The Ohio State University is hiring a Post Doctoral Scholar to contribute to a NASA-funded project focused on building a Carbon Monitoring System for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. You will enhance watershed models and develop remote sensing tools to assess the carbon cycle impacts of agricultural practices.
What You'll Do
- Enhance the Soil and Water Assessment Tool - Carbon (SWAT-C) to better represent coupled terrestrial-aquatic carbon cycling at the watershed scale
- Develop cropland tillage and cover crop maps over the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed by leveraging multi-source remote sensing data and field observations
- Integrate newly developed tillage and cover crop maps and other remote sensing data to constrain the SWAT-C model
- Assess impacts of historical and future agricultural conservation on carbon sources and sinks in terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems
- Collaborate to prioritize critical ecosystem restoration projects that maximize synergies while limiting trade-offs among climate and other social and environmental goals
What We're Looking For
- A PhD in a related field
Nice to Have
- Experience with developing or applying ecosystem models such as SWAT-Carbon, CLM, EPIC, DNDC, or DayCent
- Experience with analysis of geospatial data and time series data
- Experience with GIS/RS and database environments like ArcGIS and Quantum GIS
- Experience with machine learning and statistical learning
- Experience working with large, diverse datasets
- Familiarity with statistical modeling, ideally Bayesian statistics
- Proficiency in Fortran, R, Python, Matlab, or other common languages (e.g., C/C++)
- Strong computational skills
- Strong oral and written communication skills
Technical Stack
- Models: SWAT-Carbon, CLM, EPIC, DNDC, DayCent
- GIS/RS: GIS/RS, ArcGIS, Quantum GIS
- Methods: Machine Learning, Statistical Learning
- Languages: Fortran, R, Python, Matlab, C/C++
- Satellite/Sensor Data: Landsat, Sentinel-2, WorldView3, MODIS, ECOSTRESS, ICESat-2, GEDI, OCO-2, OCO-3, SWOT, SMAP
Team & Environment
You will work with Dr. Kaiguang Zhao and collaborators from the USDA, University of Maryland, and Stroud Water Research Center.
Work Mode
This is a fully remote position.
The Ohio State University is an equal opportunity employer, including veterans and disability.
