Remote Sensing from Space: NASA Biodiversity and Ecological Conservation Opportunity with the NASA Earth eXchange (NEX)

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

The NASA Earth eXchange (NEX) seeks a post-doctoral fellow to conduct biodiversity and ecological conservation research under NASA’s Earth Action framework and in collaboration with the California Sentinel Site Network (CA-SSN), a partnership between the UC Natural Reserve System (UCNRS) and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).

• Conduct original and innovative research that links in-situ biodiversity observations with NASA remote sensing to generate products and insights that enables NASA stakeholders and partners, including CA-SSN, to quantify biodiversity trends, particularly in response to Earth system variability, land-use change, and other shifting environmental conditions and stressors.
• Integrate in situ data with remotely sensed observations from multiple methods and develop cross-sensor capabilities (e.g., combining SAR and hyperspectral) to derive meaningful insights for biodiversity and ecological conservation.
• Collaborate with CA-SSN’s diverse ecosystems to provide valuable input to NASA’s data development process, ensuring data products are broad enough to support a range of questions while also being capable of delivering actionable insights on the ground through specific use cases.

Requirements

Candidate must have a PhD in a related field and experience working with remote sensing data. Experience with high-performance computing is desirable, but not required.

Qualifications

• Doctoral Degree.

Skills

Experience with remote sensing data and high-performance computing.

Benefits

NASA Earth eXchange (NEX) provides a collaborative supercomputing and data analytics platform that improves the availability of Earth science data from NASA missions and other sources, models, analysis tools and research results through a centralized environment that fosters knowledge sharing, collaboration, and innovation.

Pay

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Schedule

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