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Career Opportunities
- Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Science Officer for Africa
- Baltic Earth Steering Group – Early Career Researcher
- 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
Funding Opportunities
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Education & Training Opportunities
- 2nd International School on Satellite Meteorology (ISSM), Bologna, Italy
- 11th Baltic Earth Summer School, Askö, Sweden
- Summer School: Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB), Vienna, Austria
Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Science Officer for Africa
Location: RIfS, fully remote position
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
The RIfS Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is looking for a Science Officer, based in Africa, to coordinate activities with regional foci in Africa. This key coordination role requires someone with a working knowledge of physical climate science who is comfortable with engaging a wide range of disciplines, individuals, projects, and organizations across the continent, and who is already active in relevant work. The Science Officer will also be the first fully remote member of the RIfS International Project Office (IPO). All serious candidates should begin the process of identifying a local organization in their region of Africa that could partner with the RIfS IPO to host them if their application were successful.
Baltic Earth Steering Group Member
Location: N/A
Deadline: 15 April 2025
Baltic Earth is currently in the transition to its second phase, and would like to take the opportunity to rejuvenate the Baltic Earth Steering Group (BESSG) with early career scientists.
Please have a look at the Baltic Earth website, and also the page describing the duties of the BESSG, and consider whether you could be a new member, or if you know a young colleague who may be interested in such an interesting task.
https://baltic.earth
https://baltic.earth/organisation/steering_group
If you are interested, please send an e-mail of interest to markus.meier@io-warnemuende.de.
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: TBD
The Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) Fellowship Program will be launched in early 2025.
The fellowships will align with the AFESP science plan, while also encouraging innovative proposals that leverage AI-based approaches to environmental prediction. These include exploring new methods for evaluating prediction skill, reliability, and inherent limitations. AFESP aims to support up to five fellows in the period 2025-2030. With an expected duration of 3–5 years, these fellowships aim to empower ambitious researchers to establish their independence and position themselves as future leaders in the field.
11th Baltic Earth Summer School
Location: Askö Laboratory, Sweden
Dates: 18–25 August 2025
Deadline for Application: 1 May 2025
Students will be introduced into fundamental processes of the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice and land surface with relevance for the climate system. The course will deal with coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models, climate change, the greenhouse gas effect and other drivers of regional climate, dynamical downscaling, and the variability of circulation and regional climate. Additionally, the possible impact of climate change on the marine ecosystem including biogeochemical cycles will also be studied.
With the help of teachers from several disciplines, a holistic Earth System approach will be presented although the main focus of the course is on the physical aspects of changing climate. In addition to lectures, tutorials, exercises and literature studies the course will give the students the opportunity to discuss the learned topics further during group exercises.
Summer School: Runoff Predictions in Ungauged Basins (PUB)
Location: Vienna, Austria
Dates: 30 June–4 July 2025
Registration Deadline: 1 May 2025 for scholarship application
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, based on the book, “Runoff Prediction in Ungauged Basins: Synthesis across Processes, Places and Scales”, 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 attend.
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.
