NASA Postdoctoral Program - Optical Remote Sensing Observation of Aerosol and Clouds from Ground-based, Airborne, and Space-borne Passive and Active instruments

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 better understanding how atmospheric constituents such as aerosols, clouds, and trace gases affect the Earth's atmospheric composition, radiation balance, and climate change. Specific topics include studying the effects of aerosol and cloud variability on satellite-derived all-sky direct aerosol radiative effects, combining different space-based sensors to perform profiling of the Earth's planetary boundary layer, and characterizing gas, chemical and optical characteristics of different aerosol types to improve model predictions. The investigations can be based on recent, current or upcoming satellite measurements, airborne measurements from field campaigns or surface observations. Research involving machine learning techniques will be strongly encouraged. This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).