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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Postdoctoral Associates: Sea-Level Rise Projections and Climate Risk Assessment & Management</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280" title="https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280" data-outlook-id="5c79e95e-6351-4e07-9066-75d81bca60ec" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The Rutgers University Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences invites applications for highly motivated, creative postdoctoral associates with interests in (a) sea-level
rise projections and/or (b) climate risk assessment and management. The candidate will join the
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://www.earthscipol.net/" title="https://www.earthscipol.net/" data-outlook-id="15a569c2-353a-4773-9364-fa8770d5300e" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Rutgers
University Earth System Science & Policy Lab (earthscipol.net)</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, under the direction of Professor Robert Kopp, and its collaborators in the
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="http://coastalhub.org/" title="http://coastalhub.org/" data-outlook-id="d725217c-ec34-42a8-9d50-0001d567704f" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Megalopolitan
Coastal Transformation Hub</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> (MACH), the
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://sealevel.nasa.gov/" title="https://sealevel.nasa.gov/" data-outlook-id="cb8bc412-c22f-4031-9383-ee75afd203df" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">NASA
Sea-Level Change Team</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, and the
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://www.impactlab.org/" title="https://www.impactlab.org/" data-outlook-id="798dbf5b-11c4-4d22-9b0e-4b8aa3288341" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Climate
Impact Lab</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Research in the Earth System Science & Policy Lab addresses four interrelated questions: First, how has sea level changed in the past? Second, how may sea level change in the
future in response to climate forcing? Third, how do climate and sea-level change impact the economy and human well-being? Finally, how can climate and sea-level science more effectively support climate risk management under deep uncertainty? The Lab’s sea-level
projections are highly used; the Framework for Assessment of Changes To Sea-level (FACTS;
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://www.fact-sealevel.org/" title="https://www.fact-sealevel.org/" data-outlook-id="0a2205da-1a9c-44e8-8f01-67c2be560450" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.fact-sealevel.org/</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">),
an open-source sea-level projection framework initially developed by the lab, supported the integration of projections for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Working in coordination with the FACTS development team at the Climate Impact Lab and with collaborators in the NASA Sea-Level Change Team, the postdoctoral associate may have
the opportunity to contribute to the development of the scientific community’s next generation of sea-level rise projections, following a workplan to be developed at the June 2026 AGU Chapman Conference on Updating Usable Projections of Sea-Level Rise (</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://www.agu.org/chapman-sea-level" title="https://www.agu.org/chapman-sea-level" data-outlook-id="b2c61b6a-e6b9-47c9-9635-e21560a602d2" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.agu.org/chapman-sea-level</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">).
In this context, the integration into global, relative, and extreme sea-level projections of knowledge related to potential high-impact events of poorly-known likelihood, such as ice-sheet or AMOC collapse, is of particular interest, as is the integration
of observational constraints. Interest in or experience with the development of emulators of complex models is also valuable. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The postdoctoral associate may also have the opportunity to work with colleagues in MACH and the Climate Impact Lab on topics such as the valuation of coastal climate risk
information, the use of market mechanisms such as insurance to manage coastal climate risk, and the simulation of adaptation decision-making under deep uncertainty. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The candidate requires:</span></p>
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<li style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">PhD in oceanography, atmospheric science, geophysics, economics, computer science,
statistics, or a related discipline at time of appointment;</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Familiarity with literature relevant to sea-level projections and/or coastal climate
risk;</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; text-transform: none;" role="presentation">Strong coding skills, including experience in Python;</span></li><li style="font-family: Aptos; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
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<span style="text-transform: none;">Excellent organizational and communication skills.</span></div>
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The position will be based at Rutgers-New Brunswick. The position is a grant-funded annual position. Renewal for up to three years is possible subject to performance and availability of funding. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Rutgers University provides equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry,
nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait,
genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply. For additional information please see the Non-Discrimination Statement at the
following web address: </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement#_blank" title="http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement#_blank" data-outlook-id="fd65239a-692c-49db-a93e-cbaaf317a3fa" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://uhr.rutgers.edu/non-discrimination-statement</a></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, contact information for three references, a C.V., a writing sample, and a link to a GitHub repo or other coding sample at
</span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><u><a href="https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280" title="https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280" data-outlook-id="6362547c-8949-4ff0-b97f-67eb80f5a323" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/268280</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville, serif; font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.
Review of applications will begin about February 21.</span></p>
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