NASA Postdoctoral Program - Microwave Remote Sensing and Precipitation Science

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 Marshall Space Flight Center focuses on satellite observations of water sources and sinks through the Earth system, including precipitation measurement from space through missions like GPM, TRMM, INCUS, and AOS. Research areas include adaptive weather radar techniques for deep convective precipitation, retrieval capabilities aligned with AOS objectives, satellite/ground/airborne measurements for physical process studies of precipitation and the global water cycle, microwave ocean surface wind retrievals, validation of satellite-based precipitation algorithms using physical and machine learning approaches, tropical cyclone investigations, hydrologic modeling applications, improvement of NASA satellite sounding retrieval algorithms, and use of SmallSat/CubeSat microwave remote sensing platforms.