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Postdoctoral Scholarship Position

Employer
OSU/Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center
Location
Columbus, Ohio
Salary
Commensurate with the applicant’s experience
Closing date
Jun 17, 2021

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Discipline
Interdisciplinary/Other
Career Level
Postdoctoral
Education Level
PhD
Relocation Cost
Negotiable
Sector Type
Academia

Job Details

Postdoctoral Scholarship Position in Remote Sensing and Deep Learning of Energy and Water Resources

The School of Earth Sciences and the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, at the Ohio State University, are seeking one or more researchers, at the postdoctoral or associate levels, to join an interdisciplinary team working on projects in renewable energy and water resources combing remote sensing with advanced deep learning techniques (e.g., fully convolutional neural networks). The objective will be to identify and characterize specific Earth surface features at global scales using large volumes of multiple air and spaceborne remote sensing datasets and deep learning tools, as well as detect and measure changes through time. Tasks will include development of efficient training dataset construction workflows, utilizing ground truth collected by other members of our team, analysis surface feature morphology and remotely sensed characteristics and development and applications of deep learning methods.

Qualifications: A PhD in relevant Science and Engineering fields (including but not limited to Earth Sciences, Physics, Astrophysics, Computer Science and Engineering, Geography) with demonstrated prior experience in satellite remote sensing and/or deep learning. Proficiency in Python is essential for the latter. Excellent organizational and collaborative skills are required, and strong oral and written communication skills are expected.

Job Responsibility:  Expected to conduct independent, high-quality research; publish papers; and present work at national and international conferences.  

Start date: As soon as possible, but no later than September 1, 2021. Initial appointments are for 12 months with the possibility of multiple annual extensions based on performance and continued funding. 

Salary: Commensurate with the applicant’s experience and education. In addition, Ohio State provides a comprehensive benefits package ( https://hr.osu.edu/new-employees/employees/benefits-overview/ ).

To apply: Interested individuals should send a CV, a one-page statement of research interest, and the names and contact information of at least 3 references to Joachim Moortgat at moortgat.1@osu.edu.  Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position(s) are filled.

For more information: contact one of the 3 faculty on this project:

* Professor Ian Howat (howat.4@osu.edu), Director of the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, lead on remote sensing.

* Associate Professor Joachim Moortgat (moortgat.1@osu.edu), lead on deep learning.

* Professor Thomas Darrah (darrah.24@osu.edu), Director of the Global Water Institute, lead on geology and geochemistry. 

Departments:

The School of Earth Sciences: https://earthsciences.osu.edu

Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center: https://byrd.osu.edu

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The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law. 

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Named in honor of one of America's most famous explorers, the Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center of The Ohio State University is recognized internationally as a leader in polar and alpine research. The Center's research programs are conducted throughout the world. Research at the Center focuses on the role of cold regions in the global climate system, with major themes focused on: •climatic reconstruction of glacial and post-glacial times; •polar ice-sheets: dynamics, history and ice-atmosphere interactions; •high-latitude landform evolution, soils and hydrology; •geologic evolution of Antarctica; •investigations of ocean dynamics and environmental-chemical processes; •and the history of polar exploration. Scientists at the Byrd Center are reconstructing past climate by studying chemical records preserved in ice cores collected from glaciers in Greenland, Asia, North and South America, and Antarctica. Fossils provide important evidence for much older changes in climate and plant fossils collected in the Transantarctic Mountains indicate that parts of the southern continent were once forested. Environmental studies include programs in Alaska and Russia which are concerned with hydrologic and geochemical cycles in permafrost terrains and interactions with the biosphere. Modern processes such as the motion of the great ice sheets and the circulation of storm systems around Antarctica are being studied with sophisticated computer models and with satellite-borne sensors capable of imaging the surface through cloud cover and during the long polar night.

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