Location College Park, Maryland Hours Temporary Full-Time Applications deadline 07/08/2026 Description At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget. Our Science & Technology directorates include National Security, Earth and Biological Sciences, Physical and Computational Sciences,…
Post Doctorate Research Associate – Earth Systems Sciences
Location College Park, Maryland Hours Temporary Full-Time Applications deadline 07/16/2026 Description At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget. Our Science & Technology directorates include National Security, Earth and Biological Sciences, Physical and Computational Sciences,…
Postdoctoral Scholar in adaptation of civil infrastructure systems at Penn State
Location Penn State University Park, PA Hours Full-time Applications review Immediately and continue until the position is filled Description The Pennsylvania State University’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to participate in a multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator NSF-funded research project. The overarching aim of this project is in…
1 PhD and 4 Postdoctoral Research Positions in Global Hydrology
Location Multiple locations Hours Full-time Start date March/April 2026 Description We are creating an interdisciplinary cohort of PhD students and Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work across several institutions and topic areas to progress towards a global understanding for links between water infrastructure and aquatic ecosystems. The positions are offered by Cornell…
Researcher Highlight: Stefano Galelli
Originally published in our November 2025 newsletter (Issue 28) Dr. Stefano Galelli is a computational scientist working on the interaction between critical infrastructure systems and the natural environment. As a member of the MSD Community of Practice, he co-leads the Working Group on “AI for MSD Research” Dr. Galelli is…
Why Idealized Models Are More Important Than Ever in Earth System Science
Kevin A. Reed, Brian Madeiros, Christiance Jablownowski, Isla R. Simpson, Aiko Voight, and Allison A. Wing Acknowledgment of support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Biological & Environmental Research (BER), Regional and Global Model Analysis (RGMA) component of the Earth and Environmental System Modeling (EESM)…
High-Resolution National-Scale Water Modeling Is Enhanced by Multiscale Differentiable Physics-Informed Machine Learning
Yalan Song, Tadd Bindas, Chaopeng Shen, Haoyu Ji, Wouter J.M. Knoben, Leo Lonzarich, Martyn P. Clark, Jiangtao Liu, Katie van Werkhoven, Sam Lamont, Matthew Denno, Ming Pan, Yuan Yang, Jeremy Rapp, Mukesh Kumar, Farshid Rahmani, Cyril Thébault, Richard Adkins, James Halgren, Trupesh Patel, Arpita Patel, Kamlesh Arun Sawadekar, Kathryn Lawson Acknowledgment of support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science…
Postdoctoral Fellow in Geography, Mortality Impacts of Heat Waves at Dartmouth College
Location Hanover, NH Hours Full-time Start date 1st January 2026 Description The Climate Modeling and Impacts Group and the Keller Research Group at Dartmouth College invite applications for a postdoctoral researcher with expertise in quantitative methods and research interests related to climate science.The successful candidate will be co-advised by Professors Justin Mankin (Geography) and Klaus Keller (Engineering) and…
Researcher Highlight: Kendall Mongird
Originally published in our July 2025 newsletter (Issue 27) Kendall Mongird is a Data Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where she’s worked since 2017. She has a BSc. in Quantitative Economics from California Polytechnic State University and a MSc. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh. Kendall’s research focuses…
Researcher Highlight: Casey Burleyson
Originally published in our March 2025 newsletter (Issue 26) Dr. Casey Burleyson is an Earth Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory where he’s worked since 2014. He has a B.S. in Meteorology and a Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from North Carolina State University and a M.S. in Applied Physics from…