Postdoctoral Scholar in AI for Earth and Environmental Sciences
Syracuse University | Posted Jun 9, 2026
Deadline: Jun 19, 2026
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The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the Hydrogeochemistry and Environmental Data Sciences (HANDS) research group. The position is broadly focused on artificial intelligence, machine learning, environmental data science, foundation AI models, and data-intensive Earth and environmental research.
The successful candidate will contribute to two complementary research directions. One direction uses AI/ML, data science, and geologic/environmental datasets to assess energy and environmental systems, including oil and gas well condition, characterization, and integrity-related questions. The second direction focuses on characterizing global water and elemental cycles, with emphasis on terrestrial and catchment systems. Together, these projects will use large geochemical, hydrologic, geospatial, regulatory, and environmental datasets to advance predictive, interpretable, and transferable approaches for Earth and environmental sciences.
A key intellectual theme of the position is the development and application of AI/ML and foundation-model approaches for complex Earth and environmental systems, including subsurface energy infrastructure, riverine hydrogeochemistry, watershed elemental cycles, water quality, terrestrial water and solute fluxes, and prediction across watershed and river-network scales.