NASA Postdoctoral Program - Strengthening NASA Air Quality Observations with Low-Cost Sensor Data

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 at NASA Ames Research Center is for a postdoctoral assistant with research interests in low-cost sensors and/or data fusion to join the Trace Gas measurement group. The position involves working with both hardware and data to improve sensors' relevance to other NASA-sponsored air quality datasets. The successful candidate will help build, calibrate, and deploy low-cost air quality sensors and analyze data from the INSTEP network in conjunction with others. Sensor data fusion along with remote sensing instruments (Pandora, AERONET) and satellites (TROPOMI, TEMPO) will serve to validate satellite measurements of air quality events. This position will also afford opportunities to contribute to a NASA-sponsored sensor and remote sensing database, including work on ArcGIS mapping, geospatial interpolation (such as kriging), and other data visualization tools. Development of secondary projects which foster collaborations with other researchers both at NASA Ames and externally is also encouraged.