COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Singapore Management University is a place where high-level professionalism blends together with a healthy informality. The 'family-like' atmosphere among the SMU community fosters a culture where employees work, plan, organise and play together building a strong collegiality and morale within the university.
Our commitment to attract and retain talent is ongoing. We offer attractive benefits and welfare, competitive compensation packages, and generous professional development opportunities all to meet the work-life needs of our staff. No wonder, then, that SMU continues to be given numerous awards and recognition for its human resource excellence.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- To extend and expand the long time-series records of meteorological data and extreme climate-induced events in our study area (by running a Zooniverse project to digitise historical instrumental weather data contained in ships logbooks, newspapers, and mission station records, using crowd-sourcing methods);
- To compile a database of narrative evidence describing weather conditions and weather events, their impacts and associated societal responses (through archival analysis of international collections of missionary documents and newspapers from historical archives), and to assist in converting qualitative descriptions of rainfall conditions into continuous quantitative ordinal-scale climate indices (using standard historical climatology methods);
- To use the narrative evidence compiled in point 2, to explore the impacts of rainfall extremes upon societies in Singapore, Malaysia and Sumatra during the study period through modelling and/or historical analysis.
- PhD in Historical Climatology, Climate History, or a related field.
- Database management, data collection from historical archives; critical textual analysis; analysis of historical meteorological data.
