[Forest-list] Four Research Positions in RS

[Artur Gil]

Four Research Associate positions are available within the Research
Cluster led by Professor Martin Wooster at King's College London (UK),
concentrating on the study of biomass burning using satellite Earth
Observation, simulation modelling and in situ and remote sensing
measurement techniques.

Posts are variously related to the UK NERC National Centre for Earth
Observation (www.nceo.ac.uk <http://www.nceo.ac.uk>) and to the
development of the fire emissions component of the GMES Atmospheric
Monitoring and Forecasting service under the MACC-II EU FP7 project
(www.gmes-atmosphere.eu <http://www.gmes-atmosphere.eu>). Ongoing
research topics to which the post holders will contribute to include
exploitation of thermal remote sensing data, EO active fire algorithm
development and validation, fire simulation modelling and modelling of
smoke atmospheric transport, exploitation of atmospheric spectroscopy
data for smoke aerosol and trace gas emissions studies, and deployment
of flux towers, field spectroscopy and UAV imaging methods at
experimental fires.

There are opportunities to contribute to a number of ongoing projects,
and research and publication examples can be found at
www.tinyurl.com/mwooster. Applicants should have research experience in
one or more of the following areas: remote sensing, EO algorithm
development, satellite fire product use and validation, fire spread or
CFD modelling, atmospheric spectroscopy, use of atmospheric
chemistry/transport models, deployment of in situ measurement devices
during field campaigns. An understanding of biomass burning processes
and effects would be useful, and candidates are expected to be able to
work with large datasets, to write computer code (ideally IDL and/or
Python) and to be able to communicate clearly in English.

Further opportunities within the research team may arise for suitably
performing candidates.

Application deadline is 14/3/2012.

Further detail and application material can be found at:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=11315