Global Carbon Cycle studies using observations, reanalysis and climate model simulations

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 focuses on NASA's global carbon cycle research to study the integrated carbon cycle in the atmosphere, oceans, land, in observational datasets and in models and describe the implications for Earth's climate, productivity, and natural resources. The research goal is to understand and quantify the carbon cycle feedbacks and the uncertainty in the NASA GISS Earth System model and provide information about future changes particularly with respect to the evolution of the marine and terrestrial sinks. Research proposals are encouraged in areas including land-ocean interface, land vegetation phenology and climate teleconnections, quantification of source-sink circulation patterns, ocean and land carbon uptake, and utilization of satellite data to evaluate simulated carbon stocks and fluxes. This opportunity is located at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, New York.