Climate Scientist

About Science and Technology Corporation (STC): Founded in 1979, Science and Technology Corporation (STC) delivers an extensive range of award-winning advanced scientific, engineering, and technical support services to the U.S. Government and Industry customers. Our proven expertise and experience span scientific research, development, test and evaluation in areas such as earth and atmospheric sciences, engineering, data science and software engineering. Will you join our world-class team?

• Employment Category: Full-Time/Regular
• Location: Remote
• Travel: No travel required
• Security Clearance: NOAA Agency Background Check
• Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship
• Salary: $80,000 - $100,000 (commensurate with experience)

Job Description:
STC is seeking a dedicated Senior Climate Scientist in support of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Center for Environmental Information (NCEI). Should you have a strong background in climate science and are a highly proactive and skilled individual, we encourage you to apply today!

Job Requirements

• Assemble and maintain vertically integrated, quality assured instrumental datasets that service the needs of targeted stakeholder communities and commercial sectors.
• Create homogenized instrumental datasets that contain adjustments to account for the impact of non-climatic factors (e.g., changes in station location or satellite sensor) in the historical record.
• Develop gridded products that provide a high-resolution, temporally consistent analysis of environmental parameters (e.g., temperature, drought) from an integration of multiple data types (e.g., in situ, radar, reanalysis, satellite, socioeconomic).
• Generate point-based and gridded products that depict averages (e.g., normals, typical meteorological year) and extremes (e.g., the intensity, duration, and frequency of rare events such as heat, floods, and hail) at multiple scales.
• Expand the suite of available file formats for datasets and products (e.g., provide raster information as CSVs, ArcGIS grids, and GeoTIFFs).
• Incorporate atmospheric, coastal, oceanic, geophysical, reanalysis, and socioeconomic data streams into NCEI's suite of climate monitoring services, including the Monthly Reports and related web applications.
• Expand the mapping content and analysis capabilities of NCEI's climate monitoring web applications (e.g., the U.S. Climate Atlas, Drought Termination and Amelioration Tool, the National Temperature and Precipitation Maps tool) to better meet the needs of IRA priority sectors and users (specific sectors and applications TBD).
• Produce ArgGIS StoryMaps that depict past weather and climate events and that place them in historical perspective for consumption by the media and the general public.
• Develop products that blend historical data with short-term and/or seasonal forecasts to facilitate the tracking of emergent events (e.g., heat waves, droughts) and their range of prospective outcomes.
• Create products that merge historical climatological information with climate model projections to facilitate decision making on multi-decadal time scales.
• Expand the NCEI suite of national-, regional-, and local-scale indicators of the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and biosphere based on long-term, homogeneous instrumental data.
• Extend quantitative indicators of climate variability and change into the preindustrial past using available proxy climate data from natural archives.
• Standardize dataset contributions archived by the World Data Service for Paleoclimatology by generating data files in a uniform template format and applying a consistent methodology for reporting paleoclimate age information.
• Create products and reports that assess the socioeconomic impacts of extreme weather and climate events at spatial scales relevant to decision making.
• Automate real-time updates to climate assessment products and reports (e.g., the Billion Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters product).
• Develop and implement algorithms that evaluate the causes of individual extreme events and that provide a scientifically sound estimate of the relative contributions of natural variability and anthropogenic forcing to the occurrence and/or severity of the event.
• Assist in the preparation, delivery, and presentation of peer-reviewed journal articles or conference presentations for new or improved products and services developed.

Essential Requirements:

• Background in the field of climate science; experience in the development of datasets, products, services, and reports derived from climatological data.
• A record of sustaining operations, including data ingestion, quality assurance, data integration, data archive, and data access.
• Experience in the development and maintenance of operational software in a variety of programming languages and development environments, including, but not limited to, ArcGIS, Fortran, and Python.

Education:

• Master’s Degree is preferred in a related field with at least 10+ years of experience.

Benefits:

• Paid Time Off Starting at 80 hrs/yr, 11 Federal holidays, and 40 hrs/yr Sick Leave
• 401K with up to 4% employer matching contribution
• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance, Short Term/Long Term Disability
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Tuition reimbursement

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Flexible spending account
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Retirement plan
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote