Geospatial Jobs #11: Aug 25, 2021
Welcome to the 11th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climatetech, 🌽agtech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
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Open Positions:
a. Data Science / ML Engineering positions:
🇺🇸 AccuWeather is hiring an Atmospheric Data Scientist (State College, PA, or Remote): Link
🇺🇸 Descartes Labs is hiring for multiple positions:
🇺🇸 First Street Foundation is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸 Pachama is hiring for several positions (Remote):
🇺🇸 Watershed is hiring a Climate strategy manager and a Carbon data analyst
🇺🇸 Myst AI is hiring a Data Scientist: Link
🇺🇸🇨🇦 Urbint is hiring multiple positions such as Senior Geospatial Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist, and Senior Machine Learning Engineer (US or Canada): Link
EY (Earnst & Young) is hiring two positions:
🇺🇸 San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is hiring a Watershed Scientist (Environmental Analyst or Associate Environmental Scientist): Link
🇺🇸 Colaberry is hiring a GIS analyst with proficiency in SQL: Link
🇺🇸 AECOM is hiring for two positions:
🇺🇸 USGS is hiring an Elevation Data Acquisition Lead, GS14: Link
🇺🇸 The Nature Conservancy (TNC) is hiring for two positions:
🇺🇸 FEMA is hiring an Environmental Protection Specialist, IC12: Link
🇩🇪 Orora Tech is hiring for multiple positions such as Geospatial Data Engineer, Remote Sensing / Computer Vision Engineer, and internships: Link
🇬🇧🇩🇪 Multiple data scientist/analyst positions are available at ECMWF: Link
🇬🇧 Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is hiring a Flood Modeler (London, UK): Link
🇬🇧 CarbonChain is hiring a Data Scientist (London, UK): Link
🇦🇺 Risk Frontiers is hiring a data scientist focusing on natural hazards, resilience or climate change: Link
🇧🇷 World Research Institute (WRI) is hiring a Land use, agriculture and forests program director (Sao Paulo, Brazil): Link
Postdoc / research positions:
🇺🇸 USDA-ARS Postdoctoral Fellowship available on Sustainable Groundwater-Irrigated Agroecosystems: Link
🇺🇸 Two postdoc positions on using ML and big data for wildfire modeling working with Mojtaba Sadegh and John Abatzoglou: Link
🇺🇸 Two postdoc positions in Remote Sensing and Environmental Data Science available at UC Davis working with Yufang Jin: Link
🇺🇸 Geologic/Hydrologic Data Analyst position available at UT Austin: Link
🇺🇸 Assistant Project Scientist (Water Resources) position available at UC Davis: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on cloud feedbacks and aerosol-cloud interactions available at PNNL: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position (2-3 years NSF Career-funded) on watershed hydrology working with Margaret Zimmer available at UC Santa Cruz: Link
🇺🇸 Postdoc position on climate model uncertainty and economic risk analysis working with Bob Kopp available at Rutgers University: Link
🇬🇧 Research Scientist in Climate Change, Storm Risk and Finance available at the University of Reading working with Len Shaffrey: Link
🇩🇪 Postdoc position on Hybrid ML/Physical Modeling for Earth Science available at the Institute of Coastal Systems (part of Helmholtz AI): Link
🕵️💵 Companies to Follow (recent fundings):
Regrow Ag has raised $17M series A funding to expand their monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) tool for carbon sequestration and monetization. The funding comes from top investors such as Cargill and Microsoft, and the company seems to be on track for great success in this growing sector. Learn more
Urbint has announced $60M Series C funding to scale AI systems and help utilities and infrastructure companies meet the growing challenges of climate risk and aging infrastructure. Learn more
📚📖 Useful Resources:
Climate Change AI has a call for proposals on the intersection of climate change and machine learning (proposal submission deadline: Oct 15, 2021). A total of $1.8M will be awarded to 12-months projects (up to $150K each). PI must be a faculty member or postdoc. Learn more and apply here
Applications are open for the 2021 career mentorship program (offered by Woman in Geospatial+). This is a free mentorship program that can be one on one or group-based. Learn more and apply here
Women in Geospatial+ and Geo Sakhi had an online Geospatial Masterclass, all run by women from across the world, focusing on various tools and applications (e.g. python, QGIS, Google Earth Engine, and basic machine learning). The course is freely available on Youtube: Link
European Space Agency (ESA) now sponsors access to new and archived SAR imagery from ICEYE for researchers and Earth Observation application developers in the scope of its TPM program. Learn more and apply here
A great video tutorial on how to use Docker for Data Science: Link to Youtube
A tutorial on land cover classification using Sentinel2 data for the Sundarbans mangrove area in Asia. Learn how to implement different classifiers on satellite imagery using Python: Link
📨💡 Suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated! Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or Twitter. To learn more about my background, visit http://ali.people.ua.edu/.