Satellite Product Modeler

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The IRD for this job is : 09-22-2025

ABOUT UC SANTA CRUZ

UC Santa Cruz is a public university like no other in California, combining the experience of a small, liberal arts college with the depth and rigor of a major research university. It's known as an unconventional place where innovation and experimentation is part of the campus's DNA. That playful, bold spirit still thrives today, all on a campus renowned as among the most beautiful in the world.

DEPARTMENT OVERVIEW

The Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS) is an organized research unit whose mission is to increase knowledge of the world's oceans and inhabitants to better understand their economic importance and the impact people have on them.

Through this effort, IMS maintains the responsibility to encourage, develop, and support marine research and education and does this by providing research opportunities, resources, facilities, and support for scientists within the institute and with other marine research institutions.

As part of its mission's efforts, IMS launched the Fisheries Collaborative Program (FCP) to help foster research collaborations between NOAA scientists, UCSC faculty, IMS researchers, and students. The FCP's research activities include field and laboratory experiments, modeling, and computational studies and they involve marine and freshwater species and habitats where comprehensive studies are being conducted on the ecology and life history of Pacific salmonids and other fishes. The FCP serves to support resource managers (e.g., Pacific Fisheries Management Council), fisheries, and resource science in general.

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JOB SUMMARY

Working in the Fisheries Collaborative Program (FCP) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the Satellite Product Modeler addresses challenges in integrative research on ocean ecosystems off the US West Coast. The FCP is a community of UC and NOAA fisheries researchers focused on providing science to support monitoring and management of marine resources, and has a diverse research portfolio spanning multiple ecosystems, spatial scales, and levels of ecosystem organization. The Satellite Product Modeler works under the general direction of an FCP Research Team Lead and in collaboration with NOAA Fisheries and the NOAA CoastWatch Program. As a member of the FCP, the incumbent provides computer programming and data management expertise to support a workgroup of researchers using satellite algorithm-based models to track marine environmental conditions, generate habitat distribution maps, and produce forecasts for environmental anomalies like harmful algal blooms. The incumbent contributes to the development of reproducible workflows for satellite-based products, migrates them to a cloud environment, and ensures cloud-based distribution of the products. This position requires a strong aptitude for computer programming. Specific duties and responsibilities include 1) Provide programming support for a team developing cloud-based workflows for satellite environmental data products; 2) Manage the migration of environmental data, applications, and software to the cloud, with the goal of providing data access in a cloud environment for data server applications such as ERDDAP and THREDDS; 3) Use the software tools developed by this team to support FCP / NOAA teams developing cloud-based workflows for environmental data, emphasizing reproducible approaches. Programming support will include generating code to integrate scientific models written in a variety of program languages (e.g., Python, Shell scripting, R, etc) to streamline workflow and couple models (algorithms). This will require the incumbent to provide guidance for data systems management, provide clear documentation of workflow, demonstrate familiarity with large datasets and version control, demonstrate familiarity with cloud computing, and demonstrate a commitment to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reproducible) guiding principles. Once the workflow is established for a pilot migration project, it will be adapted and applied to larger migration projects within the FCP, NOAA Fisheries, and NOAA CoastWatch communities. This is an opportunity for the incumbent to generate novel workflows and communicate effectively with senior scientists to codify best practices and reproducible methods for those communities. The hiring unit will not sponsor employment-eligible immigration statuses for this position.

APPOINTMENT INFORMATION

Budgeted Salary : $95,250.00 / year - $105,000.00 / year. Salary commensurate with skills, qualifications and experience.

Under California law, the University of California, Santa Cruz is required to post a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. The salary shown above is the budgeted amount the University reasonably expects to pay and the salary extended should not exceed this posted amount.

Benefits Level Eligibility : Full benefits

Schedule Information :

Employee Classification : Career appointment

Job End Date : None

Work Location : Remote

Union Representation : Non-Represented

Job Code Classification : 007300 (APPLICATIONS PROGR 3) - Grade 22

Travel : Never or Rarely

JOB DUTIES

35% - Project Development

30% - Coding and Workflow Implementation

25% - Documentation

10% - Distribution and Technology Transfer

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Thorough experience with identification and use of code libraries and open-source forums, and commitment to FAIR practices and reproducible science.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

MISCONDUCT DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT

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