Wetlands Assistant Project Scientist

Professor Adina Paytan in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) invites applicants for an assistant project scientist to be stationed at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL). The Paytan Biogeochemistry Lab is dedicated to exploring the intricate web of interactions between living organisms and the chemical elements that shape our planet.

Under the direction of Dr. Adina Paytan at UCSC and Dr. Zelalem Mekonnen at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), the assistant project scientist will utilize machine learning models to investigate how different coastal wetland restoration options and climate change will affect wetland carbon balance. The selected candidate will be working on modeling gas carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands as a nature based decarbonization solution and using model outputs to create a GIS tool useful for upscaling and decision making.

Duties will include numerical modeling, parameter optimization for ODEs, utilizing CNN and LSTM methods to assess carbon sequestration potential and greenhouse gas emissions and GIS. The position will require the scientist to use MATlab, Python, C++, Linux, Openmp, and MPI; demonstrate familiarity with wetland carbon dynamics, and consistently demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Applicants with experience using machine learning applications to process eddy covariance tower data are highly encouraged to apply.

Paytan Biogeochemistry Lab: https://paytanlab.ucsc.edu/

Earth and Planetary Sciences Department: https://eps.ucsc.edu/

• A Ph.D. (or equivalent foreign degree) in applied mathematics, or a related field (e.g., geology/earth science, environmental science, computational and applied mathematics, etc.) .
• Demonstrated experience with modeling gas carbon sequestration in coastal wetlands.
• Demonstrated record of experience with machine learning models.

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