipelines.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left">Contribute to the open, reproducible science and education objectives of ESIIL, which include creating and publishing well-documented datasets and codes, FAIR-compliant code workflows, or other outputs that will serve the larger EDS community and other audiences.</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left">Effectively share research results with colleagues and the broader science community through peer-reviewed publications, presentations, and other science products.</li></ul><li style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px;text-align:left"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bold;line-height:24px">(20%)</strong> Work with the ESIIL team and network on collaborative projects, such as with working group(s), hackathon teams, or summit participants, to advance environmental data science.<br style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:24px"></li></ul></div></div><button class="gmail-js-accordion__header gmail-accordion__header" type="button" aria-controls="accordion-ku0pl2n33l-3" aria-expanded="true" role="tab" id="gmail-accordion-ku0pl2n33l-3_tab" aria-selected="false" style="font-size:24px;margin:0px;overflow:visible;display:block;font-family:inherit;font-weight:300;border-radius:0px;border-top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