Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Soil Health Benchmarking, CSIRO

CSIRO

Location:
Australia, Canberra

Category:
Research and Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

99990.00 - 109527.00 AU / Year

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Job Description:

CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years of relevant postdoctoral work experience. These fellowships aim to develop the next generation of future leaders of the innovation system. In partnership with a diverse research team, this successful candidate will develop an industry-funded soil health framework for Australian agricultural production systems. The CERC Fellow will be a broad soil systems thinker and have a strong interest in using spatial approaches to solve challenges in measuring, valuing and reporting the status of Australia’s soil resources. Pedometric tools will be used to define Australian-specific soil health indicators, and to develop regionally and soil-specific quantitative soil health scoring and benchmarking methods.

Job Responsibility:

Carry out research investigations requiring originality, creativity and innovation
Work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary, often regionally dispersed research team, to undertake independent scientific investigations and carry out associated tasks under broad guidance from other Research Scientists
Conceptualise, design and test a novel framework for soil health assessments of Australian agricultural soil resources, taking into account current international and domestic literature, frameworks and expert opinion
Integrate several tiers of spatially explicit, and where applicable, temporal soil data including conventionally measured, proximally and remotely sensed into tools and metrics to support soil health benchmarking and thresholding
Carry out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO that will, where possible, lead to novel and important scientific outcomes
Recognise and exploit opportunities for innovation and the generation of new theoretical perspectives, and progress opportunities for the further development or creation of new lines of research
Record, manage, and analyse data/information using relevant domain data science techniques

Requirements:

A doctorate (or will shortly satisfy the requirements of a PhD) in a relevant discipline area of soil science, such as soil condition and function assessment, pedometrics, digital soil mapping, soil spatial and temporal analysis
No more than 3 years (full-time equivalent) of relevant research experience
A sound understanding of Australian and/or international soil systems, farming systems, soil spatial variability and agro-ecosystem function
Demonstrated knowledge and skills in designing and implementing field-based research aimed at quantifying or modelling the state and function of soils across spatially variable landscapes
Applied experience in using statistical and mathematical tools to analyse and interpret soil data, spatial modelling, multivariate statistics and/or machine learning, and relevant coding languages (e.g. R, Python), including a sound understanding of FAIR data principles, data management and version control
A current Australian driver’s licence or the ability to obtain one

What we offer:

15.4% superannuation
Flexible work arrangements
Range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
August 15, 2025

Expiration:
September 15, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Soil Health Benchmarking

CSIRO

Location:Australia, Canberra

Category:Research and Development

Contract Type:Employment contract