NASA Postdoctoral Program - Improving understanding of smoke and ice cloud properties resulting from pyroconvective activity by combining information from polarimetric, lidar, and TIR inst

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects. This specific opportunity focuses on the INSPYRE Earth Venture Suborbital mission, which aims to constrain the role of pyrocumulonimbus in the warming climate system and characterize their physical links to extreme wildfire behavior. The project will create retrieval and modeling frameworks that combine data from multiple airborne and satellite sensors to better understand changes in aerosol and ice cloud formation and properties during pyroconvective activity. The research will utilize datasets from multiple field campaigns including PODEX, SEAC4RS, IMPACT-PM, and FIREX-AQ. The fellowship is designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology through competitive one- to three-year postdoctoral positions at NASA Centers or affiliated research institutes.