Postdoctoral Fellow

Position Information

**Position Title**
- Postdoctoral Fellow

**Posting Number**
- PTAP2901P

**Department/Unit**
- Planning

**Location**
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

**Job Summary & Key Responsibilities**

**CLILMAtlantic’s Mission**
- CLIMAtlantic’s mission is to provide those in Atlantic Canada with information and support to consider climate change impacts in their decisions. Driving this mission is the need for accessible, reliable, actionable climate information to address climate-related risks and support adaptation. These needs are informed by a wide range of key drivers such as:

- social drivers - the impacts of climate change on communities and human health;
- economic drivers - the impacts of climate change on the competitiveness of Atlantic Canadian economic sectors such as agriculture, energy, and insurance;
- environmental drivers - the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, species, and coasts; and the increasing threats to life and property from disasters due to climate-related severe events.
- The demand for climate services continues to grow within Canada and internationally, including in our region, so a constellation of players working together is important.

**Project Goals**
- To help deliver CLIMAtlantic’s mission, this fellowship position will contribute to the development of a novel geospatial visualization tool to represent compounding climate impacts at a range of decision-making scales:

- Validate the geospatial mapping tool by identifying historical climate hazards and utilize the tool to consider potential high-risk scenarios for community infrastructure and natural assets.
- We are seeking an engaged and driven Postdoctoral Fellow who brings spatial data visualization and research experience to this highly collaborative, end-user focused project. In particular, the successful applicant will work with researchers in the School of Planning at Dalhousie University and Climate Adaptation Specialists at CLIMATlantic to mobilize the cumulative risk assessment and visualization tool.

**Qualifications/Requirements of Position**

**Qualifications/Requirements of Position**
- You must have completed, or soon will complete, a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study. This may include, but is not limited to: planning, environmental studies, geography, or related disciplines. Ideally you will have conducted doctoral research within the area of climate change modelling, GIS-based risk assessment, visualization, etc.
- Strong interest, experience, and success within climate change adaptation spatial and social mapping with the ability to develop methodologies for assessing climate-driven environmental and population changes to understand cumulative climate risks, specifically to produce hazard maps and multi-criteria hazard risk assessment methods integrating multiple parameters to estimate the spatial susceptibility of key climate impacts;
- Strong understanding of, and experience with, Geographic Information Systems and the ability to liaise and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to develop a geospatial decision support tool for non-GIS users, e.g., Enterprise GIS databases, ETL workflows for data sharing, ArcGIS Dashboards;
- Demonstration of intermediate knowledge of python scripting and experience working with NetCDF climate datasets is required, and knowledge or experience of integration into geographical information systems, especially ESRI ArcPro will be an asset.
- Interest and experience advancing climate change risk information visualization and communication; through supporting or directing research on end user needs and experiences with climate data.
- Familiarity with the use of ArcGIS, ArcGIS Online, PAVICS and Python is required
- Knowledge of THREDDS and Java would be an asset
- A strong commitment to upholding pillars of equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Fluency in French and English is an asset as well.

**Salary Range/Pay Rate**
- $61,000 per year plus benefits

**Additional Information**

The required documents are:
Cover letter (two page maximum)
- Curriculum Vitae (CV)
- Sample publications (three page maximum)
- List of three references

Posting Detail Information

**Term of appointment**
- The position will be for two years with the possibility of extension. The preferred start date is July 1st, 2025.

**Open Date**

**Close Date**
- 05/23/2025

**Open Until Filled**
- No

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