<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i>Cluster Hiring:</i></b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>Postdoctoral Researchers and PhD Students Wanted for a New Satellite Project</b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We cordially invite applications for multiple positions to work in the areas of weather forecasting, climate modeling, satellite data analysis and comparison, to aid the science development of a new Earth-observing satellite. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><i>Research description</i></b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Canada will develop three instruments, TICFIRE (Thin Ice Cloud and Far InfraRed Emissions), ALI (Aerosol Limb Imager) and SHOW (Spatial Heterodyne Observations of Water), jointly known as </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(149,79,114)"><u><a href="https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/hawc/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(149,79,114);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">HAWC (High-altitude, Aerosols, Water Vapour and Clouds)</a></u></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">, for the space observations of climate change.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The successful candidates will join the HAWC Science Development Team (SDT) jointly funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Space Agency, to undertake a suite of activities that are crucial to developing the sciences and applications of the AOS/HAWC measurements. Several postdoctoral and PhD positions are still open in this round of the SDT recruitment. Each hire will be appointed at a university, to focus on one subproject of the working groups outlined below.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>1. Aerosols</b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Subproject 1 Stratospheric aerosol lifecycle </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Subproject lead: Professor</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:10pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Matthew Toohey <<a href="mailto:matthew.toohey@usask.ca" target="_blank">matthew.toohey@usask.ca</a>></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Positions open: one PhD </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Location: University of Saskatchewan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>2. Water vapour</b></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Subproject 2 SHOW assessment</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Subproject lead: Professor William Ward <<a href="mailto:wward@unb.ca" target="_blank">wward@unb.ca</a>></span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Positions open: one postdoc </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Location: University of New Brunswick</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times Ne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licant must have a PhD degree in atmospheric sciences, meteorology, physics, or a related discipline, received within the past 4 years. The candidate shall have the ability to conduct original and independent scientific research and is expected to have experience in one or multiple of these skills:</span></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">atmospheric modelling,</li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">satellite measurement simulation,</li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">analysis of model and/or satellite datasets,</li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">programming in Fortran, Matlab or Python on Linux systems.</li></ul><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The interested applicants are encouraged to directly contact the leads of the subprojects of their interest by email, enclosing:</span></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">a cover letter,</li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">a curriculum vitae, </li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">transcripts and academic records (B.Sc. and graduate-level), and </li><li style="margin-left:15px;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">names and contact information for at least two references.</li></ul><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">An applicant can apply for one or multiple of these subprojects simultaneously but is strongly recommended to clearly identify a primary subproject at the top of their application. The applications will be evaluated independently for each subproject. Evaluation of the applications will start once received and continue until all the positions are filled. </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Yi Huang (Lead-PI), McGill University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Kaley Walker (co-Lead), University of Toronto </span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Jean-Pierre Blanchet, Université du Québec à Montréal</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Adam Bourassa, University of Saskatchewan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Rachel Chang, Dalhousie University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Doug Degenstein, University of Saskatchewan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Robert Fajber, McGill University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Chris Fletcher, University of Waterloo</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Colin Goldblatt, University of Victoria</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Norman O’Neill, University of Sherbrooke</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Bob Sica, Western University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Susann Tegtmeier, University of Saskatchewan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Matthew Toohey, University of Saskatchewan</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">William Ward, University of New Brunswick</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Aldona Wiacek, Saint Mary’s University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Xiaoli Zhou, Dalhousie University</span></p><p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">of HAWC Science Development Team</span></p></div></div>