NASA Postdoctoral Program - Imaging Spectroscopy Data Analysis for the EMIT Mission

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 NASA's EMIT mission, which will use imaging spectroscopy to measure the composition of Earth's mineral dust source regions. The fellowship seeks a researcher to collaborate with the science team to develop and refine science data analyses, including probabilistic and Bayesian retrieval methods for modeling surface, atmosphere, and instrument, and high-fidelity instrument radiometric and spectral calibration. The position is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and requires strong mathematics and computer science expertise with an interest in Earth surface science, remote sensing, physics, and imaging spectroscopy.