Solar/Heliospheric Physics Research Associate Scientist/Programmer Position in at the University of Colorado CIRES and NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

 

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder has an immediate opening for a Research Associate supporting NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.  This person will be responsible for developing and maintaining operational solar and heliosphere models used by the Space Weather Forecast Office to predict solar wind conditions and arrival times of CMEs at Earth.  

The immediate focus of this position will be to maintain and improve the Wang-Sheeley-Arge and Enlil models currently running operationally on the National Weather Service super computers.   The successful applicant will work with researchers and modelers who develop the space weather models as well as the forecasters and customers who use the output and products from the models. This position is fully funded but there will be opportunities to conduct solar/heliospheric research. 

 

Applicants are required to have a Ph. D. in space physics or similar scientific discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience.   Applicants should have demonstrated experience in scientific research including the development and use of space weather models which incorporate the MHD approximations. Applicants for this position must also have significant computer programming skills and a demonstrated capacity for working with large computer codes and super computers.   

 

Informal inquiries may be made to Rodney.viereck@noaa.gov and/or Alysha.Reinard@noaa.gov

 

Further job details may be found at: http://cires.colorado.edu/contact/jobs/job-openings/ciresswpc-scientistprogrammer-research-associate-swpc-6/