Postdoctoral Fellowship In Digital Soil Health Benchmarking

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**Role highlights**
- **Launch your career at Australia's National Research Organisation**:

- **Develop a soil health framework for Australian agricultural production systems**:

- **Join the CSIRO's Soil and Landscapes Group in Canberra**

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**The opportunity**

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.

**Your high-level duties will include**:
- Carry out research investigations requiring originality, creativity and innovation.
- Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, often regionally dispersed research team, to undertake independent scientific investigations and carry out associated tasks under broad guidance from other Research Scientists.
- Conceptualise, design and test a novel framework for soil health assessments of Australian agricultural soil resources, taking into account current international and domestic literature, frameworks and expert opinion.
- Integrate several tiers of spatially explicit, and where applicable, temporal soil data including conventionally measured, proximally and remotely sensed into tools and metrics to support soil health benchmarking and thresholding.
- Carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO that will, where possible, lead to novel and important scientific outcomes.
- Recognise and exploit opportunities for innovation and the generation of new theoretical perspectives, and progress opportunities for the further development or creation of new lines of research.
- Record, manage, and analyse data/information using relevant domain data science techniques.

**Role particulars**

**Location and office arrangements**:Canberra (Black Mountain), ACT

**Salary**: AU$99,990 - AU$109,527 pa (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure & work schedule**: Specified term of 3 years, Full-time

**Reference**:100852

**Essential criteria**
- A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD). The doctorate must be in a relevant discipline area of soil science, such as soil condition and function assessment, pedometrics, digital soil mapping, soil spatial and temporal analysis.
- Please note: To be eligible for this role you must have **no more than 3 years** (full-time equivalent) of relevant research experience.
- A sound understanding of Australian and/or international soil systems, farming systems, soil spatial variability and agro-ecosystem function.
- Demonstrated knowledge and skills in designing and implementing field-based research aimed at quantifying or modelling the state and function of soils across spatially variable landscapes.
- Applied experience in using statistical and mathematical tools to analyse and interpret soil data, spatial modelling, multivariate statistics and/or machine learning, and relevant coding languages (e.g. R, Python), including a sound understanding of FAIR data principles, data management and version control.
- A current Australian driver's licence or the ability to obtain one.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description.

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**Setting you up for success**

**Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements**

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO.

**Inclusion and belonging**

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