Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing using Lidar

About the role

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities in remote atmospheric measurements, including cloud and aerosol studies using space-based lidars and advanced data processing algorithms.

Description

New techniques and instrumentation are developed and applied for remote atmospheric measurements. Current research includes cloud and aerosol studies using space-based lidars such as the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) on the ISS and the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2), as well as lidar instrumentation operated from high-altitude NASA research aircraft (Cloud Physics Lidar and the Roscoe upper troposphere/lower stratosphere lidar).

• Additional projects include the development of machine learning and advanced data processing algorithms, and participation in upcoming field campaigns such as the INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus Experiment (INSPYRE).
• Active lidar sensing is employed in conjunction with advanced visible and IR sensors, and other atmospheric radiation measurements in atmospheric field programs.
• Development and application of new lidar technology and machine learning methods are emphasized.
• We investigate and interpret observations from multiple sensors to characterize the physical, radiative, and dynamical cloud and aerosol properties.

Location

Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland

Field of Science

Earth Science

Advisors

• Meloe Kacenelenbogen
  meloe.s.kacenelenbogen@nasa.gov
  301.614.6221
• John E. Yorks
  john.e.yorks@nasa.gov
  301-614-6284

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

Contact

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