NASA Postdoctoral Program - Mars Atmospheric Data Analysis and Modelling

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 understanding the Martian atmosphere, its variability, and its interaction with the surface through observing and modeling its primary traceable constituents including water vapor, water-ice and dust. The postdoctoral fellow will analyze and synthesize data from Mars orbiters and landers and conduct relevant modeling studies. The program aims to gain insight into atmospheric character and changes on various timescales, the current climate regime and its evolution, and the nature of the water cycle and its relationship to long term sources and sinks. The fellow would likely conduct a combination of modeling studies and data analyses, possibly including modeling climate evolution, with all modeling constrained by and validated against existing data.