NASA Postdoctoral Program - Sea Level Changes from Ice Mass and Glacial Isostatic Adjustment: Coastal Subsidence and Global Water Mass Balance in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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 focuses on using Glacial Isostatic adjustment (GIA) models constrained by global seismology, laboratory rock creep experiments, paleo-sea-level records and modern tide gauge records, and 3-D GPS crustal motion data to improve understanding of sea-level variability and gravity trends measured from space using GRACE-Follow on and JASON-3 data sets. The research will develop a strong interface to computationally state-of-the-art ice sheet simulations with Ice Sheet System Model framework and provide the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) science analyses with improved GIA predictions, based on both spherically symmetric and fully 3-D earth models. The position is located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.