NASA Postdoctoral Program - Planetary Science: Coastal Processes

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 advancing knowledge of planetary surface processes through analysis of beach morphodynamic responses to high energy events such as storms. The research supports coastal preservation and climate change studies, seeking to analyze existing datasets including seismic, infrasound, imagery (aerial/satellite), digital elevation models, and GPS. Current locations of interest are past field sites including the coast around Cape Canaveral and northern Puerto Rico. The project seeks to discern energy dissipation of ocean waves as they approach shorelines and the mechanical response of coastal features from the energy that remains. Developed methods should tie present day coastal Earth processes to paleo or present-day terrestrial planetary processes. 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.