Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Sciences
1 week ago
**Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Sciences**:
**Nature of Work**: Combination of desk and fieldwork
**Accountabilities**:The PDF will play a key role in connecting a dynamic team of soil and crop scientists, GIS specialists, remote sensing experts, and computer programmers. They will be responsible for:
- Conducting fieldwork using UAVs (drones) to capture high-resolution imagery and environmental data
- Processing and analyzing large-scale remote sensing datasets from UAV, satellite, and ground-based sensors
- Leveraging artificial intelligence, e.g. machine learning, reinforcement learning to develop data-driven, space-time explicit precision agronomic solutions
- Utilizing high-performance computing (HPC) systems for large-scale geospatial data processing, model training, and validation
- Designing and managing scalable ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to integrate multi-source, multimodal datasets
- Collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of soil scientists, agronomists, and computer scientists
- Presenting research findings at national and international conferences and contributing to peer-reviewed publications
- Being part of the new Nutrien Centre for Digital and Sustainable Agriculture
**Education**: Ph.D. in Plant Science, Environmental Science, Soil Science, Geography, Bioresources, Computer Science, or related discipline
**Licenses**: A valid class 5 driver’s license is a necessity.
**Skills**: Expertise in varying disciplines, with strong proficiency in programming languages such as R, Python or Javascript is required. Experience in big data analytics and deep learning using time series analysis and spatial interpolation of landscape features in the Canadian Prairie would be considered an asset.
**To Apply**:
**Department**: Plant Sciences
**Status**: Term
**Employment Group**: Postdoctoral Fellows - PSAC
**Full Time Equivalent (FTE)**: 1.0
**Salary Information**: The starting salary will be commensurate with education and experience.
**Posted Date**: 6/27/2025
**Closing Date**: Open until filled
**Number of Openings**: 1
**Work Location**:On Campus
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