Impacts of Climate Extreme Events on Health

Zintellect is offering a postdoctoral fellowship through the NASA Postdoctoral Program to research the impacts of climate extreme events on health. The position involves analyzing health data from U.S. hospitals and utilizing various NASA datasets. Key objectives include identifying health risks linked to extreme weather, examining compound effects, and evaluating prediction skills. The role is based in Greenbelt, MD, and is not open to Senior Fellows.
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:

1. Identifying extreme weather events strongly associated with health risks.

2. Examining the compound effects of different extreme events.

3. Investigating spatial and seasonal variability in identified climate-health relationships.

4. Exploring large-scale climatic drivers of these extreme events.

5. 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@nasa.gov

(301) 614-6147

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