MMI Community Opportunities

From Job Description: The Global Environment Monitoring Unit (Ispra, Italy) of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is looking for a software developer who will work on web processing services (WPS) for modelling habitats in protected areas and on the uncertainty propagation between web modeling services.

From Job Description: As Product Developer, in coordination with scientists and staff; research, design and implement a system to integrate oceanographic data sets. Determine portability of oceanographic datasets from various organizations into the SCCOOS system. Implement a database/file based architecture to archive and serve large data sets. Develop compiled programs and scripts to automate transfer and quality control (QC) of data. Document design procedures. Develop metadata system that conforms to standards that are being adopted for the marine observation programs (Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)). Develop and implement access methods for end-user data from the SCCOOS data system such as Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Thematic Real-time Environmental Distributed Data Services (THREDDS), the Environmental Research Division's Data Access Program (ERDDAP). Coordinate efforts with federal IOOS DMAC activates.

The Arizona Geological Survey (AZGS, http://www.azgs.az.gov/) is hiring three staff to work on web service development and deployment for the National Geothermal Data System. They are looking for a variety of abilities, including programming for web service clients and servers (mostly JAVA, building on existing FOSS projects or ArcGIS), XML schema development and testing, xslt transformations, and various ETL projects for which some geology domain knowledge will be useful/necessary. Resume review will start next week, search will remain open until the three positions are filled, see above links for more information.

NEPTUNE Canada has five openings - one in each of the following broad research themes on the observatory:

1. Plate tectonic processes and earthquake dynamics
2. Dynamic processes of fluid fluxes and gas hydrates in the sea bed
3. Regional ocean/climate dynamics and effects on marine biota
4. Deep-sea ecosystem dynamics
5. Engineering and computational research

Interested applicants should identify on their cover letter which research theme they are applying to.

Postdoctoral Associate - Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE):

*If interested, please contact to Dr. Stephanie Hampton at hampton@nceas.ucsb.edu*

The National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is recruiting a postdoctoral associate to work in the engagement of scientists and other stakeholders in the collaborative process of improving access to scientific data across ecology and environmental sciences.

NSF is establishing a new program, Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2), with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure. SI2 is a long-term investment focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems.

The Oceanographic Technology and Interdisciplinary Coordination (OTIC) Program supports a broad range of research and technology development activities. Unsolicited proposals are accepted for instrumentation development that has broad applicability to ocean science research projects and that enhance observational, experimental or analytical capabilities of the ocean science research community.

A flood of new information, from whole-genome sequences to detailed structural information to inventories of earth's biota to greater appreciation of the importance of lateral gene transfer in shaping evolutionary history, is transforming 21st century biology. Along with comparative data on morphology, fossils, development, behavior, and interactions of all forms of life on earth, these new data streams make even more critical the need for an organizing evolutionary context.

The Decision Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU) collaborative groups competition offers awards to support teams of researchers who will advance fundamental understanding of decision making under uncertainty for climate change and related long-term environmental risks. The focus of these collaborative groups will be to generate fundamental new knowledge as well as information and tools that decision makers will find useful to help them incorporate climate change and related long-term environmental risks in their decision making.

CISE’s Division of Computing and Communication Foundations (CCF) supports research and education projects that develop new knowledge in three core programs:

* The Algorithmic Foundations program;

* The Communications and Information Foundations program; and

* The Software and Hardware Foundations program.

Proposers are invited to submit proposals in three project classes, which are defined as follows:

* Small Projects - up to $500,000 total budget with durations up to three years;