Stillingstittel:
PhD Research Fellowship in Hydrologic Modeling and Geophysical Data Science

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.PhD Research Fellowship in Hydrologic Modeling and Geophysical Data Science

A PhD position is available at the Department of Geosciences, Section for Geography and Hydrology.

The fellowship will be for a period of 3 years, with no compulsory work or for a period of 4 years, with 25 % compulsory work (teaching responsibilities at the department) contingent on the qualifications of the candidate and the teaching needs of the department. The latest starting date is 1 October, 2016. No one can be appointed for more than one fixed-term period at the same institution.

The candidate will work in the LATICE (“Land-ATmosphere Interactions in Cold Environments”) research group, together with scientists with expertise on permafrost, hydrology, vegetation, and atmospheric modeling. LATICE is a strategic research area by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo dedicated to improving our knowledge on cold environment processes and their representation in Earth System Models (ESMs). Hydrology is a key integrating topic bringing together other activities in the LATICE initiative and coupling process studies with numerical modeling.

The candidate will join a well-rounded research group with a focus on snow and surface water hydrology, and land-atmosphere interactions in a highly interdisciplinary environment. Current research efforts are focused on developing new algorithms within hydrologic models that provide parsimonious solutions to traditional hydrologic models. To address the need for high-fidelity quantitative forecasts of hydrologic response, we are developing methods that capitalize on more modern forcing data sets, including remote sensing products and field measurements to drive and calibrate simulations. Current research basins include catchments in Norway, India, and Nepal with a focus on the hydrologic response of the cryosphere to variability in atmospheric forcings. The group is developing a new model platform in cooperation with Statkraft AS and also works with the modern Weather Research and Forecasting – Hydro model (WRF-Hydro).

Job description

The specific topic of the PhD thesis will be developed based on the successful applicants own interests and expertise, however, it is expected to form an integrating base for hydrologic modeling within the LATICE research domain. Rapid advances in technologies are generating novel and unique sources of data that often have the virtues of ‘Big Data’. An example dataset may be remotely sensed products that provide spatial information across a basin, or high resolution but temporarily sporadic images for single catchments. Other examples may be distributed observations from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). The candidate is expected to participate in the various field activities of the group. In general, while providing immense potential, much of these new data products have challenges due to temporal and or spatially sporadic variability. The candidate will work to understand and develop methods to scale these data to provide value to physically-based and conceptual models, and to contribute to the development of new multi-objective calibration algorithms that may utilize such data sets.

Requirements/qualifications:

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Department of Geos

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0316 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: Geologists and geophysicists

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år