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Research opportunities exist within a project called ECCO2 ( aims to produce increasingly accurate syntheses of the available global-ocean and sea-ice data at resolutions that start to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current sys...
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Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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A research opportunity exists to investigate the interaction between the Southern Ocean and the Antarctic Ice Sheet using numerical ocean general circulation models and ocean state estimates. Research into the impact of Southern Ocean...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Recent studies have demonstrated that glaciers play a central role in the evolution of ice sheets, and ice sheet numerical models indicate that the largest uncertainties in sea level projection are caused by uncertainties in the evolu...
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Temporary work
Remote job
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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This opportunity is for research on the preservation of biosignatures, or evidence of organic chemical evolution, in cryogenic ices in support of Astrobiological exploration of Ocean Worlds and fundamental Solar System evolution. The ...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Postdoctoral Scholar Position-Innovative Ocean Modeling for Satellite Ocean Salinity /Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
The California Institute of Technology Postdoctoral Scholars Progra...
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Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Jupiter’s moon Europa is a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth. NASA’s Europa Clipper mission aims to investigate the habitability of this icy world with a suite of 10 science instruments when it arrive...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Research opportunities exist within a science program in the upcoming NISAR mission () to derive and analyze sea ice motion products based on satellite SAR time-series observations in the Arctic and Southern Oceans. A ...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Geophysical measurements can reveal the structures and thermal states of icy ocean worlds (Vance et al. 2018). The interior density, temperature, sound speed, and electrical conductivity thus characterize their habitability (Vance et ...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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Antarctic glaciers, ice streams, and ice shelves have thinned and sped up in recent decades in response to enhanced ocean melting, particularly in areas surrounding the Amundsen sea sector of the ice sheet. Despite the intense researc...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
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This research opportunity aims to describe and to understand physical processes governing large-scale global ocean circulation from assimilating satellite observations with models of the ocean. The process of combining data and models...
Permanent employment
Pasadena, CA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)