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Career Opportunities
- Faculty Member in Radar Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
- Director of International Project Office for the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
- Working Group Member for LHA Digital Earth, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
- Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Infrastructure Panel (WIP) member, ESMO
- PhD Student, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Director, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility, PNNL, , Richmond, WA, USA
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
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)
Director of International Project Office for the Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment
Location: Harwell, United Kingdom
Application Deadline: 13 February 2026
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) invite applications for the position of Director of the International Project Office for Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX-IPOC), to be hosted jointly by the European Space Agency (ESA) and University of Cape Town (UCT).
he Director leads the international project office ensuring that it operates efficiently to actively serve the needs of CORDEX and its global community, in alignment with and under the guidance of the CORDEX Science Advisory Team (SAT).
The Director is responsible for:
- The recruitment and management of the IPO staff, budget and operations.
- Fulfilling other appropriate duties as required or requested by the CORDEX SAT.
- Coordinating the management and administration of CORDEX plans and other project related documentation.
- Preparing reports and presentations for and of meetings and project-related events to support the CORDEX co-chairs in representing CORDEX within WCRP and beyond, including at any relevant meetings and conferences.
- Preparing the annual internal IPO budget (contract limit of liability funding from ESA) and the WCRP CORDEX budget (for the approval of the SAT).
- Supporting the SAT by organizing the SAT meetings, the agenda and minutes in close collaboration with the CORDEX Co-chairs
- Participating in, and coordinating with Co-chairs or CORDEX SAT members, meetings relevant to CORDEX such as CORDEX SAT meetings, WCRP JSC and other leadership meetings.
- Supporting and facilitating international coordination between the CORDEX domains, institutes and individuals.
- Building relationships, in close collaboration with the SAT, with the impacts and adaptation, and end user communities to ensure their needs are addressed by CORDEX activities.
- Facilitating and coordinating collaboration with parent core project, RIfS, relevant WCRP and other international programmes.
- Promoting capacity development particularly in developing regions and among early career scientists.
- Mobilising financial and in-kind resources from various sources to cover CORDEX activities and additional IPOC staff.
- Overseeing active dissemination and communication of the work of CORDEX, in coordination with the SAT
- Participating in the representation of CORDEX at relevant national and international meetings.
- Ensuring the IPO fulfils its terms of reference under the overall guidance of CORDEX governing bodies and in consultation with the WCRP Secretariat.
- Seeking resources to maintain adequate funding for the IPO by writing, and supporting, grant proposals.
Director, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement User Facility
Location: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richmond, WA, USA
Application Deadline: 8 February 2026
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Director reports to the Associate Laboratory Director for Earth and Biological Sciences and provides overall scientific leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the ARM enterprise, which spans a consortium of nine Department Of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories. The Director guides scientific priorities; leads complex operations across multiple observatories and platforms (ground-, mobile-, and aerial-based); stewards data quality and critical infrastructure; and collaborates closely with DOE, other DOE user facilities, national laboratories, academic institutions, and the broader scientific community. This role requires strong scientific credibility, a forward-looking scientific vision, and demonstrated organizational leadership and management acumen to advance ARM’s mission, ensure sustainable operations, and deliver high-impact science and capabilities.
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
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 1 February 2026 (extended)
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:
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.
