Earth Science: Land Water Distribution Changing Climate: Flows Lakes, Rivers, Soil

Position: Earth Science: Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate: Flows between Lakes, Rivers, Soil[...]
Location: New York

Earth Science:
Land Water Distribution with Changing Climate:
Flows between Lakes, Rivers, Soils, Vegetation, and Atmosphere

Organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Reference Code: 0021-NPP-MAR
26-GISS-Earth Sci

How to Apply: All applications must be submitted through Zintellect. Please visit the NASA Postdoctoral Program website for application instructions and requirements: how to apply | NASA Postdoctoral Program (orau.org)

Final date to receive applications: 3/1/2026 6:00:59 PM Eastern Time Zone

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 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 the Earth System Model, Model

E, which has played a key role in predicting climate change. The land surface model in Model

E quantifies important metrics for impacts of climate change on surface temperature, precipitation, drought, lake water storage, river flow, snow, land biogeochemistry, and more.

Responsibilities

• Propose research to investigate the role of land surface hydrology and its coupling with different aspects of the climate system.
• Conduct studies on wetlands coupling of vegetation, soils, and peatlands.
• Explore dynamics of lakes and rivers.
• Analyze flooding with climate change scenarios.
• Evaluate models 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 FORTRAN
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• Script programming with Python or R

Advisors

Nancy Kiang – Nancy.

Y.Kiang –

Allegra Le Grande – Allegra.

N.LeGrande –

Eligibility

• U.S. Citizens
• U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR)
• Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J‑1 visa status
• Applicants for LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. at the time of application with
  1) a valid EAD card and
  2) I‑485 or I‑589 forms in pending status

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: https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..

Point of Contact

Mikeala – npp

Employment Type

Temporary

Seniority Level

Internship

Job Function

Research, Analyst, and Information Technology

Industries

Government Administration

Contact for Questions

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