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UC Davis establishes center for coffee science study center; possible major to follow
2014-03-07 20:05:41| Beverages - Topix.net
UC Davis has made a name for itself researching beverages people use to relax – like wine and beer.
Support to BepiColombo Science Operations
2014-03-07 14:37:51| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
WHO ARE WE? GMV www.gmv.com is a privately owned technological enterprise group with an international presence employing more than 1.100 staff. Founded in 1984, GMV mainly operates in eight large sectors for both public and private organizations Aeronautics, Space, Defense, Health, Security, Transportation, Telecommunications and Information Technologies. GMV currently runs eight work centers in Spain Tres Cantos Madrid headquarters, Boecillo Valladolid, Seville, Barcelona, Valencia, Tenerife, Len, Zaragoza and also work centers in Lisbon Portugal, Rockville Maryland, USA, Darmstadt Germany, Warsaw Poland, Bucharest Romania, Malaysia, Toulouse France and New Delhi India. We recruit and hire excellent engineers, and encourage innovation, technical excellence and continuing education. Our engineers regularly present papers at technical conferences, continue their education more than 85 have a masters degree, and we reinvest more than 12 of budget in IRD projects. This striving for excellence, innovation and flexibility is a major part of our culture. We provide very competitive compensation, attractive benefits, and a great work environment with lots of opportunities for professional growth. JOB DESCRIPTION Responsibilities Duties Tasks The service to be will encompass contributing to the requirements definition, design, implementation and testing of the BepiColombo Science Control System BSCS with specific focus on the Data Processing side of the BSCS. As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out develop and maintain the BepiColombo Data Processing System DPS. The DPS activities will comprise the implementation of the pipelines under SGS development responsibility, and the integration within the BSCS of the pipelines developed and delivered to SGS by the different instrument teams. The DPS activities will also include the development and implementation of the data processing monitoring and control facilities and the different data transfer mechanisms. participate in the development and maintenance of the other subsystems of the BSCS. These subsystems cover the acquisition of data from ESOC OGS, the science planning and the quality control, and the interfaces for data ingestion and retrieval tofrom the BepiColombo Archive Core System BACS. contribute to the installation and setup of the Configuration Control tools used by the BSCS, and in the definition and implementation of the BSCS software development environment. Qualifications University degree in computer science, or software engineering, or scientific discipline, or equivalent, Required knowledge The service to be provided requires that the personnel should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in general software development and software engineering with good understanding of space operations. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in o Programming languages Java, IDL and C. o Scripting in Unix environments. o Graphical User Interface GUI development and maintenance. o Development of data structures, accessing them locally and from relational databases. o Administration of relational Databases, MySQL and ORACLE. o Provision and maintenance of tests harnesses. o Development of Web Applications, experience with Apache Tomcat technologies. o Knowledge of XML and experience in mapping XML files to Java Objects and viceversa is an advantage. o Knowledge of inter process communication is an advantage. o Knowledge of scientific processing and data analysis is an advantage. o Science mission planning and instrument commanding is an advantage o Experience with configuration and version control tools, SVN, GIT. o Experience with software building tools MAVEN, Hudson, Jenkins. o ECSS standards for software development. o ECSS Packet Utilization Standard PUS services o SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structures. Other Information The service personnel should possess good communications skills. Be able to document their work. Willing to travel regularly to ESA establishments andor Instrument teams institutes. Comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English a high level of written and spoken English is essential. WHAT DO WE OFFER? As soon as they join the organization our professionals are given the chance to tackle technological challenges in an innovative environment, to work in multidisciplinary teams and deal directly with clients. This helps them to mature quickly as professionals. We provide continual topup training to keep our career professionals perfectly abreast of all technologies used. We offer a permanent contract and attractive package including a highly competitive salary plus a comprehensive benefits package. If you would like to work in an interesting, fun, fastpaced, challenging, diverse and global company which is growing rapidly, please send us your resume to jobsgmv.com For more information about GMV, please visit our website at www.gmv.com
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Least Developed Countries say science must drive UN climate talks
2014-03-07 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: The Least Developed Countries (LDC) group at the UN climate negotiations represents 49 states especially vulnerable to climate change. Members include Pacific Islands like Tuvalu and Kiribati, smaller Asian states like Nepal and Myanmar, and African countries like Somalia, Eritrea and Gambia. The group is economically weak, but acts as a collective conscience within the UN talks, offering a constant reminder why it is so important to control greenhouse gas emissions. Below Prakash Mathema,...
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Support to BepiColombo Science Operations
2014-03-06 12:35:26| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
There is now a great opportunity to join The Server Labs team and work in ESAC The European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, Spain. The Server Labs is a European IT services company, specialised on software engineering and handson consulting. We offer an excellent package, including highest salary, social benefits, company benefits, extra holidays and health and dental insurance. Important Candidates must hold a European Passport and be willing to work in Spain Job Description Support to BepiColombo Science Operations This work package is intended to provide a number of specialised services to support ESA in developing science operations systems and tools, including System engineering and architectural design activities, including operating plans and procedures, Designing, developing, implementing, testing, deploying, operating and maintaining software tools and systems, e.g. o Observation proposal handling, mission planning and quicklook systems, parts of which may be distributed to the community o User support tools o Interactive analysis and calibration systems, to be distributed as needed to the community for data reduction and analysis o Data processing pipelines o Scientific data archives and interfacing these to the virtual observatory. o Scientific and technical WWW systems to support Science Operations Centre, Science Ground Segment and the scientific community Contribute to the definition of Interface Control Documents ICDs and file interchange formats with external coordination units Organise and perform end to end system testing with the scientific communities Contribute to the maintenance of the overall system, including configuration control and versioning The BepiColombo Science Ground Segment BepiColombo is a joint ESAJAXA mission to Mercury. The mission comprises two spacecraft, ESAs Mercury Planetary Orbiter MPO and JAXAs Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter MMO. The two spacecraft will be launched in the third quarter of 2015 with arrival at Mercury in early 2022. The activities of the MPO Science Ground Segment SGS include Science Operations Planning of the MPO payload, science data processing and data distribution to the instrument teams, quick look data analysis of science data and archiving of data in the BepiColombo science archive. The MPO SGS has interfaces with the Operational Ground Segment OGS at ESOC, the MMO JAXA Sagamihara Space Operations Centre SSOC, the MPO Instrument Teams and the cientific Community. The SGS is based at the European Space Astronomy Centre ESAC in Villanueva de la Caada, Madrid, Spain Specific Service tasks Main Service Tasks Responsibilities The main area of activity will be SW development for the implementation of the Data Processing Subsystem DPS within the BepiColombo Science Control System at the Science Ground Segment. The activity will also imply integration, operation and maintenance of the Data Processing infrastructure, components and tools. Service Work Package Descriptions and Scope The service to be will encompass contributing to the requirements definition, design, implementation and testing of the BepiColombo Science Control System BSCS with specific focus on the Data Processing side of the BSCS. As part of the service the following main activities will have to be carried out Develop and maintain the BepiColombo Data Processing System DPS. The DPS activities will comprise the implementation of the pipelines under SGS development responsibility, and the integration within the BSCS of the pipelines developed and delivered to SGS by the different instrument teams. The DPS activities will also include the development and implementation of the data processing monitoring and control facilities and the different data transfer mechanisms. Participate in the development and maintenance of the other subsystems of the BSCS. These subsystems cover the acquisition of data from ESOC OGS, the science planning and the quality control, and the interfaces for data ingestion and retrieval tofrom the BepiColombo Archive Core System BACS. Contribute to the installation and setup of the Configuration Control tools used by the BSCS, and in the definition and implementation of the BSCS software development environment. Specific Qualification Requirements The service to be provided requires that the personnel should possess a university background in a scientific or technical subject and relevant professional experience of at least 5 years in general software development and software engineering with good understanding of space operations. In particular, possess the following experience, knowledge and proficiency in o Programming languages Java, IDL and C. o Scripting in Unix environments. o Graphical User Interface GUI development and maintenance. o Development of data structures, accessing them locally and from relational databases. o Administration of relational Databases, MySQL and ORACLE. o Provision and maintenance of tests harnesses. o Development of Web Applications, experience with Apache Tomcat technologies. o Knowledge of XML and experience in mapping XML files to Java Objects and viceversa is an advantage. o Knowledge of inter process communication is an advantage. o Knowledge of scientific processing and data analysis is an advantage. o Science mission planning and instrument commanding is an advantage o Experience with configuration and version control tools, SVN, GIT. o Experience with software building tools MAVEN, Hudson, Jenkins. o ECSS standards for software development. o ECSS Packet Utilization Standard PUS services o SCOS2000 Mission Information Base MIB structures. Other Information The service personnel should possess good communications skills. Be able to document their work. Willing to travel regularly to ESA establishments andor Instrument teams institutes. Comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English a high level of written and spoken English is essential. Company Description The Server Labs is a European IT services company, specialised on software engineering and handson consulting. Our architects and software engineers are experts on the latest technologies and agile methodologies, to provide our clients the best software solutions, practices and software architectures. We collaborate with our clients to obtain success, committed to innovation, enjoying what we do every day and growing with every challenge. The Server Labs works with different industries and business verticals. Within the Space industry, The Server Labs works with the European Space Agency ESA, at ESAC, near Madrid, and at ESOC, in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. We provide specialists to ESA, but also our company expertise and services in technologies and methodologies to offer additional value to the projects and initiatives led by ESA. By working with The Server Labs, you will be part of a multinational team in a fast growing technology company based in Madrid, Frankfurt and London. Please send your CV with cover letter to resumetheserverlabs.com before the 17th of March 2014 Additional information Position ID TSLSRE062 Deadline 17th of March 2014 Location Madrid, Spain Support Start Date 1 April 2014 Support End Date 31 March 2015
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Support to Science Operations Science Archives and VO Java Developer
2014-03-06 12:35:21| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
There is now a great opportunity to join The Server Labs team and work in ESAC The European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid, Spain. The Server Labs is a European IT services company, specialised on software engineering and handson consulting. We offer an excellent package, including highest salary, social benefits, company benefits, extra holidays and health and dental insurance. Important Candidates must hold a European Passport and be willing to work in Spain Job Description Support to Science Operations Science Archives and VO Java Developer Within the Science Operations Departments overall responsibility for scientific operations development and execution for astronomy and solar system missions, the Science Archives and Computer Engineering Unit carries in particular the role of developing science archives, providing easy access to mission data for the scientific community worldwide. The Science Archives Team in ESAC works on various archive projects from old missions ISO, Exosat, Giotto, Smart1, Huygens, current missions XMMNewton, Integral, Herschel, Planck, HST, Mars Express, Venus Express, Rosetta, Soho, Cluster, Ulysses and future missions Gaia, BepiColombo, Euclid, Solar Orbiter. All mission science archives are available online through GUI rich client or thin client web interfaces and machine scriptable interface, with data distribution done via FTP. Modular and flexible multitier and clientserver architecture together with the use of an objectoriented approach, Java and XML allows configurability and reuse of systems across archive projects. Furthermore, ESA, through the ESAC Science Archives Team is playing an important role in the Virtual Observatory VO worldwide to position itself as the main VO actor for all European spacebased astronomical data. A VO is a network of interoperating data archives and software tools that use the connectivity provided by the Internet to form a scientific research environment in which astronomical research programs can be conducted. The vast astronomical archives and databases around the world, together with analysis tools and computational services, are linked together into an integrated facility, not only connecting astronomical data centres and providers but also providing collective capabilities beyond those possible in any individual archive. Within the Science Archives Team, the service to be provided requires that personnel are usually dedicated to a specific archive project, taking care of design, implementation, operations and evolutive maintenance of the archive software systems data repository and database products metadata, middletier applications, data distribution and interoperability, user and scriptable interfaces. As the archives software systems share a common technical framework, service personnel assigned to one archive project can move to another archive project, ensuring easier and efficient knowledge transfer. Service specific tasks related to Science Archives and VO databases are the following Database design and modelling taking into account the user requirements Database installation, population, monitoring and maintenance Design, develop, deploy and maintain database interfaces for the rest of the archives and VO systems Design, develop, deploy and maintain applications related to the database information user administration tools, statistics tools, etc Configuration control and documentation tasks relevant to the above mentioned tasks. Service specific tasks related to Science Archives and VO user interfaces and middletier applications are the following Design, develop, deploy and maintain the Science Archive and VO graphical user interfaces which allow the users to make queries to the database, see the results, select products and request them Design, develop, deploy and maintain the Science Archive and VO middletier applications which provide transparent access for applications User Interface, Statistics Tool, Archive InterOperability systems, and others to the database and to the data products repository Design, develop, deploy and maintain some Science Archive Data Products Visualization tools, which allow to display images and spectra and to perform some simple manipulations zooming, selection, some extraction. Configuration control and documentation tasks relevant to the above mentioned tasks. Service specific tasks related to Science Archives and VO data distribution and interoperability applications are the following Design, develop, deploy and maintain Science Archive Data Distribution systems, which allow the users to retrieve archive data products via FTP or via an offline physical media Design, develop, deploy and maintain the Science Archive interoperability services, which provide a scriptable interface to the science archive databases and data products. Design, develop, deploy and maintain the VO compliant interoperability systems, making sure all RSSD Science Archives at ESAC are VO accessible Design, develop, deploy and maintain an ESA VO Portal, including a ESA multimissions archive based on VO protocols Design, develop, deploy and maintain VO applications and VO clients Registry, VOSpec, Participating to the VO interoperability working groups where VO standards are discussed and defined. Configuration control and documentation tasks relevant to the above mentioned tasks. Specific tasks requirements for this position To fulfil the service activity specific knowledge is required in the following areas ESA Ground Segment and Scientific Archives Software engineering Experience in designing multitier architecture application in the context of Scientific Archives and Virtual Observatory Extensive experience in JAVA programming language Experience in Web technologies http, JSP, web services, Experience in SQL and XML Experience in Graphical User Interfaces application Experience in Data Distribution applications through web services Experience in the Virtual Observatory standards and protocols, working groups, working processes and environment would be an asset UNIX SUN Solaris or Linux, and PCWindows environment Experience on ESA software engineering processes and software configuration control tools and some scientific background would be an asset. Specific Qualification Requirements University degree in computer science, or software engineering, or scientific discipline, or equivalent. Other Information About the role The service to be provided means that a demonstrated experience in interacting with the science community would be an advantage. The selected service personnel must be willing operate in a team environment and to travel. Display good interpersonal and communication skills. The service personnel should be comfortable in an international working environment and be fluent in English, one of the official languages of ESA. Company Description The Server Labs is a European IT services company, specialised on software engineering and handson consulting. Our architects and software engineers are experts on the latest technologies and agile methodologies, to provide our clients the best software solutions, practices and software architectures. We collaborate with our clients to obtain success, committed to innovation, enjoying what we do every day and growing with every challenge. The Server Labs works with different industries and business verticals. Within the Space industry, The Server Labs works with the European Space Agency ESA, at ESAC, near Madrid, and at ESOC, in Darmstadt, near Frankfurt. We provide specialists to ESA, but also our company expertise and services in technologies and methodologies to offer additional value to the projects and initiatives led by ESA. By working with The Server Labs, you will be part of a multinational team in a fast growing technology company based in Madrid, Frankfurt and London. Please send your CV with cover letter to resumetheserverlabs.com before the 17th of March 2014 Additional information Position ID TSLSRE065 Deadline 17th of March 2014 Location Madrid, Spain Support Start Date 1 May 2014 or earlier Support End Date 31 December 2016
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