Earth Science: Impacts

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity is focused on Earth Science impacts research at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) Impacts Group. The group applies Earth information including in situ and remotely-sensed observations as well as climate and weather model output to enhance decision support across impact sectors including agriculture/food security, urban impacts, and ecosystem/wildlife services. Research includes assessment of current vulnerabilities to extreme weather events and emerging climate change challenges, methods for generating useful information for decision-makers from weather and climate models, integration of remotely-sensed information for monitoring and forecasting extreme event impacts, and use of high-performance computational resources, machine learning and statistical methods for impacts research. Work opportunities also exist at the nexus of water and agriculture and in risk management for suburban landscapes. This opportunity is closed to Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).