NASA Postdoctoral Program - Heliophysics Science: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling

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 coupling processes between the magnetosphere and ionosphere, investigating auroral images from POLAR and Dynamics Explorer spacecraft, and particles and fields data. Research areas of particular interest include: (1) the electrodynamic relationships between particle precipitation, electric-field convection cells, field-aligned currents, and the global aurora; (2) the source and effects of inverted-V electron precipitation; (3) the association of charged particles and field-aligned currents with aeronomic and ionospheric phenomena; and (4) the relationship between outer magnetosphere phenomena and their signatures at ionospheric altitudes. The fellowship is located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.