Local recruitment: Postdoc: The impact of riverine outflow on Arctic Ocean biogeochemistry

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Pasadena, CA, USA 🇺🇸

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JPL is unique among NASA Centers in that its staff are Caltech employees, yet can access NASA technical resources. Cross-discipline teamwork is standard here: colleagues across JPL’s science and engineering organizations and Caltech’s academic campus often work together. Learning to speak and understand other disciplines’ languages is a doorway to the creativity needed to do what has not been done before. JPL staff are encouraged to create mission concepts that address humanity’s core questions through a combination of science and technology. They are supported in developing ideas into proposals and hardware, and communicating funded missions’ results to the scientific community and the broader public. JPL seeks to employ scientists and engineers who are passionate about lifelong learning and excited to contribute to and lead team efforts. We emphasize the importance of partnering across discipline boundaries and creating a friendly, constructive work environment to overcome space exploration’s challenges. The postdocs at JPL benefit from an informal mentoring network, an annual conference showcasing their results, a dedicated seminar series, exposure to diverse career paths, and social connections across the JPL and Caltech community for advice on housing, childcare, and other aspects of living in southern California.

Quantify the impacts of riverine outflow on the biogeochemistry of the Arctic Ocean, particularly the shallow coastal regions near the Mackenzie Delta and along Alaska’s North Slope. Gather chemical and isotopic signatures related to amplified Arctic hydrologic cycling and link to other cycles, particularly carbon cycling. Identify signatures of permafrost state change and its consequences for perturbations to the Arctic land-ocean continuum.

Will work with the NASA ABoVE, Arctic COLORS, and IDS-19 teams to synthesize results with state of the art ECCO-Darwin models tailored for the Arctic Ocean.

Publish results in the peer-reviewed literature

Requirements:

PhD in Arctic Systems Science, Geology, or the equivalent. Desire some previous postdoctoral experience. Expertise in Arctic field work, chemical and isotopic analyses, including 14C. Interest in fusing field data with airborne and/or satellite remote sensing data. Ability to work well in a scientific team. Excellent written and oral communications skills.

The appointee will carry out research in collaboration with the JPL advisor, resulting in publications in the open literature.

Applicants may be subject to additional program requirements by NASA. Postdoctoral Scholar positions are awarded for a minimum of one-year period and may be renewed up to a maximum of three years. Candidates should submit the following to this site: CV, representative publications, contact information for three references, and a cover letter stating their research accomplishments and interests.

JPL is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy or perceived pregnancy, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status or any other characteristic or condition protected by Federal, state or local law.

In addition, JPL is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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