Earth Science: Climate

Zintellect is offering a NASA Postdoctoral Program opportunity in Earth Science focusing on climate research. The position involves developing and evaluating three-dimensional coupled general circulation models (GCMs) to analyze climate change over multiple time scales. This competitive fellowship is located at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and is open to U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, and eligible foreign nationals.
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 climate program involves basic research on the nature of climate change and climatic processes, mostly based on the development of three-dimensional coupled general circulation models (GCMs) and their evaluation against a variety of observations. Emphasis is placed on analysis of climate changes on multiple time-scales including simulations of recent (20th and 21st Century) climate change, investigations of climate sensitivity including paleoclimatic studies, and on projections of potential future anthropogenic impacts on the climate. Comparisons to observational data from ongoing field campaigns, remote sensing and in situ modern and paleoclimate sources provide fundamental climate data for evaluating global climate model predictions. GCM developmental research focuses on sensitivity to parameterizations of clouds and moist convection, land surface processes, terrestrial ecosystem-atmosphere interactions, ocean processes, ocean-atmosphere interactions, and ice sheet-climate interactions as well as investigations of more accurate numerical methods.

Location:

Goddard Institute for Space Studies

New York City, New York

Field of Science:Earth Science

Advisors:

Susanne E. Bauer

Susanne.E.Bauer@nasa.gov

212.678.5666

Andrew A. Lacis

Andrew.A.Lacis@nasa.gov

212-678-5595

Allegra LeGrande

Allegra.N.LeGrande@nasa.gov

212-678-5556

Ron Miller

Ron.L.Miller@nasa.gov

212-678-5577

Dorothy Marie Peteet

Dorothy.M.Peteet@nasa.gov

212-678-5587

Cynthia Rosenzweig

cynthia.rosenzweig@nasa.gov

212-678-5562

Gavin Schmidt

Gavin.A.Schmidt@nasa.gov

212-678-5627

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://www.nasa.gov/oiir/export-control.

Eligibility is currently open to:
• U.S. Citizens;
• U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR);
• Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J-1 visa status; and,
• 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

Questions about this opportunity? Please email npp@orau.org