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Career Opportunities
- Postdoc Position: Understanding low-cloud morphology feedback with energetic constraints –Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
- Director of the CLIVAR International Project Office, Ocean University of China (OUC), Qingdao, China
- 2 Ph.D. Projects within the TBM-CaN Research Group – Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
- PhD Studentship on Causal Cloud Controlling Factors, University of Exiter, United Kingdom
- Research Scientist Associate – Atmospheric Science (2x), University of Wyoming, Laramie (WY), USA
- Early to mid career members of the WMO Scientific Advisory Panel, World Meteorological Organisation
Funding Opportunities
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Education & Training Opportunities
- 8th International Baltic Earth Winter School on “Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea Region”
- Summer School on Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins
Post Doc Res Assoc or Research Scientist Associate – Atmospheric Science (2x)
Location: University of Wyoming, Laramie (WY), USA
Application Deadline: Review of applications will begin November 6, 2025, and will continue until the position is filled.
The University of Wyoming department of Atmospheric Science is seeking to fill two postdoctoral/associate research science positions in one of the following fields: Aerosol cloud interactions, cloud radiative effect and cloud feedback, atmospheric chemistry,extreme weather events, or planning observational deployments. The hired candidate will join an existing team to work on the on the Perturbed parameter ensemble Regression Optimization Center for Earth system model Evaluation and Development PROCEED; https://github.com/PROCEED-ESM project. PROCEED is a Department of Energy (DOE) supported initiative at the University of Wyoming and University of Hawaii at Manoa focused on reducing uncertainty in Earth System Model (ESM) predictions at the seasonal to decadal scale.
Open call for early to mid-career members of the WMO Scientific Advisory Panel
Location: N/A
Application Deadline: 26 November 2025
The Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) is the scientific advisory body of WMO, providing forward-looking strategic advice on emerging challenges and opportunities related to the Organization’s mandate in weather, climate, water and related environmental and social sciences for the purpose of long-term planning. SAP provides advice and develops recommendations for the WMO Congress and Executive Council on scientific and technological matters, enhances the global standing and visibility of WMO as a leading scientific organization, and promotes science vision.
At present there are two vacant positions on SAP. Recognizing the value of new perspectives from the next generation of scientists, we are seeking applications from early to mid-career professionals across all areas of science relevant to the SAP mandate to fill these positions and to engage in SAP activities. In particular, SAP is interested in strengthening experience in the following disciplines:
- Tipping points, unprecedented events and irreversibilities in the climate system;
- Big data for addressing global environmental challenges;
- Artificial intelligence for seamless numerical weather-climate prediction and insights across the value cycle.
Director of the CLIVAR International Project Office
Location: Ocean University of China (OUC), Qingdao, China
Application deadline: 30 November 2025
The Ocean University of China (OUC) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) invite applications for the post of Director of the CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean – Variability, Predictability, and Change) International Project Office (ICPO), based in Qingdao, China. The director will lead a team, define the IPO’s identity and fulfill its mandate. This is a full-time position available immediately.
CLIVAR, launched in 1995, is one of the six core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). CLIVAR’s mission is to understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the climate system with emphasis on ocean-atmosphere interactions.
The ICPO provides overall support for the planning and implementation of CLIVAR priorities and ensures appropriate international coordination and communication between the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) and groups within the CLIVAR structure, and collaboration with related WCRP and other international programs.
PhD studentship on Causal Cloud Controlling Factors
Location: University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 8 January 2026
This project is one of a number that are in competition for funding from the NERC Great Western Four+ Doctoral Training Partnership (GW4+ DTP). The GW4+ DTP consists of the Great Western Four alliance of the University of Bath, University of Bristol, Cardiff University and the University of Exeter plus five Research Organisation partners: British Antarctic Survey, British Geological Survey, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the Natural History Museum and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. The partnership aims to provide a broad training in earth and environmental sciences, designed to train tomorrow’s leaders in earth and environmental science. For further details about the program please see http://nercgw4plus.ac.uk/.
This project aims to provide a better understanding of how cloudiness affects, and is affected by, environmental factors called “cloud controlling factors”. Success of this goal will be of benefit to a wide range of scientific communities, because the interactions of clouds with the mean climate is consistently the most difficult aspect of climate change to estimate correctly.
Postdoc Position: Understanding low-cloud morphology feedback with energetic constraints
Location: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD), Paris, France
Deadline: Open until filled
The French ANR MOBYDYC project aims to improve our physical understanding of low-cloudfeedback by building observable and energetically-constrained feedback mechanisms based on boundary-layer dynamics processes. To this end, it focuses on the spatial morphology of low clouds simulated by high-resolution models and observed by satellites, with an emphasis on stratocumulus. MOBYDYC is a project with two major objectives: to detect climate-change signals of low-cloud morphology changes, and to attribute them to changes in boundary-layer dynamics expected with global warming. A joint approach between analytical approaches, high-resolution simulations and observations is used.
The post-doc proposal addresses a part of the MOBYDYC project, namely the analysis of low-cloud morphological feedback constrained by energy conservation.This task can integrate different approaches and tools such as global climate models, global cloud-resolving models, large-eddy simulations, and observational data.
2 Ph.D. Projects within the TBM-CaN Research Group
Location: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Deadline: None specified
The Terrestrial Biosphere Modelling in CaNada (TBM-CaN) research group seeks interested Ph.D. students to apply for two Ph.D. projects, Projecting Carbon and Ecosystem Co-Benefits of Forest-Based Climate Solutions in Canada and Measuring Soil Greenhouse Gas Fluxes across Boreal and Arctic Disturbance Gradients.
The TBM-CaN research group applies an interdisciplinary approach – combining empirical ecology and field work with global modeling of the terrestrial biosphere and climate change – with the goal of improving climate change projections informing climate policy and decision-making from local to global scales. New members will join a dynamic research group with the opportunity to develop strong working relationships with academic and government scientists across Canada.
8th International Baltic Earth Winter School on “Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea Region”
Dates: 23–27 March 2026
Location: Park Inn by Radisson Central Tallinn, Estonia
Application Deadline: 15 January 2026
The interdisciplinary 8th International Baltic Earth Winter School on “Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea Region” will provide a broad overview of ongoing research activities on the Earth system in the Baltic Sea region and will cover the processes and variability from micro- to global scale and from short-term to climate timescale. All compartments of the Earth system, such as the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, land surface, and terrestrial and marine ecosystems will be discussed.
PhD students and early career scientists (postdocs) from the Baltic Sea region are invited to apply
Summer School on Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins
Dates: 22–26 June 2026
Location: Vienna, Austria
Application Deadline: 1 May 2026
This summer school is devoted to runoff prediction in ungauged basins (PUB), i.e., predicting water runoff at locations where no runoff data are available. This lack of data presents considerable challenges to catchment managers who require information on water flows for decision making. This course will provide hydrologists with the theory and methods to address this critical challenge.
Masters and Ph.D. students researching catchment hydrology and practicing hydrologists who are challenged by making predictions in the absence of runoff data are invited to apply.
