Climate TRACE works by aggregating dozens of individual global sector-specific emissions inventories, each developed separately by a collaborating organization. The new data fusion team will focus on optimally integrating these models with each other, along with many external datasets and estimates extrapolated from first principles, to develop the best possible consensus global emissions estimates. The work will be highly iterative, applying a Bayesian updating framework to integrate a rapidly growing list of constituent datasets.
The role of the Research Scientist will include validating and synthesizing different estimates of the same values; determining or estimating data uncertainty, including correctly applying error propagation; extrapolating from current estimates to reason about data-sparse areas; and potentially spearheading outreach to the broader emissions scientific community. Particularly senior candidates for this role will be considered for Senior Research Scientist, which would include managing this new team.
Key Responsibilities
Data assimilation
Evaluate, quality control, and assist with formatting and integration of new datasets on emissions and other variables, to produce a first pass integrated view of what we know
Quality assurance
Develop, and support your Data Scientist colleague(s) in automating, rigorous validation and quality control processes flagging logical inconsistencies in these input datasets
Work with contributing teams to iterate on any inputs thus flagged
Data extrapolation and data fusion
Help develop and implement strategies for extrapolating from the existing partially complete Climate TRACE inventory to fill gaps and create a comprehensive estimated emissions dataset
Using Bayesian updating or similar techniques, iteratively improve these estimates by integrating more and more datasets to produce a successively more accurate view
Science support to Climate TRACE members
Support member organizations with weaker scientific backgrounds (but stronger software and AI backgrounds) in reasoning about error propagation, etc.
Scientific outreach
Coauthor papers explaining Climate TRACE methodologies
Potentially represent Climate TRACE to collaborating senior scientists at the highest levels of groups like NASA, the World Meteorological Organization, etc.
(If hired as a Senior Research Scientist)
Lead a small team of WattTime scientists and coordinate a number of other Climate TRACE contributors in achieving the above
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