Geospatial Jobs #55: Oct 1, 2024
Welcome to the 55th issue of Geospatial Jobs, a career newsletter focusing on data science and geosciences (🌧climate-tech, 🌽ag-tech, 🌊risk modeling, ⚡️energy, 🛰remote sensing, ♻️sustainability, and more).
📢 I’ve started a new newsletter–GeoAI Unpacked–to share deep dives and insightful analyses focusing on AI & geospatial / climate-tech industry. In the first issue, I’ve explored Earth Observation (EO) foundation models. Check it out to learn more and subscribe to stay tuned.
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a. Parenthood: We have an infant at home, and every moment spent with our child is truly precious (and also quite demanding). I hope the side income from this newsletter allows us to enjoy some quality time together (maybe an occasional vacation?) to make up for the time I miss while working on it.
b. Opportunity cost: With limited time and so many exciting ideas to explore and people to connect with, having a side income will give me a good reason to continue investing my time in this newsletter.
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🕵️💵 Recent Fundraisings / Updates:
Brightband raised $10M series A funding for AI-based weather forecasting.
DCVC, a deep tech venture capital firm, has closed $700M funds to invest in climate-tech startups and more.
Dunya Analytics raised $1.2M Seed round for biodiversity risk measurement.
Elemental Impact (fka Elemental Excelerator) has launched a $100M Green Fund.
💡📚 Useful Resources:
Amazon has released their annual Sustainability Call for Proposals as part of the Amazon Research Award program.
Taylor Geospatial Institute (TGI) is hosting a workshop (starting 13 November) on food security and sustainable agriculture, and they will be funding collaborative projects starting in 2025. Apply to join workshops. More details here.
Postdoc / Research Positions:
Berkeley Lab: Postdoc - Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems
NREL: Early Career Researcher - Solar for Industrial Decarbonization Software Developer
USDA Midwest Climate Hub (Ames, IA): Ecologist/Agronomist/Physical Scientist
Desert Research Institute: Postdoc, Fire Process-Atmospheric Modeling
Argonne National Laboratory: Postdoc - Wetland Ecosystem Science
NOAA:
Penn State:
Colorado State: Postdoc - Deep Learning and Coupled Human-Climate
UCI: Two postdocs - Marine Heat Waves
Michigan State: Postdoc - Ecological Remote Sensing
Harvard & Smithsonian: EarthAI postdoc Fellowship
UT Austin: Postdoc Fellow in Water Systems
U Idaho: Postdoc - Hydrologic Modeling of Wildfires and Soil Erosion
Utah State: Postdoc - Subsurface Hydrology
Lake Superior State University: Postdoc - Oil Detection and Monitoring in Freshwater Ecosystems
🇧🇪 KU Leuven: Research Software Engineer
🇳🇱 Wageningen U: Postdoc - flood and drought early warning systems
🇦🇹 BOKU University in Vienna: Research Associate - Climate Impacts
🇩🇰 European Environment Agency (Copenhagen): Expert - Copernicus Land Monitoring
🇫🇷 Météo-France, CNRM: Postdoc - AI for Numerical Weather Prediction
🇮🇹 International Water Management Institute: Scientist I - Remote Sensing for Climate Finance
🇱🇺 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology: Postdoc - remote sensing and ecosystem functioning
🇮🇳 IIT Bombay: Internship (Master’s level) - Climate Science Research
Data Science / Engineering Positions:
Google:
🇬🇧 DeepMind (London): Research Engineer, Geospatial AI
Brightband: Research Engineer + Geospatial Data Engineer
AI2 (Seattle): Research Scientist, Climate Modeling
Meta (Fremont, CA): Net Zero Data Specialist
Amazon: Sr. Manager / Principal Applied Scientist, AI and Sustainability
Morgan Stanley (New York): Associate - Climate Risk Central Team
Verisk (Boston): Vice President, Cat Modelling Product Management
Hydrosat:
Ramboll: Geospatial Consultant
Wherobots (San Francisco): Senior Developer Advocate
Saildrone (Alameda, CA): Oceanographic Program Data Lead
Sofar Ocean (San Francisco):
Subtidal: Part-Time Ocean Data Scientist
Ventus: Meteorologist + Working student/intern meteorologist
Apex (Charlottesville, VA): Senior Wind Energy Analyst
DewBerry (Fairfax, VA): Geospatial Data Analyst
WSP: Junior Climate Data Analyst – Climate, Resilience & Sustainability
Environmental Defense Fund: Senior Data Analyst, Methane Science
MITRE (McLean, VA): Geospatial Data Scientist
EVONA: Geospatial Data Engineer
Leidos (Reston, VA): AI/ML Software Engineer Geospatial
Attis:
AidData (Williamsburg, VA): Geospatial Analyst
World Bank: Data Scientist Consultant
SkyTruth: Fullstack Engineer (Front-End Focus)
Vannevar Labs: Senior Full Stack Engineer, Geospatial
Internships:
ECOnorthwest (Portland, OR): Spatial Analyst Internship
🇩🇪 LiveEO: Geospatial Tech Operations Intern
🇨🇦 BHP (Toronto): Principal Geoscience Data
🇬🇧 Mitigrate:
🇬🇧 Climate Fix: ML Engineer
🇬🇧 DNV (London): Climate Data Scientist
🇬🇧 Space Intelligence: Data Scientist & Senior EO Data Scientist
🇬🇧 Intertek: Geoscience Consultant
🇬🇧 Rewilding Company: Remote Sensing Specialist
🇮🇪 Jacobs: GIS Analyst
🇳🇱 Overstory: Senior Geospatial ML Engineer
🇳🇱 Satelligence (Utrecht): Full Stack Developer
🇨🇭 Jua AI: Meteorologist
🇫🇮 Koko Forest (Helsinki): Remote Sensing Analyst
🇳🇿 ClimSystems: Climatic Data Processing Software Engineer
🇮🇳 Satsure (Bangalore):