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CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spatial Analysis/Applied Statistics - Mineral Systems
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CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system.
The CERC Fellow will conduct research anticipated to be centred around developing and deploying state of the art statistical methods (informed from fields including Bayesian geophysical inversion, machine learning and artificial intelligence, and/or geostatistics) to enhance the predictive power of prospectivity mapping. This will require, for example, the integration of a wide range of geoscience datasets and the development of novel methods for feature extraction. The first phase of the project will focus on geophysical data and products, but will later shift towards exploring avenues to harness the information contained in geological, geochemical and geochronological datasets.
The position will also provide the CERC Fellow with an opportunity to establish collaborative links with Exploring for the Future. The Australian Government’s $225 million Exploring for the Future program led by Geoscience Australia (GA) is committed to supporting a strong economy, resilient society and sustainable environment for the benefit of Australians (https://www.ga.gov.au/eftf). At its heart, the program is about stimulating industry now to ensure a sustainable, long-term future for Australia through an improved understanding of the nation’s minerals, energy and groundwater resource potential. By gathering and analysing geological and geophysical data and making the results publicly available, the program supports regional development and informed decision making across Australia, resulting in jobs and growth. The delivery of pre-competitive geoscience datasets for resource exploration by government to the mineral exploration industry has been shown to support the discovery of economically significant mineralisation such as the Julimar Nickel-PGE project and the Lake Wells potash deposit, both of which are in Western Australia (http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145195).
Location: Black Mountain, Canberra, ACT and embedded onsite with Geoscience Australia for a minimum of 3 days per week
Salary: AU$89k - AU$98k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified term of 3 years
Reference: 84101
For full details about this role please view the Position Description
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Please apply on-line and provide a cover letter and CV that best demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the requirements of this role.
2 August 2022, 11:00pm AEST