NASA Postdoctoral Program: Earth Science - Remote Sensing and Modeling of Terrestrial Seasonal Snow

The NASA Postdoctoral Program 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 the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center seeks a post-doctoral candidate to conduct research in the remote sensing of terrestrial seasonal snow. Research areas could include snowpack physics, interactions between snowpacks and soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere, as well as snow-related societal applications including water resources, natural hazards, water security, and weather and climate. The remote sensing component could include any combination of sensing techniques from passive and active microwave, to passive VIS/IR sensing, lidar, signals of opportunity, gravity and gamma radiation, using platforms from ground-based to satellite. The ideal candidate will have experience in the collection and use of remote sensing data, the design and improvement of algorithms and models, and the collection of field data and its use in validation studies. Opportunities for snow field work are highly likely as part of the SnowEx campaigns.