NASA Postdoctoral Program - Impacts of Climate Extreme Events on Health

The NASA Postdoctoral Program 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 at the NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) seeks a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the impacts of climate extreme events on human health using health data from hospitals across the United States and various NASA datasets including reanalysis products, satellite observations, and subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasts. The research will focus on identifying extreme weather events associated with health risks, examining compound effects of different extreme events, investigating spatial and seasonal variability in climate-health relationships, exploring large-scale climatic drivers of these events, and evaluating prediction skills. The opportunity is closed to Senior Fellows who are 5 years or more past their PhD.