Dalhousie University is searching for Postdoctoral Fellows and/or Research Associates to join the Global Ocean-Atmosphere Prediction and Predictability (GOAPP) network funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. Two positions are available. The successful candidates will collaborate with researchers at Dalhousie University and other universities in the network, and with scientists from Environment Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. They will have a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science, Physical Oceanography or a related discipline. They will also have experience in running and developing state-of-the-art ocean and/or atmosphere models or expertise in data analysis required for model-data intercomparisons. Knowledge of data assimilation is desirable.
GOAPP’s overall goal is to improve forecasts of the ocean and atmosphere on time-scales of days to decades, and space scales of tens of km (e.g., ocean eddies) to global. The successful applicants will focus on time-scales of days to seasons. The research involves the assimilation of a wide range of data types, including relatively new data streams such as temperature and salinity profiles from Argo floats, into ocean and coupled models using novel assimilation schemes.
Specific research activities include: enhancing ocean and coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling and data assimilation capabilities; identifying the sources of, and limits to, predictability in the ocean and coupled system; and undertaking and physically interpreting decadal scale reanalyses.
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Graduate and post-doctoral fellowships in ocean observation, modeling and data assimilation are available at Dalhousie University through a newly funded NSERC Strategic Network Grant (SNG). The SNG builds on the Ocean Tracking Network, a global, $168-million conservation project, which is conducting the world’s most comprehensive and revolutionary examination of the movement of marine life and its relationship to changing ocean conditions (http://oceantrackingnetwork.org).
We are currently seeking six graduate and three post-doctoral fellows with strong quantitative abilities who will participate in the implementation of an integrated observation and modeling system. The system will include cutting-edge ocean measurements (through sensors on ocean gliders, moorings and animals), physical and biological models, and advanced data assimilation, and is funded through the SNG. The initial geographic focus is the Northwest Atlantic Ocean and adjacent shelf seas.
- One graduate fellowship is available for analysis of mooring data (contact: Blair Greenan or Peter Smith ).
- One graduate fellowship is available for analysis of physical and bio-optical data from gliders (contact John Cullen ).
- One graduate fellowship is available for analysis of sensor data (lab and field) from fish (contact Christopher Taggart ).
- One graduate and one post-doctoral fellowship are available for the development of nested physical models (contact Jinyu Sheng ).
- One graduate and one post-doctoral fellowship are available for coupled physical-biological modeling (contact Katja Fennel ).
- One graduate and one post-doctoral fellowship are available for implementation of advanced data assimilation techniques (contact Keith Thompson )
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