NASA Postdoctoral Program - Heliophysics Science: Transients Structures in the Ambient Solar Wind

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 research opportunity focuses on the origin and evolution of small scale transients in the ambient solar wind. Remote and in situ sensing instrumentation regularly observe quiet-time plasma density structures in the inner corona, through the inner Heliosphere, all the way out to 1 AU. The research involves understanding how both turbulent and non-turbulent density structures are created and their role in the Sun-Earth connection. Ongoing investigations include the analysis of both remote sensing data and in situ data, as well as the relationship between them, with time series and spectral analysis playing the primary role.