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The Biogeochemical Oceanographer will be joining our research team, with a primary focus of managing the Biogeochemical (BGC) Argo floats as part of our major 'Argo' project. The IMOS Biogeochemical Argo sub-facility deploys BGC Argo floats in scientifically important areas of Australia's Exclusive Economic Zone, surrounding seas and the Southern Ocean.
The role involves bringing domain expertise and project management skills into the position, ensuring the Australian BGC Argo remains at the state-of-the-art standard, and gets opportunities to deploy floats in key scientific experiments. The Biogeochemical Oceanographer will effectively manage the project deliverables and quality assurance procedures, as well as interact with the wider Argo project to plan the floats deployments, and develop opportunities to deploy the BGC Argo floats.
Key responsibilities include:
* Monitoring and maintaining the real-time operations of the BGC-Argo Australia program, including the processing and dissemination of data in real-time.
* Liaising with the Argo project coders, overseeing the maintenance of an existing suite of software, and contributing to the development of the next generation of software to future-proof the program.
* Working in close relation with the Core Argo team for the Temperature and Salinity standard quality monitoring, and overseeing the quality assurance and quality control of the other sensors specific to BGC Argo.
* Managing and monitoring the performance of the operational BGC floats, including analysing their data return and engineering metrics to identify floats that may be developing problems (e.g., slow leaks, groundings, sensor issues), and providing timely adjustment for BGC sensors to the Real Time processing chain.
* Ensuring the Delayed Mode QC and continuing the development of MATLAB tools.
* Maintaining engagement with the International Argo Data Management Team, and International BGC-Argo teams to ensure that Argo Australia's data standards comply with international requirements and best practice.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a passion in contributing to monitoring our oceans with robotic floats, and an interest in being a key player in a critical research project.