Wildland Fire Impacts, Modeling, and Applications

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

• Explore pathways and intersections of R&A and T&D efforts with the needs of the stakeholder community.
• Engage with the stakeholder community and our partners, including the US Forest Service, USGS, Department of Interior, other NASA centers, as well as NGO and state, local, and tribal agencies and partners, embedded in both the Wildfire Applications Program, and the FireSense project.
• Proposed projects focused on the U.S., including Alaska and Hawai’i, and larger international regional areas (boreal, Arctic, tropics, etc.) would be appropriate.
• Potentially global-scale projects will be applicable dependent upon the methodologies to be used and identification of the appropriate stakeholder community.

Requirements

• Doctoral Degree.

Qualifications

• In R2A (Research-to-Applications) efforts at NASA, building lasting relationships, communities, and alliances can unleash the innovative power of NASA to enable more effective fire landscape management by stakeholders.

Skills

• Understanding of fire lifecycle and its impact on various environments.
• Experience with data science, atmospheric composition and air quality, ecological assessments and forecasting.
• Knowledge of remote-sensing and in-situ instrumentation to observe pre-fire, active fire, and post-fire atmosphere and land surface cover.
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders and partners, including the US Forest Service, USGS, Department of Interior, other NASA centers, as well as NGO and state, local, and tribal agencies and partners.

Benefits

• Tangible value to the program.
• Publish work in top-ranked journals.
• Present at meetings and conferences.

Pay

• Details on pay are not specified in the provided information.

Schedule

• Details on schedule are not specified in the provided information.

Additional Information

• Field of Science: Earth Science.
• Advisors: Jessica McCarty-Kern (jessica.l.mccarty-kern@nasa.gov, (650) 623-7766).
• 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.
• Contact Point: Mikeala.
• Designated Countries: A complete list of Designated Countries can be found at: https://www.nasa.gov/oiir/export-control.