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Climate Engineer Scientist
2016-03-02 15:07:16| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
Our client, based near Frankfurt in Germany, is responsible for establishing and operating weather forecasting and Earth observation satellite programmes with associated data telemetry and dissemination operations. They are seeking engineering scientific consultancy support in the area of operational monitoring of the climate and the detection of global climate change. The client process satellite generated data mainly to support weather forecasting applications though the analysis of climate change enforces more stringent requirements on the data in terms of temporal coverage, accuracy and stability. The consultant they seek shall have at least 3 years experience in the implementation of software for operational or delayed mode processing of satellite instrument data and in the validation of satellite derived products. The key person should have strong technical skills with a scientific background on retrieval of parameters using visible wavelengths, e.g., surface albedo andor aerosol as well as knowledge of the visible calibration of satellite instruments. The Consultant shall have the following mandatory skills and experience Programming languages and CC and FORTRAN Scripting languages, such as Python, Perl, shell, TclTk Analysis and graphic software such as IDL Processing of remote sensing data Calibration of satellite observations in the visible spectral range Validation of satellite products Working in international projects andor environment. Desirable experience includes Structured software development documentation, testing and validation of application software in UNIX environments according to coding standards Operational product processing environments EUMETSAT Meteosat missions and instruments Retrieval of parameters using visible wave lengths. The working language is English. This is a permanent employee assignment starting in February 2015. Pactum have supplied professional recruitment services to clients throughout the UK and across continental Europe since 1988. We operate as a group of practices focussed onto specific markets and have been successfully recruiting for the Space sector since 2002.
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When will the universe end? As early as 2.8B years from now, but likely much longer says NH scientist
2016-02-26 23:07:44| Grocery - Topix.net
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Climate change scientist says past floods help predict future weather
2016-02-26 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBC: A leading Canadian scientist says Canada is on the front line of climate change, and researchers are studying once-in-a-century weather events to predict what can be expected in the future. Francis Zwiers is director of the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium at University of Victoria. He is speaking across the country, including in Halifax on Saturday, about climate change and whether extreme events are more frequent and intense than in the past. "We talk about different kinds of events, we...
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A climate scientist who decided not to fly
2016-02-21 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Im a climate scientist who doesnt fly. I try to avoid burning fossil fuels, because its clear that doing so causes real harm to humans and to nonhumans, today and far into the future. I dont like harming others, so I dont fly. Back in 2010, though, I was awash in cognitive dissonance. My awareness of global warming had risen to a fever pitch, but I hadnt yet made real changes to my daily life. This disconnect made me feel panicked and disempowered. Then one evening in 2011, I gathered my utility...
Shallow fracking wells contaminate drinking water, warns US scientist
2016-02-15 17:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: A kitchen tap catching fire in 2010 documentary Gasland highlighted the risks of the US shale boom, and energised a movement of anti-fracking activists. Amid the controversy, does living near a gas or oil well really affect your drinking water? "The answer to that question is usually 'no,` but there are exceptions," said Rob Jackson as the Stanford professor presented his research on groundwater quality on Sunday to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The US pumped out...
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