Groundbreaking Lightning and Atmospheric Electricity Research

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 at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) focuses on atmospheric electricity research, with opportunities including analysis of thunderstorms and lightning associated with gamma-ray phenomena, development of next-generation lightning detection techniques, study of transient luminous events (TLEs), microwave remote sensing for severe thunderstorm evolution, cloud-resolving numerical modeling of thunderstorm electrification, and research on nitrogen oxide production by lightning. MSFC is a world leader in atmospheric electricity research with a multi-decade history of developing ground-based, airborne, and spaceborne atmospheric electricity instruments.