ORAU
Earth Science: Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate: Flows between Lake
ORAU, New York, New York, us, 10261
Overview
Earth Science: Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate: Flows between Lakes, Rivers, Soils, Vegetation, and Atmosphere — NASA Postdoctoral Program opportunity at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Description
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 opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD). The distribution of water on land in lakes, rivers, soils, aquifers, and vegetation varies not only seasonally but has changed through Earth's history and is undergoing shifts now with climate change as well as with human land use. These several components of land surface hydrology are not always clearly distinct from each other, as demonstrated by recent extreme climate events, like flooding, or by trends in human land use, such as draining of peatlands. At NASA GISS, we develop and conduct experiments with an Earth System Model, ModelE, which has played a key role in predicting climate change. The land surface model in ModelE quantifies important metrics for impacts of climate change on surface temperature, precipitation, drought, lake water storage, river flow, snow, land biogeochemistry, and more. Postdoctoral fellows are invited to propose research to investigate the role of land surface hydrology and its coupling with different aspects of the climate system. Studies could involve, but are not not limited to: wetlands coupling of vegetation, soils, and peatlands dynamics of lakes and rivers flooding with climate change scenarios model evaluation with remote sensing observations from missions such as SWOT, SMAP, GRACE, or others. Qualifications
Successful applicants should have experience with mathematical modeling, computer programming, and analyzing field and remote sensing datasets. Background in the following is highly desirable: Earth, Physical, and/or Computing Sciences, advanced statistics, programming in a compiled language like C or FORTRAN95, and scripting with python or R. Field of Science
Field of Science:
Earth Science Advisors
Nancy Kiang Nancy.Y.Kiang@nasa.gov (212) 678-5553 Gary Russell Gary.L.Russell@nasa.gov (212) 678-4787 Allegra LeGrande Allegra.N.LeGrande@nasa.gov (212) 678-5556 Designated Countries
Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: NASA export control site. Eligibility
Degree:
Doctoral Degree. Questions and Contact
Questions about this opportunity?
Please email npp@orau.org Point of Contact
Mikeala Details
Seniority level: Internship Employment type: Temporary Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology Industries: Government Administration
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Earth Science: Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate: Flows between Lakes, Rivers, Soils, Vegetation, and Atmosphere — NASA Postdoctoral Program opportunity at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). Description
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 opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD). The distribution of water on land in lakes, rivers, soils, aquifers, and vegetation varies not only seasonally but has changed through Earth's history and is undergoing shifts now with climate change as well as with human land use. These several components of land surface hydrology are not always clearly distinct from each other, as demonstrated by recent extreme climate events, like flooding, or by trends in human land use, such as draining of peatlands. At NASA GISS, we develop and conduct experiments with an Earth System Model, ModelE, which has played a key role in predicting climate change. The land surface model in ModelE quantifies important metrics for impacts of climate change on surface temperature, precipitation, drought, lake water storage, river flow, snow, land biogeochemistry, and more. Postdoctoral fellows are invited to propose research to investigate the role of land surface hydrology and its coupling with different aspects of the climate system. Studies could involve, but are not not limited to: wetlands coupling of vegetation, soils, and peatlands dynamics of lakes and rivers flooding with climate change scenarios model evaluation with remote sensing observations from missions such as SWOT, SMAP, GRACE, or others. Qualifications
Successful applicants should have experience with mathematical modeling, computer programming, and analyzing field and remote sensing datasets. Background in the following is highly desirable: Earth, Physical, and/or Computing Sciences, advanced statistics, programming in a compiled language like C or FORTRAN95, and scripting with python or R. Field of Science
Field of Science:
Earth Science Advisors
Nancy Kiang Nancy.Y.Kiang@nasa.gov (212) 678-5553 Gary Russell Gary.L.Russell@nasa.gov (212) 678-4787 Allegra LeGrande Allegra.N.LeGrande@nasa.gov (212) 678-5556 Designated Countries
Applications with citizens from Designated Countries will not be accepted at this time, unless they are Legal Permanent Residents of the United States. A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: NASA export control site. Eligibility
Degree:
Doctoral Degree. Questions and Contact
Questions about this opportunity?
Please email npp@orau.org Point of Contact
Mikeala Details
Seniority level: Internship Employment type: Temporary Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology Industries: Government Administration
#J-18808-Ljbffr