Remote Sensing Analysis of Bioclimatic Controls on Ecosystem Productivity

This NASA Postdoctoral Program opportunity seeks innovative work to identify biochemical and environmental controls on ecosystem productivity. The approach is to combine observations of solar induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) from a growing network of tower, airborne, and spaceborne sensors, with ancillary biometeorological data, to explore the functioning of photosynthesis under different light, temperature, and moisture conditions and canopy structures. Analysis of ecosystem productivity in the context of a carbon cycle data assimilation system, in which model equations are confronted with a suite of vegetation, carbon, and water cycle observations and weighted by their respective uncertainties, is highly desired. 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.