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Professional Scientist II

Requisition Number:

63076

Location:

Boulder, Colorado

City

Boulder

State

Colorado

Employment Type:

Research Faculty

Schedule:

Full-Time

Posting Close Date:

16-Apr-2025

Date Posted:

02-Apr-2025
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Job Summary

As the University's oldest institute, INSTAAR has a long history of responding to pressing environmental issues including climate change. Our traditional focus has been on alpine, Arctic, and Antarctic regions, where effects of global change are especially pronounced. In recent decades, our research has broadened to include environmental challenges that span local, regional, and global scales. INSTAAR’s research activities integrate field studies, state-of-the-art laboratory experiments, sample analysis, and numerical and laboratory modeling. Our field sites are located across all seven continents and the world's oceans.

Our expertise across disciplines helps us generate influential science that can inform public and policy decisions and move us toward a more sustainable society. INSTAAR's national and international research leadership is augmented by exceptional strength in graduate education and bringing undergraduates into the research process.

The University of Colorado Boulder is committed to building a culturally diverse community of faculty, staff, and students dedicated to contributing to an inclusive campus environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

What Your Key Responsibilities Will Be

We are seeking a Project Manager who has skills as an analytical chemist to support the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long-Term Ecological Research (MCM LTER) project and its participants in the following ways:

  1. Help to plan each field season by coordinating planning across groups and field teams, and generating and harmonizing planning documents required by the US Antarctic Program and its contractors.
  2. Coordinate the planning and successful execution of annual team meetings (typically 2 per year) and regular online meetings.
  3. Coordinate and support field team deployment and activities from McMurdo Station, including permitting in accordance with Antarctic Science Contractor regulations.
  4. Help PIs orchestrate annual reports to the sponsor.
  5. Analyze stream and lake samples for a standard suite of constituents (i.e., dissolved organic carbon, major ions, and nutrients) both in McMurdo and in the US in coordination with the Geochemistry PI.
  6. Organize and provide QA/QC’d chemistry data and related metadata to the project information manager in a timely manner (i.e., before the next season begins) in coordination with the Geochemistry PI.
  7. Assist lead PI in grant-related and renewal development activities.

What You Should Know

  • The project is currently led by CU Boulder with collaborators at 9 other institutions across the US.
  • The broader project generally conducts field work deployed in 7 field teams.
  • Support for this position is dependent upon grant funding.

What We Can Offer

$72,000 - $75,000/year.

Benefits

The University of Colorado offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO Pass. The University of Colorado Boulder is one of the largest employers in Boulder County and offers an inspiring higher education environment. Learn more about the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Be ambitious. Be groundbreaking. Be Boulder.

What We Require

  • The candidate must be able to deploy to Antarctica for extended periods of time (October to February) to fulfill the responsibilities of this position. Deployment requires a full physical qualification process each year.
  • The candidate may be required to travel to partner institutions in the boreal summer to collect geochemical data.
  • Experience with ion chromatography analysis, colorimetric nutrient analysis, and total organic carbon analysis.
  • A background in analytical chemistry is required with a BS in related field.
  • Collaborative attitude and dedication to supporting team success. 

What We Would Like You to Have

  • Background in Antarctic or other remote field station deployment.
  • Analysis of standard constituents in challenging aquatic media (e.g., brines).
  • Organization skills, proficiency with data processing tools.
  • MS in environmental science or related field. 

Special Instructions

To apply, please submit the following materials:

  1. Resume or CV.
  2. Cover Letter addressed to the Search Committee briefly describing your qualifications, professional goals, and specific interest in this position.

If you are selected as the finalist, your degree will be verified by the CU Boulder Campus Human Resources department using an approved online vendor. If your degree was obtained outside of the United States, please submit a translated version as an optional attachment.

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until 4/16/25.

Note: Application materials will not be accepted via email. For consideration, applications must be submitted through CU Boulder Jobs.


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Posting Contact Information

Posting Contact Name: Boulder Campus Human Resources

Posting Contact Email: Recruiting@colorado.edu