Impacts of Climate Extreme Events Health

Overview

Organization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Reference Code
0296-NPP-NOV
26-GSFC-Earth Sci

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.

About the NASA Postdoctoral Program
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.

Description
This opportunity is closed to applicants who are Senior Fellows (5-years or more past PhD).

The NASA Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO) is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to investigate the impacts of climate extreme events on human health. This research will utilize health data collected from hospitals across the United States, spanning a broad age range from newborns to adults. The study will also incorporate various NASA datasets, including reanalysis products, satellite observations, and subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) forecasts.

Key research objectives include:

• Identifying extreme weather events strongly associated with health risks.
• Examining the compound effects of different extreme events.
• Investigating spatial and seasonal variability in identified climate-health relationships.
• Exploring large-scale climatic drivers of these extreme events.
• Evaluating the prediction skills for these events.

This opportunity will entail working in the NASA high performance computing environment.

Field of Science
Earth Science

Advisors: Michael Bosilovich

Michael.

G.Bosilovich

Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp

Qualifications

Potential candidates should have a Ph.D. in climate science or a related field, including other desirable qualifications:

• Strong data analysis skills, including experience working with large climate datasets.
• Programming experience, particularly in Python, and proficiency with Linux platforms.
• A proven record of publications, preferably on the climate-public health nexus.
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques.

Eligibility Requirements

• Citizenship: LPR or U.S. Citizen
• Degree:
  Doctoral Degree.