Dear RegCNET Colleagues,

I would like to announce a postdoctoral research position opening at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab: https://lbl.taleo.net/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=78144&lang=en&sns_id=regcnet

The postdoctoral candidate would join a new project aimed at understanding the possible role of human influence on extreme weather statistics: the Calibrated and Systematic Characterization, Attribution, and Detection of Extremes (CASCADE) project.  Our research will advance our understanding of climate extremes and enhance our ability to attribute and project changes in their risk because of anthropogenic climate change. The position calls for an individual with experience in extreme weather/climate phenomena, climate modeling, and multiscale dynamics of the Earth’s atmosphere (hence why I am targeting the RegCNET).

The position entails using a combination of scaling theory, short-range forecasts, and in situ and satellite data in order to identify opportunities for improved extreme weather simulation. The postdoctoral candidate will have the opportunity to contribute to three other major ‘work packages’ within the CASCADE project, including: attributing and projecting changes in extreme events, application of novel statistical methods for analyzing climate extremes, and development of high performance computational pipelines. The candidate will also have the opportunity to collaborate with a multi-lab consortium toward development of advanced scale-aware representations of critical atmospheric processes. Ultimately, this effort will lead to demonstrable improvements in the target Earth system model and an improved understanding of climate extremes.

If you are interested, please apply at the link above.

With Kind Regards,
-Travis O'Brien-

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Travis O'Brien
Research Scientist, Earth Sciences Division
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
http://esd.lbl.gov/about/staff/travisobrien/