Hydrologist

• Broadband 3 (Research Scientists Only), Ongoing/Non-ongoing
• $94,563 - $125, % super
• Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Hobart, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

The Bureau's Research Program sits within the Science and Innovation Group and is the main driver of science-based innovation in the Bureau of Meteorology. In supporting the Bureau to deliver impactful weather, climate, ocean and water information services, the research contributes to advancing meteorological and earth system sciences in Australia and globally. Research activities cover the broad fields of weather, climate, oceanography, earth systems modelling, data set development, process studies, and application development

The Hydrological Modelling team of the Bureau's Research Program is seeking a talented and highly-motivated hydrological scientist with strong background in soil hydrology and land surface modelling. The successful candidate will undertake novel research into hydrological and land surface dynamics modelling for Australian conditions in an Earth System Modelling framework within the Hydrological Modelling team. This role will contribute to the improvement of soil hydrological processes in the land surface modelling for the future Australian water resources assessment and operational products. The Hydrologist is also expected to contribute to discussions on the definition and progression of the research program's main aims and will need to have:

• Demonstrated experience in land surface modelling with a particular focus on soil hydrology, and vegetation dynamics. Therefore, a strong knowledge of soil physics and hydrological processes across multiple spatial and temporal scales, in particular Australian soil and climate systems, is required.
• Experience in the evaluation of spatio-temporal data sets originating from models and observations.
• Flexibility to work effectively and productively as a member of a team under the direction of more senior scientists, and an ability to plan and undertake research and to publish research results.
• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to write science papers, work plans, present work orally, and translate science outcomes in ways which can be understood by non-expert audiences.
• Good analytical and scientific programming skills, including experience with Linux (preferably in a high-performance computing environment), and with scientific and visualisation.

The role involves close collaboration with scientific and technical staff across the Research Program, and with other Bureau employees and international stakeholders, requiring experience in liaising effectively with external stakeholders.

The Hydrologist role in research is to support and lead research in select projects, and to interact with scientists and external research projects, working collaboratively with Bureau internal staff to deliver research to operations, and working with customers where required.

Tasks include setting up, parameterising, and developing land surface models, to advance soil hydrological processes, such as infiltration, soil surface evaporation and surface ponding.

Openness to collaborate across the Hydrology Sciences section and other teams within Research as well as Research to Operations teams is expected to increase the success of the project deliveries and operationalisation.

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