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Career Opportunities
- Faculty Member in Radar Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Infrastructure Panel (WIP) member, ESMO
- PhD Studentship on Causal Cloud Controlling Factors, University of Exiter, United Kingdom
- PhD Student, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Research Scientist Associate – Atmospheric Science (2x), University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
- Working Group Member for LHA Digital Earth, World Climate Research Programme
Funding Opportunities
- Fiscal Year 2026 Open Call – DOE Office of Science program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
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
Faculty Member in Radar Meteorology
Location: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Application Deadline: Review of applications begins late February 2026
The Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences (HAS) at the University of Arizona (UA)–a top-25, public, R1, and land grant university–invites applications for an open-rank, tenure-track faculty position in Radar Meteorology (broadly defined) to begin August 2026.
Besides candidates for assistant professorship, exceptional candidates will also be considered at the Associate or Full professor level. HAS seeks areas of research and teaching that contribute to the advancement of process-level understanding of storm systems (e.g., mesoscale convective systems, monsoon convection, atmospheric rivers) and extreme weather, combining observations (particularly radar), modeling, and analysis. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to: ground-based measurements using radars and other instruments, connection of these measurements to spaceborne measurements, kilometer-scale modeling of storm systems and extreme weather, and innovative use of AI/ML for observational data analysis and modeling.
More details about this position and applications are available at: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/24646?c=arizona.
Contact: Prof. Xubin Zeng (Search Committee Chair; xubin@arizona.edu)
Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Infrastructure Panel (WIP) Member
Location: N/A
Application Deadline: 30 January 2026
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Infrastructure Panel (WIP) is a panel of the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) of the ESMO Core Project. The WIP is charged with coordinating and promoting a robust and sustainable global data infrastructure in support of the development, dissemination and evaluation of Global and Regional Climate Model Intercomparison Project (MIP) data through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and other WCRP and community modelling activities as resources are available. This coordination role includes interaction with infrastructure delivery partners, most notably the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), ensuring that the technical requirements of infrastructure contributors to meet CMIP project infrastructure delivery are met.
This call invites the community to nominate candidates (including self-nomination) who have well demonstrated skills and experience in any of the following:
- Cloud computing infrastructure
- Lossy compression
- User experience and interface development
- Standardisation tools e.g., CMOR, pycmor, XIOS
- Support for machine learning models
- Applications for other topics within the WIP’s remit may also be considered
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.
Location: University of Innsbruck, Austria
Application Deadline: Review of application will start on 30th December 2025
The Atmospheric Turbulence group of the Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN) at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) invites applications for a PhD position on aircraft observations of mountain boundary layer and its turbulent structure.
The PhD student will work with data from in-situ instrumentation and a wind lidar on board three research aircraft that conducted flights over the European Alps during the TEAMx (http://www.teamx-programme.org/) observational campaign in 2025. The goal is to gain a better description of the mountain boundary layer (MoBL) and a better understanding of how the different thermally and dynamically driven wind systems and their interactions shape the MoBL structure.
The successful candidate will work as part of the TEAMx project and will be co-advised by Dr. Ivana Stiperski, Dr. Manuela Lehner and Dr. Alexander Gohm.
Working Group Members for LHA Digital Earth
Location: N/A
Application Deadline: 2 January 2026
The WCRP Digital Earth Lighthouse Activity (LHA)is seeking nominations (including self-nominations) for Working Group (WG) members for each of it’s three main activities:
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.
Deadline Pre-applications: 23 December 2025 (required)
As part of the Fiscal Year 2026 Open Call (DE-FOA-0003600), the DOE Office of Science program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) is accepting funding applications in the thematic research topics of atmospheric process research and earth-energy systems modeling.
The major thematic research topics for BER under this Funding Opportunity are:
- (a) Microbiome Research
- (b) Atmospheric Process Research
- (c) Environmental Systems Process Research
- (d) Earth-Energy Systems Modeling
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.
