Postdoctoral Research Associate in Radionuclide and Isotope Geochemistry
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info; remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section only when posting has real specific content for it; never emit heading with filler placeholder. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Key content:
- What You Will Do: description of role: investigating environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport; lab and field-relevant measurements; lab experiments; develop analytical workflows; analyze experimental and environmental samples; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results; contribute to new research; jointly mentored by scientists in C-NR and EES-15; position is two-year term, possible third year extension.
- What You Need: Minimum Job Requirements: Ph.D. in certain fields; experience experimentally investigating reactive transport, groundwater flow, solute transport, geochemical reactions, related coupled subsurface processes; experience with isotope ratio measurements using gas source magnetic sector mass spectrometers, quadrupole mass spectrometers, cavity ring down spectroscopy and associated preparation of gaseous and aqueous samples; record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals; ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship. Education/Experience: Ph.D. within last five years in STEM field, or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement.
- Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation monitoring, subsurface radionuclide transport, or environmental radiochemistry; lab experience with batch sorption, diffusion cells, columns, core flooding systems, gas transport measurements, or other experiments relevant to subsurface transport; demonstrated ability to integrate modeling and experimental research and translate lab-scale observations to field-scale predictions.
- Work Environment: Work Location: onsite Los Alamos, NM. All work locations at discretion of management.
- Note to Applicants: application package includes CV and one-page cover letter describing how candidate meets minimum requirements and any relevant desired qualifications. In addition to applying online, candidates may email CV and cover letter to Drs. Hayden Miller and Chelsea Neil. Outstanding candidates may be considered for fellowships. For info about application process, postdoctoral salaries, and fellowships, visit LANL Postdoctoral Research Program. Due to federal restrictions... (citizenship restrictions). This is legal boilerplate; we should remove.
- Where You Will Work: description of LANL location; benefits package includes: PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with same large nationwide network; Dental and vision insurance; Free basic life and disability insurance; Paid childbirth and parental leave; Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually); Learning opportunities and tuition assistance; Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays); Onsite gyms and wellness programs; Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius).
- Additional Details: Directive 206.2 etc. (legal). No Clearance: Position does not require a security clearance. Selected candidates will be subject to drug testing and other pre-employment background checks. New-Employment Drug Test: etc. (legal). Internal Applicants: etc. (legal). Equal Opportunity: etc. (legal). Instructions on How to Activate/Create a LANL Jobs Account: etc. (application instructions). We need to remove all that boilerplate.
We need to keep substantive info: role description, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, benefits, work location, term length, maybe fellowships mention? The fellowships info is part of note to applicants; but it's substantive? It mentions outstanding candidates may be considered for Director's Fellowship or J. Robert Oppenheimer, etc. That's maybe worth keeping as part of "Benefits" or "Opportunities". However it's more about fellowships; could be included under "Benefits" or "Opportunities". But we have limited headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which sections to include based on content.
We have:
- About the role: could be a brief overview (What You Will Do). Could be under "About the role" heading.
- Responsibilities: list of duties (conduct lab and field-relevant measurements, develop workflows, analyze samples, prepare reports, present results, contribute to new research, work within team, etc.)
- Requirements: minimum job requirements (Ph.D., experience, isotope ratio measurement experience, publishing record, ability to obtain Q clearance, Ph.D. within last five years).
- Qualifications: desired qualifications (knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation, lab experience with batch sorption etc., ability to integrate modeling and experimental research).
- Skills: maybe we could list specific skills like isotope ratio mass spectrometry, experimental design, data analysis, technical writing, presentation, teamwork. But we might not have explicit list; we could infer from responsibilities. However we should not invent details. Better to not create a Skills section if we don't have explicit skill list. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But headings are predefined; we can choose to include only those with real content. We could have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. Possibly also Work Location (could be under About the role or Benefits). Pay: not specified (no salary info). Schedule: not specified (no schedule). So we should not create Pay or Schedule sections because they'd be filler.
Thus output sections: About the role (h3), Responsibilities (h3), Requirements (h3), Qualifications (h3), Benefits (h3). Possibly also Work Location (maybe under About the role). But we can include Work Location as a paragraph inside About the role or Benefits. However we have a specific bullet about work location: "Work Location: The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management." That's substantive; we could include it under About the role or as its own section? There's no heading for Work Location in the list; we could put it under About the role as a paragraph.
Benefits: we have a list of benefits.
We need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits we should use lists.
For About the role, we can use prose (
).
We must not repeat job title as heading. No job ID.
We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the sections we keep.
Let's extract details:
About the role (What You Will Do):
- The Analytical Earth Science Group (EES-15) at LANL seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport in support of subsurface nuclear proliferation monitoring.
- Successful candidate will conduct laboratory and field-relevant measurements to determine how physical and geochemical transport processes influence generation, migration, detectability of isotopic signatures in subsurface.
- Position includes laboratory experiments designed to connect isotope measurements with specific transport mechanisms. These may include batch reaction, diffusion cell, or column gas transport experiments under conditions representative of subsurface porous and fractured geologic media.
- Candidate will develop and apply analytical workflows for sample preparation, experimental measurements, and data analysis using appropriate techniques.
- Candidate will analyze experimental and environmental samples, including isotope ratio mass spectrometry measurements of transport signatures, and integrate measurements with complementary geochemical and physical observations.
- Successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team of analytical chemists, geochemists, experimentalists, and computational earth scientists.
- They will develop reproducible experimental and data-analysis workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results at conferences and program reviews; and contribute to new research directions.
- Position expected to be jointly mentored by scientists in Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group (C-NR) and EES-15.
- Position is for a two-year term, with possibility of extension for a third year based on performance and funding availability.
That's all.
Responsibilities: Could be same as above but maybe we separate duties. However we already used What You Will Do for About the role. For Responsibilities we could list specific duties: conduct lab and field-relevant measurements; develop analytical workflows; analyze samples; prepare reports and publications; present results; contribute to new research; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible workflows; etc. But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we split into About the role and Responsibilities, we might duplicate content. Better to have only one section for duties? But we have headings list; we can choose to include only those sections that have real specific content. We could combine About the role and Responsibilities into one section called "About the role" (or "Responsibilities") but we need to follow the heading list: we can use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose any of those headings. We could have sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (detailed list), Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. That would avoid duplication if we split content appropriately.
Let's split:
About the role: brief overview: The Analytical Earth Science Group (EES-15) at LANL seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport in support of subsurface nuclear proliferation monitoring.
Responsibilities: list of duties: conduct laboratory and field-relevant measurements to determine how physical and geochemical transport processes influence generation, migration, detectability of isotopic signatures in subsurface; laboratory experiments (batch reaction, diffusion cell, column gas transport) under subsurface conditions; develop and apply analytical workflows for sample preparation, experimental measurements, data analysis; analyze experimental and environmental samples, including isotope ratio mass spectrometry measurements of transport signatures, integrate with complementary geochemical and physical observations; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible experimental and data-analysis workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results at conferences and program reviews; contribute to new research directions; position jointly mentored by scientists in C-NR and EES-15; position is two-year term with possible third-year extension.
Requirements: Minimum Job Requirements: Ph.D. in geochemistry, hydrogeology, earth science, environmental science or engineering, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering, or closely related field. Experience experimentally investigating reactive transport, groundwater flow and solute transport, geochemical reactions, or related coupled subsurface processes. Experience with isotope ratio measurements using gas source magnetic sector mass spectrometers, quadrupole mass spectrometers, and/or cavity ring down spectroscopy as well as associated preparation of gaseous and aqueous samples. Record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship. Education/Experience: Candidates must have received a Ph.D. within the last five years in a STEM field, or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement of appointment.
Qualifications: Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation monitoring, subsurface radionuclide transport, or environmental radiochemistry. Laboratory experience with batch sorption, diffusion cells, columns, core flooding systems, gas transport measurements, or other experiments relevant to subsurface transport. Demonstrated ability to integrate modeling and experimental research and to translate laboratory-scale observations into predictions relevant to field-scale systems.
Benefits: Work Location: onsite Los Alamos, NM. All work locations at discretion of management. Benefits package includes: PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with same large nationwide network; Dental and vision insurance; Free basic life and disability insurance; Paid childbirth and parental leave; Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve all substantive info; remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section only when posting has real specific content for it; never emit heading with filler placeholder. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Key content: - What You Will Do: description of role: investigating environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport; lab and field-relevant measurements; lab experiments; develop analytical workflows; analyze experimental and environmental samples; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results; contribute to new research; jointly mentored by scientists in C-NR and EES-15; position is two-year term, possible third year extension. - What You Need: Minimum Job Requirements: Ph.D. in certain fields; experience experimentally investigating reactive transport, groundwater flow, solute transport, geochemical reactions, related coupled subsurface processes; experience with isotope ratio measurements using gas source magnetic sector mass spectrometers, quadrupole mass spectrometers, cavity ring down spectroscopy and associated preparation of gaseous and aqueous samples; record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals; ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship. Education/Experience: Ph.D. within last five years in STEM field, or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement. - Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation monitoring, subsurface radionuclide transport, or environmental radiochemistry; lab experience with batch sorption, diffusion cells, columns, core flooding systems, gas transport measurements, or other experiments relevant to subsurface transport; demonstrated ability to integrate modeling and experimental research and translate lab-scale observations to field-scale predictions. - Work Environment: Work Location: onsite Los Alamos, NM. All work locations at discretion of management. - Note to Applicants: application package includes CV and one-page cover letter describing how candidate meets minimum requirements and any relevant desired qualifications. In addition to applying online, candidates may email CV and cover letter to Drs. Hayden Miller and Chelsea Neil. Outstanding candidates may be considered for fellowships. For info about application process, postdoctoral salaries, and fellowships, visit LANL Postdoctoral Research Program. Due to federal restrictions... (citizenship restrictions). This is legal boilerplate; we should remove. - Where You Will Work: description of LANL location; benefits package includes: PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with same large nationwide network; Dental and vision insurance; Free basic life and disability insurance; Paid childbirth and parental leave; Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.5% annually); Learning opportunities and tuition assistance; Flexible schedules and time off (PTO and holidays); Onsite gyms and wellness programs; Extensive relocation packages (outside a 50 mile radius). - Additional Details: Directive 206.2 etc. (legal). No Clearance: Position does not require a security clearance. Selected candidates will be subject to drug testing and other pre-employment background checks. New-Employment Drug Test: etc. (legal). Internal Applicants: etc. (legal). Equal Opportunity: etc. (legal). Instructions on How to Activate/Create a LANL Jobs Account: etc. (application instructions). We need to remove all that boilerplate. We need to keep substantive info: role description, responsibilities, requirements, qualifications, benefits, work location, term length, maybe fellowships mention? The fellowships info is part of note to applicants; but it's substantive? It mentions outstanding candidates may be considered for Director's Fellowship or J. Robert Oppenheimer, etc. That's maybe worth keeping as part of "Benefits" or "Opportunities". However it's more about fellowships; could be included under "Benefits" or "Opportunities". But we have limited headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can choose which sections to include based on content. We have: - About the role: could be a brief overview (What You Will Do). Could be under "About the role" heading. - Responsibilities: list of duties (conduct lab and field-relevant measurements, develop workflows, analyze samples, prepare reports, present results, contribute to new research, work within team, etc.) - Requirements: minimum job requirements (Ph.D., experience, isotope ratio measurement experience, publishing record, ability to obtain Q clearance, Ph.D. within last five years). - Qualifications: desired qualifications (knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation, lab experience with batch sorption etc., ability to integrate modeling and experimental research). - Skills: maybe we could list specific skills like isotope ratio mass spectrometry, experimental design, data analysis, technical writing, presentation, teamwork. But we might not have explicit list; we could infer from responsibilities. However we should not invent details. Better to not create a Skills section if we don't have explicit skill list. The instruction: "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But headings are predefined; we can choose to include only those with real content. We could have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. Possibly also Work Location (could be under About the role or Benefits). Pay: not specified (no salary info). Schedule: not specified (no schedule). So we should not create Pay or Schedule sections because they'd be filler. Thus output sections: About the role (h3), Responsibilities (h3), Requirements (h3), Qualifications (h3), Benefits (h3). Possibly also Work Location (maybe under About the role). But we can include Work Location as a paragraph inside About the role or Benefits. However we have a specific bullet about work location: "Work Location: The work location for this position is onsite and located in Los Alamos, NM. All work locations are at the discretion of management." That's substantive; we could include it under About the role or as its own section? There's no heading for Work Location in the list; we could put it under About the role as a paragraph. Benefits: we have a list of benefits. We need to use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So for Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits we should use lists.
For About the role, we can use prose (
). We must not repeat job title as heading. No job ID. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include all details from the sections we keep. Let's extract details: About the role (What You Will Do): - The Analytical Earth Science Group (EES-15) at LANL seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport in support of subsurface nuclear proliferation monitoring. - Successful candidate will conduct laboratory and field-relevant measurements to determine how physical and geochemical transport processes influence generation, migration, detectability of isotopic signatures in subsurface. - Position includes laboratory experiments designed to connect isotope measurements with specific transport mechanisms. These may include batch reaction, diffusion cell, or column gas transport experiments under conditions representative of subsurface porous and fractured geologic media. - Candidate will develop and apply analytical workflows for sample preparation, experimental measurements, and data analysis using appropriate techniques. - Candidate will analyze experimental and environmental samples, including isotope ratio mass spectrometry measurements of transport signatures, and integrate measurements with complementary geochemical and physical observations. - Successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team of analytical chemists, geochemists, experimentalists, and computational earth scientists. - They will develop reproducible experimental and data-analysis workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results at conferences and program reviews; and contribute to new research directions. - Position expected to be jointly mentored by scientists in Nuclear and Radiochemistry Group (C-NR) and EES-15. - Position is for a two-year term, with possibility of extension for a third year based on performance and funding availability. That's all. Responsibilities: Could be same as above but maybe we separate duties. However we already used What You Will Do for About the role. For Responsibilities we could list specific duties: conduct lab and field-relevant measurements; develop analytical workflows; analyze samples; prepare reports and publications; present results; contribute to new research; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible workflows; etc. But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." If we split into About the role and Responsibilities, we might duplicate content. Better to have only one section for duties? But we have headings list; we can choose to include only those sections that have real specific content. We could combine About the role and Responsibilities into one section called "About the role" (or "Responsibilities") but we need to follow the heading list: we can use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can choose any of those headings. We could have sections: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (detailed list), Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits. That would avoid duplication if we split content appropriately. Let's split: About the role: brief overview: The Analytical Earth Science Group (EES-15) at LANL seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to investigate environmental isotopic signatures and radionuclide transport in support of subsurface nuclear proliferation monitoring. Responsibilities: list of duties: conduct laboratory and field-relevant measurements to determine how physical and geochemical transport processes influence generation, migration, detectability of isotopic signatures in subsurface; laboratory experiments (batch reaction, diffusion cell, column gas transport) under subsurface conditions; develop and apply analytical workflows for sample preparation, experimental measurements, data analysis; analyze experimental and environmental samples, including isotope ratio mass spectrometry measurements of transport signatures, integrate with complementary geochemical and physical observations; work within multidisciplinary team; develop reproducible experimental and data-analysis workflows; prepare technical reports and peer-reviewed publications; present results at conferences and program reviews; contribute to new research directions; position jointly mentored by scientists in C-NR and EES-15; position is two-year term with possible third-year extension. Requirements: Minimum Job Requirements: Ph.D. in geochemistry, hydrogeology, earth science, environmental science or engineering, nuclear engineering, chemical engineering, or closely related field. Experience experimentally investigating reactive transport, groundwater flow and solute transport, geochemical reactions, or related coupled subsurface processes. Experience with isotope ratio measurements using gas source magnetic sector mass spectrometers, quadrupole mass spectrometers, and/or cavity ring down spectroscopy as well as associated preparation of gaseous and aqueous samples. Record of publishing in peer-reviewed journals. Ability to obtain a Q clearance, which normally requires U.S. citizenship. Education/Experience: Candidates must have received a Ph.D. within the last five years in a STEM field, or will have completed all Ph.D. requirements by commencement of appointment. Qualifications: Desired Qualifications: Knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation monitoring, subsurface radionuclide transport, or environmental radiochemistry. Laboratory experience with batch sorption, diffusion cells, columns, core flooding systems, gas transport measurements, or other experiments relevant to subsurface transport. Demonstrated ability to integrate modeling and experimental research and to translate laboratory-scale observations into predictions relevant to field-scale systems. Benefits: Work Location: onsite Los Alamos, NM. All work locations at discretion of management. Benefits package includes: PPO or High Deductible medical insurance with same large nationwide network; Dental and vision insurance; Free basic life and disability insurance; Paid childbirth and parental leave; Award-winning 401(k) (6% matching plus 3.