The EPA Environmental Research and Business Support Program has immediate openings for two Atmospheric Modeling Support positions with the Office of Research and Development at the EPA’s Research Triangle facility in Raleigh-Durham, NC.
This opportunity is located in ORD’s National Exposure Research Laboratory (NERL), Computational Exposure Division (CED), which develops, evaluates and applies models and decision support tools to characterize fate and transport in environmental media and the resulting human and ecosystem exposures. CED is comprised of approximately 70 Federal staff across four branches and an immediate office. CED staff are located in RTP, NC, and Athens, GA.
The CED staff consists of atmospheric scientists, meteorologists, hydrologists, exposure scientists, toxicologists, computer scientists and programmers, statisticians and mathematicians. The Division is diverse in scientific expertise and workforce. Researchers within CED participate in all six of the ORD National Research Programs (Air and Energy; Chemical Safety for Sustainability; Homeland Security; Human Health Risk Assessment; Safe and Sustainable Water Resources; and Sustainable and Healthy Communities).
Scientists in NERL’s Computation Exposure Division develop and apply large scale comprehensive atmospheric systems to study various aspects of air pollution. The Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling (CMAQ) system (www.epa.gov/cmaq) is an active open-source development project of the U.S. EPA that consists of a suite of programs for conducting air quality model simulations. CMAQ combines current knowledge in atmospheric science and air quality modeling, multi-processor computing techniques, and an open-source framework to deliver fast, technically sound estimates of ozone, particulates, toxics and acid deposition (https://www.epa.gov/cmaq).