Senior Scientist I

Come join the Climate Statistics Team within the Research and Modeling Department at Extreme Event Solutions at Verisk’s Boston office, and contribute to building catastrophe models and products suited to address risk estimation in a changing climate.  Our team’s projects offer opportunities for creative problem-solving, analysis, and communication at the interface of extreme weather, climate change, and risk. Catastrophe models depend fundamentally on quantitative description and simulation of the background climate states driving hazardous atmospheric activity. To produce unbiased estimates of today’s risk, our modeling teams must carefully consider the changes taking place over the length of the historical data, heavily supplemented by mechanistic physical reasoning where the statistics are uncertain, to represent the current climatology of natural hazards. For estimates of future risk, understanding and manipulation of climate model output must be married to our baseline model for climate risk in the present.This is a fantastic position for a climate scientist or climate-oriented statistician with critical thinking and analytic skills pertaining to the modeling and analysis of climate impacts on atmospheric extremes. We hope to find candidates with either a solid command of the physical climate science or else the application of statistics to problems in atmospheric and climate sciences. Either way, we are looking for candidates with a collaborative mindset and fearlessness for wading across disciplinary boundaries. The work in the position will contribute toward improvements in model-building to enable the (re)insurance sector to make better-informed decisions to bolster social resilience to a changing climate.Day to Day Responsibilities May Include:Contribute to data analysis, physical interpretation, documentation, and statistical modeling of climatic signals, trends and nonstationarities in atmospheric perils represented by Verisk’s models. Signals of interest include those due to large-scale climatic modes, as well as those resulting from anthropogenically-forced activitiesPerform literature review and synthesis related to climatology and impacts of changing background environments on various perilsHelp interpret unfolding catastrophic events in the context of climatic variability and changeContribute reproducible analysis and analytic tools to our team Climate Statistics code basesHelp formulate answers to client questions related to climatic aspects of Verisk Extreme Event Solution’s atmospheric peril modelsOver time, come to act as a soundboard for teams building out models aiming for consistency with current climate state, as well as climate-change projected extensions of our model products#LI-SM1