Post Doctoral Associate

The final salary offer may be determined by several factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's qualifications, experience, and expertise, and availability of department or grant funds to support the position. We also take into consideration market benchmarks, if and when appropriate, and internal equity to ensure fair compensation relative to the university's broader compensation structure. We are committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation packages to attract and retain top talent.

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The Eastern Pacific Cloud, Aerosol, and Precipitation Experiment ( EPCAPE) was designed to investigate Aerosol-Cloud Interactions and cloud brightening in California marine stratocumulus. The EPCAPE was conducted in La Jolla, California where the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement ( ARM) Mobile Facility #1 (AMF1) was deployed on the Scripps Pier, which juts several hundred feet into the Pacific Ocean. A second site, Mt. Soledad, was located 3-km inland from the Scripps Pier at an elevation of 250-m and housed Scanning Cloud Radars (SACRs) and a subset of the AMF remote sensors, including a Doppler Lidar, alongside a full suite of in-situ aerosol and cloud analysis instrumentation. A central theme of EPCAPE is the characterization of aerosols and cloud droplet distributions in marine clouds of differing background aerosol composition and to relate these distributions to in-cloud turbulence and cloud brightening. The Doppler lidars at the pier and on Mt. Soledad characterized sub cloud TKE profiles with 2-s resolution and provided a first-line assessment of the integrated turbulence in the sub cloud layer and the distribution of vertical velocities adjacent cloud base. These measurements complement detail aerosol and microphysical assays at Mt. Soledad, henceforth providing a laboratory to investigate aerosol-cloud interactions and their relationship with in-cloud turbulence in unprecedented detail.

A Post-Doctoral Researcher is sought to assist in all phases of EPCAPE-related research conducted as part of a successful, joint proposal between Rutgers University and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and may also contribute to a separate project funded by the National Science Foundation that involves process mechanics in marine boundary layer clouds. The successful applicant must possess a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science with demonstrated expertise in marine boundary layer cloud microphysics, specifically cloud droplet nucleation processes, aerosol measurement and characterization techniques and remote sensing using active sensors. The successful candidate must have a record of publication that demonstrates a process-level understanding of the forces that shape marine cloud microphysics. An intimate knowledge of marine boundary layer thermodynamics, including decoupling, and the scale and nature of mesoscale circulations, is helpful. This Post-Doctoral Researcher is expected to work effectively in a team and have a demonstrated record of public presentations at research conferences commensurate with a highly energetic research enterprise. Experience using MATLAB or Python scripting languages is a requirement.

The successful applicant must possess a Ph.D.