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Job Field: Office Jobs
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Salary: $-
Job Type: Part Time

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               <td align="left"><font style="font-size: 100%;">RESEARCH SCIENTIST/ENGINEER 3<BR><BR><BR>Req #: 81010<BR>Department: CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING<BR>Job Location: Seattle Campus<BR>Job Location Detail: More Hall <BR>Posting Date: 01/30/2012 <BR>Closing Info: Open Until Filled <BR>Salary: <BR>Salary and benefits are competitive. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. <BR><BR><BR>The University of Washington (UW) is proud to be one of the nation?s premier educational and research institutions. Our people are the most important asset in our pursuit of achieving excellence in education, research, and community service. Our staff not only enjoys outstanding benefits and professional growth opportunities, but also an environment noted for diversity, community involvement, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits, and natural beauty.<BR><BR>Our Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering has an outstanding opportunity for a Research Scientist/Engineer 3.<BR><BR>This is a fully functional professional level - may be entry level for PhD who has been in a post-doc position for one/two years or has equivalent experience related to area of specialization. Independently evaluates, selects and applies standardized scientific or engineering procedures and techniques to assignments of moderate complexity, involving potentially conflicting design requirements, unavailability of materials or processes, etc. Incumbent seeks continual improvement of work practices from experience with moderate-sized projects; develops extensions to existing methods and protocols. Performance at this level requires developmental experience in a professional position, or equivalent graduate level education.<BR><BR>Incumbent is establishing distinguishing technical expertise in the field of hydrological modeling and prediction; has broad knowledge of principles, practices and procedures of hydrological modeling and prediction. Knowledge of a primary programing language such as C or Fortran; working knowledge of Unix and Unix shell scripts.<BR><BR>Assigned work under general guidance; receives instruction on specific assignment objectives, complex features, and possible solutions. Assistance is furnished on unusual problems, and work is reviewed for application of sound professional judgment.<BR><BR>Typical duties and responsibilities: Manage projects of moderate size and scope; Produces national and global land surface hydrological simulations multiple land surface models under current and projected future climate conditions, specifically as using statistically downscaled projected from IPCC AR5 model output. Make substantial contributions to determining feasibility of goals and objectives and interpreting model projections. Identifies problems and related technical issues leading to long-term, generic solutions; identifies technical approach for solving problems and meeting customer/grantor needs. Develop and/or modifies statistical downscaling methods for application to climate mode output, and applies output as forcing to land surface hydrology models over the contin                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 </font></td>
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