NASA Postdoctoral Program - Tsunami Source Inversion with Geospatial Measurements

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 research opportunity focuses on studying major earthquake processes using geospatial measurements, such as high-rate GPS data, seismographs, and GRACE measurements. Modeling earthquake fault parameters for tsunami early detections is the key part of the project. Processing real-time data streams, analyzing historical data sets, and model results are necessary. The fellowship is hosted at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, within the Earth Science field. Applicants should have a recent Ph.D. in geophysics, geodesy, applied mathematics, computational fluid dynamics, or a related field, with skills in Unix/Linux, Matlab and parallel computing being essential.