Cross-scale thermal remote sensing of biospheric function

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific postdoctoral fellowship focuses on advances in thermal remote sensing that provide new insights into plant water use as well as impacts of heat and drought. The position utilizes tiered monitoring and measurement approaches using in-situ, drone, aircraft and space-based retrievals of surface emissivity, temperature, and evapotranspiration covering a range of processes linked to leaf, canopy and landscape scales. The fellowship is designed to work with NASA's current and upcoming thermal missions like ECOSTRESS, SBG, and Landsat-Next to develop a tiered approach while also conducting in-situ validation. The research aims to understand plant water use and temperature limits across scales and biomes, and to better integrate tiered measurement systems with new multi-spectral thermal imaging missions. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.