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Career Opportunities
- Postdoc Position: Understanding low-cloud morphology feedback with energetic constraints –Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
- Fellowships in Earth System Prediction (5x) – University of Reading, United Kingdom
- Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modeling – University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- 2 Ph.D. Projects within the TBM-CaN Research Group – Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
Funding Opportunities
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Education & Training Opportunities
- 2nd International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM), Bologna, Italy
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.
Fellowships in Earth System Prediction (5x)
Location: University of Reading, United Kingdom
Deadline: 20 June 2025
The University of Reading is seeking Fellowship applicants to join the Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) research program. Applications are invited from early to mid-career researchers wishing to establish themselves as leaders in research, with opportunities to apply for Junior or Senior Fellowships, appropriate to career stage. These fellowships aim to empower ambitious researchers to consolidate their independence and position themselves as future leaders in the three AFESP research themes:
- Predicting the Earth system up to the sub-seasonal range,
- Challenges and opportunities in simulating the Earth system at the kilometer-scale, and
- Data assimilation for the Earth system across a range of scales.
The AFESP fellowships will have an expected duration of 3 to 5 years and it is envisioned that up to three fellows will be funded in the period 2025–2030 across junior and senior levels. Further details and full applicant guidance can be found at Fellowship Opportunities 2025 – Earth System Prediction.
Research Fellow in Forest Methane Modeling
Location: University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Deadline: 24 June 2025
Part of the DefMet project (Is Tropical Deforestation Contributing to the Rise in Atmospheric Methane?), this role will contribute to understanding upland forest methane exchange and how deforestation in shaping 21st century atmospheric methane concentrations. It builds on recent work by the PI (Gauci et al., 2024, Nature) and will integrate modeling methane exchange in upland trees with the LPJ-GUESS dynamic global vegetation model to identify past, current, and future changes in this new-found methane sink.
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.
2nd International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM)
Location: CNR Territorial Research Area Conference Centre – Bologna, Italy
Date: 1 – 5 September 2025
Registration Deadline: 30 June 2025
The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR-ISAC) and the University of Naples “Parthenope”, with the technical support from Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) are delighted to announce the 2nd International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM).
Topics
The core program of the school, based on the theory of satellite remote sensing, satellite observation exploitation and next-generation satellite missions for meteorological applications, will be enriched by new advanced themes focused on computational schemes based on artificial intelligence (AI), high performance computing (HPC) for numerical weather forecast and the groundbreaking digital twins of the Earth system. Addressing current global societal problems requires such a wide range of expertise from remote sensing, machine learning algorithm development, and advanced computational skills. A visit to the ECMWF’s new data centre and the excursion to the WMO Italian Climate Observatory “Ottavio Vittori” on the top of Mount Cimone (2165 m) will be included in the school activity.
Applicants
ISSM aims to train the next generation of scientists and operational meteorologists to consider remote measurements from space as a key point for understating and modeling meteorological phenomena. The initiative is open to Ph.D. students and postdoctoral fellows in physical, environmental, atmospheric, or related sciences, and early career operational meteorologists and researchers. Electronics, Aerospace and Astronautical Engineers who want to enrich their CVs are welcome.
