Weather Radar Data Analyst

Overview

At PNNL, our core capabilities are divided among major departments that we refer to as Directorates within the Lab, focused on a specific area of scientific research or other function, with its own leadership team and dedicated budget.

Our Science & Technology directorates include National Security, Earth and Biological Sciences, Physical and Computational Sciences, and Energy and Environment. In addition, we have an Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a Department of Energy, Office of Science user facility housed on the PNNL campus.

The Earth and Biological Sciences Directorate (EBSD) leads critical research in four areas:
Atmospheric, Climate & Earth Sciences, Biological Sciences, Environmental Molecular Sciences, and Global Change. Our vision is to develop a predictive understanding of biological and Earth systems in transition. We aim to understand energy and material flows within the integrated Earth system; to understand, predict, and control the response of biosystems to environmental and/or genomic changes; and to model the Earth system from the subsurface to the atmosphere.

The Atmospheric, Climate, and Earth Sciences (ACES) Division comprises multidisciplinary teams working to advance the predictive knowledge of Earth systems. The ACES team includes researchers at every career stage who collaborate across disciplines to address some of the most pressing challenges which are critical to ensure a robust U.S. energy system. Scientists in ACES provide their expertise to major sections of the Department of Energy's Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, the Atmospheric System Research program, and the Earth & Environmental Systems Modeling program.

The Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) facility operates and maintains a network of fixed and mobile atmospheric observatories providing data to the atmospheric research community (https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).). ARM observatories include a broad array of instrumentation including radars, lidars, radiometers, and meteorological sensors. The candidate will become a member of a team of scientists, engineers, and technicians responsible for characterizing and processing data from precipitation and cloud radars deployed around the world to ensure the data are research quality to meet the needs of the scientific community.

The Earth System Measurements and Data Group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) seeks a radar data expert to serve a critical function within ARM. This position will work closely with the radar data and hardware engineering teams and other ARM staff such as site operations staff, the data quality office, and data product developers. Travel is expected to 1‑2 ARM‑related meetings and a radar science/technology meeting each year (