NASA Postdoctoral Program - Earth Science: Remote Sensing and Modeling of Soil Moisture

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 remote sensing of soil moisture at the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. The prospective candidate should work towards developing a comprehensive understanding of the water cycle by providing expertise in the retrieval of soil moisture fields from microwave observations. Activities include contributing to the development and testing of soil moisture retrieval algorithms, participating in hydrological field campaigns, studying soil moisture variability, and researching methods for incorporating remotely sensed data into numerical prediction models. The ideal candidate will have experience with algorithms for estimating soil moisture from low frequency microwave observations, particularly from satellite systems such as SMOS, Aquarius, GPM, and SMAP.