2025 NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow

Job Description Summary:We are pleased to announce the 2025 call for
applications for NOAAs Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral (C&GC)
Fellowship program.

The Fellowship program has an outstanding reputation for attracting the best
and the brightest PhDs in the sciences, and for training future leaders in
Climate and Global Change Science. The C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
is seeking applications across the full breadth of disciplines contributing to
Climate and Global Change Science.

Innovative research within and across disciplines that span the spectrum of
the physical, social, and integrated sciences is needed to understand,
better predict, plan for, and manage the Earth System and its interactions
in a changing climate, as well as how communities experience and are
impacted by these changes, and how society will pursue low-carbon adaptation
pathways for a secure and sustainable future. NOAAs Science Council
emphasizes the importance of extramural investments in climate science
spanning observations, analysis, modeling, and the integration of
social, behavioral, and economic research across NOAA mission areas
(NOAA Strategic Research Guidance Memorandum FY25). Each appointed Fellow
is hosted by a mentoring scientist at a U.S. university or research
institution (including Federal laboratories and Federally-funded Research
and Development Centers, like NOAA and UCAR) to work in an innovative
climate-related research area of mutual interest to advance NOAAs science
mission. This mission is to understand and predict climate, weather,
oceans, and coast changes and illustrate relevance to the NOAA FY22-26
Strategic Plan. For example, our plan calls for Integrated Breakthrough
Climate Research under the Build a Climate Ready Nation goal.

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows focus on advancing Climate
and Global Change Science. This includes science that furthers our
understanding of physical earth system processes, climate impacts, and
climate adaptation science. Examples include: observing, understanding,
modeling, and predicting climate variability, change, and impacts on
seasonal and longer time scales; documentation and analysis of past,
current, or possible future climate variability and change; the study of
the underlying Earth Systems processes, including physical-, chemical-,
biological-, biogeochemical-, coupled human-systems processes, and/or
their interactions. Coupled human-systems processes include climate adaptation
science and its methods and analyses considering vulnerabilities,
decision-making contexts, and/or policy pathways for a low-carbon,
sustainable, and equitable future society. Applications may be focused on
one discipline or be interdisciplinary, integrating across disciplines.

C&GC Fellows are UCAR employees and receive a fixed annual salary, plus
UCARs benefits and allowances for relocation, travel, and publications.
The program is sponsored by the NOAA Climate Program Office.
Position Details:
Visa Sponsored Job:Yes

Relocation Assistance Eligible:Yes

Job Location: Boulder, Colorado

Position Type & Term:Full time, Term – 6 months or more (Fixed Term)

Compensation Range:
$80,480
Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, and skills
relevant to the role.
Application Notes
Application Deadline:This position will be posted until 11:59pm MT,
January 10, 2025.Late applications will not be accepted.

Required application materials(compiled into 1 PDF):

Application Questionnaire (answered within the online application)

Ensure you have the names and contact information of your professional
reference letter writers handy (note, you must provide TWO references –
one of which may be your PhD advisor), as you must provide it during the
application process.

Full Application Packet – Please refer to the Required Application Documents
listed below for a list of all the required material.

Background checksare conducted for candidates selected for hire. Learn more.

Work Location: This position is open to anyone seeking in-person research
opportunities at any of the proposed U.S. Universities or Research
Institutions listed below, and is not available for remote-work. Regardless
of flexible work arrangements, UCAR requires ALL positions to be performed
within the U.S., excluding U.S. Territories.

Length of Position: 2-year term position, based on continued program
funding. Successful applicants in this program work under the mentorship of
host scientists in areas of mutual interest.
What You Will Do
Here is a brief summary of what one would expect to be generally
responsible… For full info follow application link.

The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) is an equal
opportunity/equal access/affirmative action employer that strives to
develop and maintain a diverse workforce. UCAR is committed to providing equal
opportunity for all employees and
applicants for employment and does not discriminate on the basis of race,
age, creed, color, religion, national origin or ancestry, sex,
gender, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual
orientation, gender identity or expression, or pregnancy.