Climate Hazard Center - Assistant Project Scientist Geography Department

The Climate Hazards Center (CHC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, seeks a highly motivated assistant project scientist.

The Assistant Project Scientist will work with CHC data developers to build extensive and rapidly-updated archives of key weather observations; develop procedures for quality controlling these data archives; develop procedures for blending and interpolating in situ observations with remotely sensed estimates; collaborate with the team to develop improved and expanded gridded temperature, humidity, humid heat, and precipitation archives, along with interoperable weather and climate forecasts;

conduct additional modeling, which could include impact models focused on crop water requirements and vegetative health; assist in the development and maintenance of UNIX-based systems for automatic data ingest, processing, modeling, data output, and mapping; and make substantial scientific and scholarly contributions to the CHC's research efforts, especially in regards to accuracy and skill of dataset estimates.

• Develop and maintain extensive, rapidly updated archives of weather observations and forecasts.
• Design and implement procedures for quality control, validation, blending, and interpolation of in situ weather observations.
• Collaborate with the CHC team to develop improved and expanded gridded archives of temperature, humidity, humid heat, and precipitation, as well as interoperable weather and climate forecast products.
• Support the ingest, validation, interpolation, and analysis of weather data obtained from automated 3D Printed Automatic Weather Stations (3D-PAWS).
• Conduct additional modeling and analysis, including impact models focused on crop water requirements and vegetative health.
• Provide figures, analysis, and written reporting of climate indicators during cropping seasons in food‑insecure regions to support early identification of weather‑ and climate‑related risks to crop production and food security.
• Assist in the development and maintenance of UNIX‑based systems for automated data ingest, processing, modeling, data output, and mapping.
• Serve as a liaison between the CHC and the campus/department IT group (GRIT) to identify, communicate, and facilitate solutions to issues with the group's compute environment.
• Contribute substantially to CHC’s scientific mission through scholarly research, publications, and operational products.