NASA Postdoctoral Program - Space Science: Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Planetary Atmospheres

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 theoretical and experimental research on the physics of atmospheric processes to resolve important problems in the structure and evolution of planetary atmospheres. Studies focus on general circulation of Martian and Venusian atmospheres, climate changes on Mars, structure and composition of atmospheres of Titan and Triton, vertical structure and cloud physical processes in outer planet atmospheres, analyses of Voyager imaging data, Galileo entry probe data analysis, physics and chemistry of clouds on Titan and Venus, electrical processes in planetary atmospheres, and evolution of planetary atmospheres. The fellowship is located at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet Field, California, under the advisement of leading planetary scientists in the field.