NASA Postdoctoral Program - Estimating and Studying the Global Ocean Ecology and Carbon Cycle Using Observations and Numerical Models

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 working with a state-of-the-art, data-assimilating ocean biogeochemistry model called ECCO-Darwin to explore physical and biogeochemical interactions in the land-sea continuum, ocean acidification, or other carbon cycle aspects such as air-sea CO2 exchange and oceanic sources/sinks. The ocean is estimated to have absorbed approximately 50% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions since the beginning of the industrial period, making quantification and mechanistic understanding of the oceanic carbon cycle a subject of active research. The postdoctoral scholar will work closely with the ECCO-Darwin team on model development and evaluation at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.