1 August 2012
An interesting landslide modelling post-doctoral position with NASA
Posted by Dave Petley
This from Dalia Kirschbaum at NASA:
We are in search of a Postdoctoral Research Associate to focus on landslide modeling and hazard assessment. The position is at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland through an appointment at the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center (ESSIC) at The University of Maryland.
The post description is available at http://essic.umd.edu/joom2/index.php/employment/1096-research-associate-or-faculty-research-assistant
The position is to “research and programming support for a NASA/Goddard effort to develop, test and apply a global system for estimating landslides using satellite precipitation information, other satellite data and hydrological and land surface models. This is a great post with a world class team.
Dave Petley is the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hull in the United Kingdom. His blog provides commentary and analysis of landslide events occurring worldwide, including the landslides themselves, latest research, and conferences and meetings.
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And: that really does sound like a very, very fun job!