The CIROH @ UVM Floodplains Team is seeking a Research Assistant to assist with the management and manipulation of large geospatial and environmental datasets for characterizing river and floodplain morphology and hydraulic parameterization of flood routing and inundation mapping. The Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) is a national consortium of science and services to provide actionable water resources intelligence to improve a national water model and flood forecasting. CIROH works closely with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Water Center and the U.S. Geological Survey Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility allowing for highly productive collaboration between CIROH’s cooperative members and other federal agency scientists. More information about CIROH @ UVM can be found at https://www.uvm.edu/ciroh/.
 
The Assistant will be expected to work closely with the research team and contribute to data science, geospatial data management, and hydraulic model operation. The Research Assistant will execute workflows developed in Python for extraction of river and floodplain morphologic features from geospatial datasets, which are being developed by the Floodplains team, to regions outside of Vermont. Other tasks will include manipulation and evaluation of the outputs from two-dimensional hydraulic models and analyzing spatial variability in morphologic and hydraulic parameters.
 
The successful candidate may have an undergraduate degree in a computational field (e.g., engineering, computer science) or equivalent experience in computational data management with a degree in geosciences, natural resources, or similar. The candidate should have experience manipulating and analyzing large datasets in GIS (e.g., ArcGIS or QGIS) and in database management tools (e.g., Excel). It is desirable that the candidate is familiar with a programming language, notably Python, has been exposed to hydraulic modeling tools or concepts, and has a familiarity with water resources and geomorphology. Preference will be given to candidates with experience working in a collaborative environment and have an interest in contributing to an academic research project.
 
The anticipated start date is June 1, 2024, but there is some flexibility for the ideal candidate. Applications will be considered until the position is filled.
 
Please contact Rebecca Diehl (Rebecca.Diehl@uvm.edu) for more information.
 
You can find the job posting here: https://www.uvmjobs.com/postings/70392