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VITO Job Opportunity – Water Quality Remote Sensing Scientist
VITO is advertising a vacancy for a remote sensing scientist based in Belgium.
Job requirements
- You have a Master or PhD degree in exact sciences, applied sciences, bioscience engineering or civil engineering;
- You have proven experience in the scientific development and application of aquatic remote sensing methods;
- You have at least 5 years of hands-on experience in remote sensing research projects;
- You have sound programming skills in Python, R or C++;
- Knowledge and background in ocean optics and ocean colour is a strong asset;
- Expertise in machine learning techniques on remote sensing data is a strong asset;
- International experience would also be an asset;
- Excellent writing and presentation skills in English is key;
- You have a strong interest to work in an international environment.
Offer
- We work ‘activity-based’, our activities bring us to our location. Our headquarter is in Mol. Hybrid / Part-time working from home or a satellite office in Antwerp-Berchem, Genk, Ghent or Ostend is possible.
- A competitive salary with a range of benefits, including allowances, insurance and a modular package of holidays.
- Innovation is our asset, so it goes without saying that we give our employees the opportunity to take additional training courses and stay up-to-date in their field. You will always have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and discover new technologies.
- You will have the opportunity to be part of an organization with an international reputation, known for its cutting-edge technological research and scientific consultancy.
- With us, you will contribute directly to sustainable developments at local, national and global level through your innovative applications. You provide answers to contemporary societal challenges.
- Moreover, we highly value a good work-life balance at VITO! This is achieved by adopting a flexible attitude depending on your specific needs.
Find out more and apply here
GEO AquaWatch Water Talks 2024 – call for Early Career Water Quality Science talks
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Are you an Early Career Scientist in the Earth Observation for Water Quality field? The Early Career Society of GEO AquaWatch is pleased to announce their call for water quality speakers in the 2024 Water Talks webinar series is now open!
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En español
¿Es usted un científico que inicia su carrera en el campo de la observación de la Tierra para la calidad del agua? ¡La Early Career Society de GEO AquaWatch se complace en anunciar que ya está abierta su convocatoria de oradores sobre calidad del agua en la serie de seminarios web Water Talks 2024!
Call for Expression of Interest in Hosting Regional & Thematic GEO AquaWatch Nodes
In an effort to more effectively serve the water quality community, The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) AquaWatch Initiative is expanding through the formation of regional and thematic nodes. GEO AquaWatch invites government agencies, research institutions and NGOs to submit an expression of interest to host a node to the GEO AquaWatch Secretariat’s principal office.
Submission deadline: continuously open
About GEO AquaWatch
Water quality is essential for human, ecosystem, and economic health. Degradation of water quality can result in human exposure to disease and harmful chemicals, reduction in productivity and diversity of ecosystems and damage to aquaculture, agriculture and other water-related industries. The goal of the AquaWatch Initiative is to develop and build the global capacity and utility of Earth Observation-derived water quality data, products and information to support effective monitoring, management and decision making. AquaWatch encourages activities to engage, and be led by, early career scientists.
Formation of New AquaWatch Nodes
The GEO AquaWatch Secretariat provides scientific and logistical support, and program development for GEO AquaWatch activities. In order to effectively support coordination of relevant activities in other regions and to support global coordination and development of thematic activities, GEO AquaWatch invites government agencies, research institutions and NGOs to submit an expression of interest to host a regional or thematic node of the secretariat. Secretariat nodes can be regional, thematic or a combination of regional and thematic. Thematic nodes should generally align with one, or more, of AquaWatch’s focus areas: Outreach and End User Engagement; Observations and Data; Products and Information; Distribution, Access and Visualization; and Education/Capacity Building. Read the node responsibilities and requirements to become a regional or thematic node here. Any entities considering node hosting should be aligned with, and committed to implementing, GEO AquaWatch’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policy.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Statement
It is GEO AquaWatch’s goal to exceed legal mandates and be a role model of Equity and Inclusion in Water Quality Monitoring and more generally in STEM science. Especially, actively ensuring we are promoting the scientific findings and ideas of, and offering leadership roles and presentation opportunities to, all minority groups and women as the first objective in our planning, not as an afterthought or side effort. Diversity and inclusion are essential to Scientific Excellence and improves scientific outcomes.
Submitting an Expression of Interest
Expressions of interest responsive to the submission questions referenced here should be submitted via email to Ghada El Serafy, Director of GEO AquaWatch at Ghada.ElSerafy@deltares.nl with a copy to mbneely@geoaquawatch.org If you have any questions about hosting a node Contact us!
Remote Sensing Red tides Postdoc: Nantes University (France)
Pierre Gurnez announces a 18-month postdoc position on coastal red tides
remote sensing and ecology, at Nantes University (France).
The main objective will be to study the ecology and biodiversity of
phytoplankton red tides using satellite remote sensing. Class and/or
genus-specific algorithms for phytoplankton identification based on
optical bloom type clustering and inversion of diagnostic pigments will
be developed, and applied to high-resolution satellite data in
conjunction with field observations (data from phytoplankton monitoring
network and citizen science), to create time-series of red tide events
along the French coastline. Time-series of phytoplankton blooms will be
analyzed to study the spatiotemporal dynamics of coastal red tides, in
terms of phenology and long-term inter-annual variations.
The full job ad is attached. Deadline to apply is 31 July 2024 (with
possible extension in case no suitable candidate has been selected),
with a start around October 2024 (ideally).