Estuarine Biogeochemical - Richmond, United States - San Francisco Estuary Institute

Description

Estuarine Biogeochemical / Water Quality Modeler:

• Location: Richmond, California
• Program: Clean Water
• Type: Full-time
• Experience Level: Mid level or higher
• Position Type: Permanent
• Salary: $95,500-$103,000

Position Description:

• Posted: May 6, 2024
• Application closing date: Position open until filled

The San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) seeks a scientist or engineer with expertise in three-dimensional biogeochemical / water quality modeling to join our team of numerical modelers conducting investigations related to nutrient loads, transformations, and ecosystem response in San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta.

Primary position responsibilities will include:

• Synthesizing results in reports and peer-reviewed articles.
• Presenting findings to stakeholders and peers.
• Taking an active role in setting program priorities and designing future studies, including fundraising.
• Serving as a scientific and technical resource for other projects both within the NMS and throughout SFEI as a whole.

Qualifications:


Required Experience:

• PhD with 2+ years relevant work experience or a Masters degree with 9+ years relevant work experience.

Required Skills:

• Experience with estuarine, coastal ocean, or lake modeling is particularly relevant, including working with CE-QUALW2, EFDC, FVCOM, SCHISM, SUNTANS, Delft3D-FM, ROMS, or similar.
• Experience with model calibration and validation.
• Experience designing and implementing biogeochemistry and/or water quality modeling studies.
• Although the position is for a biogeochemical / water quality modeler, a strong understanding of hydrodynamics is also necessary.
• Strong analytical and data analysis skills, including time series and spatial analysis and handling 3D + time model output using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Matlab).
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience communicating scientific findings to a broad audience and working with a broad range of collaborators, managers, and stakeholders.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with estuarine ecology and estuarine physics, e.g., working with tides, tidal dispersion, density stratification, strong horizontal gradients.
• Experience with fundraising, project management, and managing entry and midlevel scientists is not required but is desirable.
• Experience with multiple model platforms is a plus.
• Our team works with Python, Linux, Git, and sometimes Fortran, so prior experience with these is a plus.

In your resume, please explicitly address the required and preferred skills, preferably in bulleted format.


Salary & Benefits highlights:

• This will be an Environmental Scientist II position (position may be at a higher level depending on the experience of the applicant). The anticipated salary range for full time employment is $95,500$103,000 for an Environmental Scientist II (Bay Area salary ranges are listed; note that salary ranges for other locations are 1015% lower depending on location and are based on locational salary data). Salary ranges take into account many factors for making compensation decisions including but not limited to experience, education, internal equity, and organizational needs. We generally do not offer starting salaries at or near the top of the range.
• Matching contributions to retirement plan (immediate vesting) (403B).
• Medical Insurance: health, vision, dental with employer and employee contributions 12 paid holidays.
• Vacation days starting at 3 weeks.
• Hybrid workplace: Most SFEI staff are in the office several days per week, but a fully remote option is possible with approval from management.

About CW:

SFEI's Clean Water Program is one of the nation's premier water quality science programs. It anticipates and meets the water quality data needs of policy-makers, resource managers, and the public.

It helps the public, regulators, and those who discharge into our waters create more effective policies to ensure the health of our waters.

The Clean Water Program consists of several programs and initiatives including the San Francisco Bay Nutrient Management Strategy.

SFEI is the scientific lead for this program, which seeks to address the most complex and costly issue confronting the wastewater treatment community since the Clean Water Act mandated secondary treatment 40 years ago.

About SFEI:

San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which has a 25-year track record of providing robust and innovative science to decision-makers, policy-makers, practitioners, and community members to measurably improve the health and resiliency of Bay-Delta ecosystems.

As a boundary organization, SFEI operates at the interface between science and policy, recognized nationally for our ability to build consensus to support effective environmental decision-making and policy.

Our mission is to deliver visionary science that empowers people to revitalize nature