NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow in Large scale hydrology

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 fellowship focuses on the storage and movement of water around the planet, using satellite observations and numerical simulations to better understand and characterize variability of water at the land surface in soils, snow and groundwater. The research aims to help in predictions of future water availability, global water cycle dynamics and sea level change, and to better understand hydrologic extremes like flood and drought. A postdoctoral fellow will participate in observation and/or modeling of the terrestrial water cycle, working to identify phenomena and processes in satellite observations that can inform and improve understanding and ability to simulate the terrestrial water cycle and its relationship with global climate. Observational work includes data from GRACE, SMAP, GPM or in-situ stations, while model work includes CLM, VIC, CLSM, and LIS frameworks including GLDAS and NLDAS.