About Cascade

Join Cascade Climate, a global nonprofit propelling high-potential climate solutions from the margins to the mainstream.

The climate crisis has outpaced our response. We need dramatically expanded efforts on large-scale durable carbon removal for climate restoration, near-term warming mitigation, and potential interventions to avoid triggering irreversible tipping points. Many promising solutions remain sidelined not because they lack potential, but because they haven't gotten the push needed to overcome adoption bottlenecks.

We founded Cascade to provide that push. We do this by leading ambitious initiatives spanning markets, policy and science to overcome the biggest bottlenecks to progress. Cascade is philanthropically backed and since its launch in 2023 has built a strong funding base with support from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Grantham Foundation, Quadrature Climate Foundation, and others.

Cascade’s initial focus has been advancing the development of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) as a promising climate-smart agriculture and carbon removal solution, underpinned by its scientific evidence base and its potential for gigaton-scale, durable carbon dioxide removal.

About the Role

We’re looking for an earth scientist with a strong background in data science to lead an intensive, 9-month push in analyzing ERW field data. The candidate will work with our team of environmental geochemists to develop an analytical framework for assimilating and analyzing field data, culminating in the issuance of external reports to key stakeholders. Work products may also include published meta-analyses, depending on the aptitudes and career aspirations of the fellow. While the core of the position will be data science, the candidate will be expected to frequently engage with external stakeholders to obtain context for the data and to develop key data analysis objectives.

The position is structured as a nine-month, extendable, full time fellowship. For exceptionally well-qualified candidates, we will also consider a part-time consulting arrangement, if that is the candidate’s preference.