Post-Doctoral Research Associate - Hydroinformatics
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Oak Ridge, TN
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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
- 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