NASA Postdoctoral Program - Earth Science: Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate: Flows between Lakes, Rivers, Soils, Vegetation, and Atmosphere

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 invites postdoctoral fellows to propose research investigating the role of land surface hydrology and its coupling with different aspects of the climate system. The distribution of water on land in lakes, rivers, soils, aquifers, and vegetation varies seasonally and has changed through Earth's history and is undergoing shifts with climate change and human land use. Research may involve wetlands coupling of vegetation, soils, and peatlands; dynamics of lakes and rivers; flooding with climate change scenarios; and model evaluation with remote sensing observations from missions such as SWOT, SMAP, GRACE, or others. Fellows will work with NASA's ModelE Earth System Model at NASA GISS. This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).