Postdoc: Agri-Engineering Climate Analytics & Crop Risk

University of Florida; Gainesville (FL); On-site; USD 48,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Florida’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering department seeks a post-doctoral research associate to join the AgroClimate group at Gainesville. The role will perform computational spatio-temporal analysis to identify how climate variability and extreme events influence crop growth and development.

Primary duties (70%) involve quantifying crop production risk from climate anomalies for a USDA-NIFA funded project; (30%) support a national strawberry disease risk project using

Qualifications

• A Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Geography, Meteorology or closely related field with background in geospatial analysis is required.
• Preferred: Experience with R/Python programming languages is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and quantify crop production risk associated with climate anomalies for a USDA-NIFA funded project.
• Provide support to a national strawberry disease risk project using weather stations and gridded weather data.

Skills

Geospatial analysis

R programming

Python programming

Education

Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering or closely related field

Tools

R

Python

Job description

The University of Florida’s Agricultural and Biological Engineering department seeks a post-doctoral research associate to join the AgroClimate group at Gainesville. The role will perform computational spatio-temporal analysis to identify how climate variability and extreme events influence crop growth and development.

Primary duties (70%) involve quantifying crop production risk from climate anomalies for a USDA-NIFA funded project; (30%) support a national strawberry disease risk project using