NOAA’s Ocean Acidification Program seeks qualified candidates for four postdoctoral positions to synthesize data in the major areas of the program’s investments. The National Research Council (NRC) Research Associateship Program (RAP) offers these positions and applicants should apply through the links below after registering for an account.
Environmental Change: A broad-scale analysis of ocean carbon observing data to understand ecosystem change across United States Large Marine Ecosystem
The selected postdoctoral candidate will conduct ocean acidification focused environmental data synthesis. The goal is to transition environmental observing data to useful products that inform modelers and target users and communities. Synthesis products could use historical and modern data, utilize data analyses to assess areas of vulnerability at regional to local scales across the United States Large Marine Ecosystems, improve the use of data from remote sensing tools for OA applications, or develop products that will address key scientific questions in the carbon observing community. Efforts should make significant use of repositories of NOAA funded and sponsored data.
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Biological Response: Comprehensive understanding of ecosystem and species sensitivity to ocean acidification and other stressors across United States Large Marine Ecosystems
The selected postdoctoral candidate will execute data synthesis efforts to understand potential species impacts caused by ocean acidification. The candidate may engage in any or several of the following concepts using repositories of NOAA funded and sponsored data:
- Quantify changes in physiological, developmental, and genetic processes in marine calcifying and non-calcifying organisms caused by ocean acidification and its interaction with other stressors.
- Data synthesis efforts to understand potential species impacts by ocean acidification in conjunction with other climate-related stressors.
- Explore the potential for acclimation and adaptation as a means to extrapolate from the responses of individuals to long-term ecosystem-scale impacts in the context of a changing ocean.
- Incorporate findings on individual species’ responses into stock assessment and other fishery resource models.
- Improve ecosystem model parameterization by synthesizing chemical observations with species-specific ocean acidification sensitivity data and response curves.
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Human Dimensions: Understanding human community vulnerability and resiliency to ocean acidification to inform viable adaptation and mitigation measures
The selected postdoctoral candidate will take on data synthesis efforts to understand the impacts of ocean acidification on human communities at a broad scale across all Large Marine Ecosystems in the United States. These efforts will use existing datasets to create or foster data products that support understanding of socio-ecological or socio-economic vulnerability as identified in OAP’s Regional Vulnerability Assessment Workshop Gaps section and the Interagency Working Group’s Ocean Chemistry Coastal Community Vulnerability Assessment.
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Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Data Synthesis: analysis of novel ocean data to inform idealized field research design
The selected postdoctoral candidate will conduct data synthesis efforts to support marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The candidate will utilize data from the OAP-managed mCDR research portfolio in addition to other available data to address at least one of the following topics:
- Understand and inform data-driven recommendations for field and modeling designs of mCDR pilot projects including measurement, monitoring, reporting and verification and environmental monitoring,
- Constrain pilot project design differences for pursuing mCDR for carbon removal or as an active ocean acidification mitigation approach, or
- Develop products that would inform the idealized regional locations to pursue mCDR. Efforts should make significant use of repositories of NOAA funded and sponsored data and should remain mCDR approach agnostic as applicable.
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Each position will remain open until a qualified applicant is selected. If no qualified applicant is identified by February 1st, the opportunity will close.
