Job Description Summary:

We are pleased to announce the 2025 call for applications for NOAA’s Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral (C&GC) Fellowship program.

The Fellowship program has an outstanding reputation for attracting the best and the brightest PhDs in the sciences, and for training future leaders in Climate and Global Change Science. The C&GC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is seeking applications across the full breadth of disciplines contributing to Climate and Global Change Science.

Innovative research within and across disciplines that span the spectrum of the physical, social, and integrated sciences is needed to understand, better predict, plan for, and manage the Earth System and its interactions in a changing climate, as well as how communities experience and are impacted by these changes, and how society will pursue low-carbon adaptation pathways for a secure and sustainable future. NOAA’s Science Council emphasizes the importance of extramural investments in climate science spanning observations, analysis, modeling, and the integration of social, behavioral, and economic research across NOAA mission areas (NOAA Strategic Research Guidance Memorandum FY25). Each appointed Fellow is hosted by a mentoring scientist at a U.S. university or research institution (including Federal laboratories and Federally-funded Research and Development Centers, like NOAA and UCAR) to work in an innovative climate-related research area of mutual interest to advance NOAA’s science mission. This mission is to understand and predict climate, weather, oceans, and coast changes and illustrate relevance to the NOAA FY22-26 Strategic Plan. For example, our plan calls for Integrated Breakthrough Climate Research under the Build a Climate Ready Nation goal.

NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Fellows focus on advancing Climate and Global Change Science. This includes science that furthers our understanding of physical earth system processes, climate impacts, and climate adaptation science. Examples include: observing, understanding, modeling, and predicting climate variability, change, and impacts on seasonal and longer time scales; documentation and analysis of past, current, or possible future climate variability and change; the study of the underlying Earth Systems processes, including physical-, chemical-, biological-, biogeochemical-, coupled human-systems processes, and/or their interactions. Coupled human-systems processes include climate adaptation science and its methods and analyses considering vulnerabilities, decision-making contexts, and/or policy pathways for a low-carbon, sustainable, and equitable future society. Applications may be focused on one discipline or be interdisciplinary, integrating across disciplines.

C&GC Fellows are UCAR employees and receive a fixed annual salary, plus UCAR’s benefits and allowances for relocation, travel, and publications. The program is sponsored by the NOAA Climate Program Office.

Position Details:

Visa Sponsored Job:

Yes

Relocation Assistance Eligible:

Yes

Job Location:

Boulder, Colorado

Position Type & Term:

Full time, Term - 6 months or more (Fixed Term)

Compensation Range:

$80,480

*Final salary and rates are based on education, experience, and skills relevant to the role.*

Application Notes

Application Deadline: This position will be posted until 11:59pm MT, January 10, 2025. Late applications will not be accepted.

Required application materials (compiled into 1 PDF): 

• Application Questionnaire (answered within the online application)

  • Ensure you have the names and contact information of your professional reference letter writers handy (note, you must provide TWO references - one of which may be your PhD advisor), as you must provide it during the application process.  

• Full Application Packet - Please refer to the Required Application Documents listed below for a list of all the required material.

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Work Location: This position is open to anyone seeking in-person research opportunities at any of the proposed U.S. Universities or Research Institutions listed below, and i