NASA Postdoctoral Program - Earth Science: Vegetation and Soil Sciences

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 Earth Science research in vegetation and soil sciences at the Goddard Space Flight Center's Biospheric Sciences Laboratory. The Laboratory uses space-based remote-sensing instruments to characterize physical and biological properties of the Earth's surface and their time-dependent behavior. Priority research areas include global-scale ecological processes related to climate change and anthropogenic activity, terrestrial carbon cycle, fires and large-scale disturbance processes, regional-scale forest ecosystem dynamics, and 3-D modeling of light scattering and absorption within vegetation profiles. The fellowship requires a doctoral degree and is closed to Senior Fellows (those 5 years or more past PhD).