Postdoctoral Associate – Radiation Observations (BNF-related)

1 November 2024 - 10 January 2025

The Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado Boulder, has an opening for a Postdoctoral Associate within the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, Colorado! The researcher will develop new radiation and cloud products for use on towers, ships, aircraft and other platforms. The position will include research into novel instrument deployment and calibration techniques, updating and development of critical data products for the use of surface radiation measurements in cloud and aerosol studies, and scientific insights into the radiative effects of clouds, aerosols, and surface properties important to weather, climate, and applications like renewable energy. The researcher will work for the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder but located at the NOAA David Skaggs Research Center, Boulder, CO. This role will work alongside federal and university employees engaged in research examining the Earth’s surface radiation budget and climate forcing properties of atmospheric constituents from short-term field campaigns as well as long-term U.S. surface radiation, aerosol, and cloud networks.

Position responsibilities include assisting with the assessment and analysis (and optionally installation) of new radiation measurements in a tower above the tree canopy in the Southeast United States at the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility’s Bankhead National Forest (BNF) atmospheric observatory site focused on land-atmosphere interactions, shallow cumulus clouds, and cloud-aerosol interactions.