.Postdoctoral in Accounting of Social and Natural Capital The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) offers a full-time Postdoctoral Scientist position in order to support the research activities of Research Line (RL) 5 on Integrated Modelling of Coupled Human-Natural Systems, supported by the IKUR programme of the Basque Government on Supercomputing and Artificial Intelligence (HPC/AI).The RL generates multidisciplinary scientific knowledge from human-nature interdependence to address complex sustainability problems through artificial intelligence (AI). The goal of the RL is to provide data, models and understanding by retrieving, evaluating and integrating the existing information in order to support an effective policy-making where nature counts. During the past decade, the RL has envisioned and built the ARIES (ARtificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability (https://aries.Integratedmodelling.Org/ ) platform, a technology that integrates network-available data and model components through semantics and machine reasoning. Its underlying open-source software (k.LAB, https://docs.Integratedmodelling.Org/technote/ ) handles the full end-to-end process of integrating data with multiple model integration types.In 2021, the UN Statistical Commission adopted the System of Environmental Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) as an international statistical standard and encouraged countries to implement the SEEA EA. A global SEEA EA implementation strategy has been developed to rapidly expand the number of countries compiling natural capital accounts (NCA) based on the SEEA. The overall implementation strategy includes capacity building, development and guidelines, strengthening collaboration as well as development of supporting data and tools. The development of ARIES for SEEA, a collaboration between the United Nations Statistical Division (UNSD) and BC3, started in April 2020. Its development is undertaken by a Sector Hub, which reports to the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics, and which collaborates on the UN Global Platform, a cloud-service platform supporting international collaboration in the development of official statistics using new data sources and innovative methods. Since then, the ARIES team has been collaborating with important institutions to advance the work in NCA, including engaging with National Statistic Offices to help compile environmental accounts, and our team has been commissioned to diverse projects from worldwide institutions, such as the European Space Agency to integrate remote sensing data in the system, and the World Bank, to perform different environmental economic analyses.Key responsibilities:The postdoctoral researcher will participate in:Contribute to the ARIES platform, and its applications in accounting at different scales of application – e.G. businesses, regions ad nations – and in different domains of knowledge, e.G
