Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Hydroinformatics

Requisition Id 12725 

Overview: 

The Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory invites applicants for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Hydroinformatics.  The successful candidate will support the analysis of energy-water interactions by using both process-based modeling and data science to provide multi-disciplinary solutions to energy challenges that have impacts from local to national-scale.

Basic Qualifications:

• A PhD completed within the past 5 years in Agricultural/Civil Engineering, Environmental Science, Geosciences, Hydroinformatics or related background
• Experience with researching or using hydrological and nutrient transport processes, statistical methods in hydrology/environmental sciences, basin scale modelling experience using process-based hydrologic models
• Experience with data science methodologies to build simulation models encompassing data acquisition and refinement, geospatial analysis, model parameter determination, and model optimization.
• Strong scientific software development experience, with expertise in Python particularly preferred
• Record of scholarly research, publications, and presentations including publication of data and models
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in surface hydrologic, hydraulic, and reservoir management modeling
• Experience in using remote sensing data, statistics, spatial analysis, visualization and data management
• Experience with machine learning, particularly as applied to hydrology or other environmental systems
• Experience developing software for, and running software, in a cluster computing environment
• Experience with software version control systems, with GitHub or GitLab particularly preferred
• Experience working with interdisciplinary teams and demonstrated collaborative approach.
• Experience with community software development and open-source programming will be highly valued
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and participate creatively in collaborative teams across an organization and between organizations
• Demonstrated ability to function well in a fast-paced research environment, set priorities to accomplish multiple tasks within deadlines, and adapt to changing needs

This position will remain open for a minimum of 5 days after which it will close when a qualified candidate is identified and/or hired.

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