Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Ocean CDR Atlas

About the role

[C]Worthy is a non-profit research organization focused on transforming research-grade oceanographic models into open, reproducible, and auditable decision-support tools for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR). Its mission is to deliver trustworthy, science-backed tools for Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) that enable governments, communities, and markets to make high-stakes ocean decisions grounded in transparent, scientifically credible evidence. The organization is building three interlocking open-science capabilities: C-Star, an open-source modeling platform that systematizes regional ocean model configuration, execution, and evaluation through versioned inputs, automated workflows, and comprehensive provenance tracking; the C-Star Ocean Network (C-SON), a growing constellation of standardized regional modeling domains designed to support consistent CDR accounting across sites and regions; and the Ocean CDR Atlas, an open dataset library and web tools that map CDR performance, connectivity, and risk drivers across ocean regions, providing the basis for low-cost MRV evaluation and standard-setting worldwide. These capabilities form the foundation for scalable ocean science, making knowledge transferable and auditable, lowering the marginal cost of additional applications, and enabling research innovation to flow across a network of projects and regions. [C]Worthy aims to democratize access to sophisticated ocean information tools, empowering diverse scientific communities to participate in ocean governance and marine resource management on their own terms. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, [C]Worthy seeks a Postdoctoral Research Scientist to develop a high-resolution Ocean CDR Atlas dataset for the West Coast of North America. This dataset will provide a library of uptake efficiency kernels enabling MRV quantification for OAE deployments across the eastern Pacific without requiring new model runs for each scenario, dramatically lowering the modeling burden for individual project MRV and offering a broadly accessible reference for market standards, accounting frameworks, permitting and regulatory decision making, public communication, and research applications. The Atlas simulations will be performed with the ROMS-MARBL regional ocean model within C-Star. The postdoc will configure and validate a mesoscale-resolving domain spanning the Eastern Pacific, co-design a nested submesoscale-resolving subdomain with external collaborators, run targeted sensitivity experiments, and aid in releasing the Atlas as a public, fully documented dataset with reproducible C-Star workflows.