The Currents group at the University of Hawaii serves the US oceanographic research community by providing software and advice for ocean current measurements, primarily using shipboard acoustic Doppler current profilers. We are looking for someone who enjoys working in Python on Open Source software, visualizing ocean current structures, contributing to the nation’s oceanographic research enterprise, and interacting with technicians and scientists throughout the country. This position is located at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu. The new UHDAS Team member will become familiar with our operations, including supporting the UHDAS shipboard ADCP installations at sea, installing software to build up the computers used, post-processing UHDAS data, answering questions from the larger shipboard ADCP community, and to varying degrees, the software we use to do all this.
This position is engaged in the day-to-day operations, reading daily automated emails from the ships, screened by our Ticketing system, interating with technicians at sea to keep the sytems running with the best configurations, calibrations, and data feeds. This position will include linux system maintenance, and several trips per year for software installation.
The job posting pdf is here. Applications accepted through Friday Sept 22, 2023.
Jules Hummon Sept 4, 2023