NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship - Multiphysical modeling of silicic volcanoes with InSAR geodesy

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 analyzing multiplatform InSAR data to measure ground deformation at large scale silicic volcanic systems, running multiphysics numerical simulations to discriminate among several unrest mechanisms, and inverting time series data to constrain properties of volcanic plumbing systems. The research will investigate whether uplift events at silicic volcanoes are produced by magma intrusion, volatile exsolution, variations in shallow hydrothermal systems, or a combination of these mechanisms. The project aims to determine how many magma injections and of what magnitude are required to trigger an eruption, with models benchmarked against well-studied systems like Long Valley and Yellowstone.