NASA Postdoctoral Program - Weather and winds in outer planet 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 designed to advance NASA's missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology. This specific opportunity focuses on investigating the atmospheres of outer planets and their moons (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Titan, Triton), examining weather patterns, winds, and climate dynamics. The research may involve acquiring and reducing observational data from spacecraft missions, ground and space-based telescopes, data modeling through radiative transfer, laboratory work on ices, and modeling of global or local climates, atmospheric chemistry and cloud microphysics. The position offers the chance to work with vast datasets from missions including Voyager, Galileo, Cassini-Huygens, Juno, and observations from JWST and other advanced observatories.