The Department of Meteorology and Climate Science at San José State University (SJSU) is seeking applicants for the post of Assistant Professor with a specialization in Western US weather as it relates to precipitation events, together with impacts of climate change. Applicants must have completed a PhD in Atmospheric Science or a closely-related field by the start of the appointment. Applicants should have awareness of and sensitivity to educational goals of a multicultural population as might have been gained in cross-cultural study, training, teaching and other comparable experience.

Note: The submission deadline for the Raskin Scholarship has been extended to October 15, 2015.

The Federation of Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) is an open networked community that brings together science, data and information technology practitioners around Earth science issues.

The Raskin Scholarship is open to a current graduate student in good standing at an institution affiliated with the ESIP Federation. To be considered for the scholarship, students must be studying an Earth science, computer science or closely related discipline and have an interest in fields related to current technical, scientific or applied activities of the ESIP Federation. The Scholarship will provide a $2000 stipend and travel support to the ESIP Federation bi-annual meetings. The Raskin Scholar will have an invited talk covering their field of interest at the ESIP Summer Meeting.

New Unidata committee members

The Unidata Program Center is pleased to welcome new members to the program's governing committees. Committee members normally serve three-year terms; terms are finishing up for six members of the Users committee and three members of the Strategic Advisory committee. New members and those finishing their terms will overlap for one meeting, which will take place at the end of September.

The UPC staff looks forward to working with our new committee members, and to having all the current members of both committees at the Program Center in Boulder, Colorado this fall.

The National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is looking to hire a Systems Integration Branch Chief. This position supervises a team of seven software developers (FTEs) and oversees 10-15 contractors with a focus in the NCEP software migration from NAWIPS to AWIPS II and the enhancements of the NOMADS and MAG websites.

The National Weather Service/National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) is looking to hire a Senior Operations Specialist to serve as a member of the Operations Team in the Production Management Branch (PMB) of NCEP Central Operations (NCO). The position entails working alongside the Senior Duty Meteorologist to provide 24x7 monitoring of the NCEP Production Suite and the WCOSS supercomputer system.