Jobs UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER

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.

Tasks will include the research of Hydromet Security-related articles and papers, collating them into a document used for support of a research publication or journal article. Assessing this research with a legal /law approach will necessary and beneficial for this application. Also, data collection and organization used in google suite for analysis. 

$20/hour.

• Master's Degree.

• Familiarity with climate water and weather-related impacts to society and specifically how those risks affect river basins.
• Knowledge and demonstrated work about the legal system and how interdisciplinary research and intergenerational communication plays a role in the implementation of science (in the form of alerts, forecasts and warnings to at risk populations).
• A background in climate science is a requirement and work with groups as well as a lone will be very beneficial. 

• Law Degree, Climate-related work experience, data analysis (especially with Google suite).