What are the responsibilities and job description for the Postdoctoral Researcher - Urban greenhouse gas emissions modeling and mapping position at Northern Arizona University?
Join an exciting Northern Arizona University research team (https://gurneylab.nau.edu/) in beautiful high-elevation Flagstaff, Arizona doing cutting-edge research on quantifying GHG and local air pollution emissions at multiple scales from the building to the globe. This research uses existing systems (Vulcan - https://vulcan.rc.nau.edu/ and Hestia – https://hestia.rc.nau.edu) developed in the Gurney Lab over the past 20 years. This postdoctoral position will focus on very high-resolution GHG emissions quantification in urban areas in the US using “bottom-up” techniques. We are currently working in the urban areas of Baltimore, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Tucson, Flagstaff, and Indianapolis but will be adding multiple new urban domains. We use a variety of techniques to perform this quantification include engineering modeling, statistical inference, and more recently, machine learning. We combine many datasets from local, state, and federal agencies in our system and collaborate with investigators across numerous fields including urban science, economics, political science, atmospheric science, and social science. Our work is aimed at improving monitoring and measurements of greenhouse gases and enabling GHG emissions mitigation.
Candidates must have received a PhD in a field related to the position (spanning Informatics, Civil Engineering, Urban Science, Ecological/Environmental Sciences, Atmospheric Science, Data Science, Geography) from an accredited college or university. The applicant will be expected to publish peer-reviewed journal articles and work in a team environment, effectively communicating with the research team.
Job duties include data collection on emitting assets, developing/improving model systems for flux estimation, and coding within the existing Vulcan/Hestia software to deploy the flux estimation. Postdoctoral scientist will be responsible for an asset-level and gridded inventory output (in conjunction with the existing Vulcan/Hestia systems output) and will also supervise a graduate student in assisting in all aspects of the project.
Salary : $65,000 - $72,000
