Remote Sensing Analysis of Bioclimatic Controls Ecosystem Productivity

Organization

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

0188-NPP-NOV
26-JPL-Earth Sci

11/1/2026 6:00:59 PM Eastern Time Zone

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 research 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.

Incorporation of observations from OCO‑2, TROPOMI, and ground sensors (e.g., Grossman et al., 2018) is likely to provide significant advances.

References:
Grossmann, K., Frankenberg,

C., Magney, T. S., Hurlock, S.

C., Seibt, U., & Stutz, J. (2018). Photo Spec: A new instrument to measure spatially distributed red and far‑red Solar‑Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence. Remote sensing of environment, 216, 311‑327.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Earth Science

• Nicholas Parazoo (nicholas.c.parazooa.gov, )

• Doctoral Degree.
• U.S. Citizens; U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents;
  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 a valid EAD card and I-485 or I-589 forms in pending status.