Research Associate for NISAR

The Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences (SESS) at The University of Texas at Dallas invites applicants for a Postdoctoral Research position in radar remote sensing, funded and mentored by Prof. Yujie Zheng. The postdoctoral researcher will work on a NASA-funded NISAR project focused on using interferometric closure phase and multi-frequency L- and S-band radar observations to characterize irrigation-driven soil moisture variability. A major emphasis will be developing and evaluating a joint L-/S-band retrieval algorithm that uses complementary frequency-dependent sensitivities to constrain vertical soil-moisture structure. The researcher will also contribute to NISAR data processing, physical modeling, uncertainty analysis, validation with in situ observations, publications, and open-science products. The researcher will be encouraged to pursue complementary independent research and participate in proposal development.

The postdoc will be part of an active research group in geophysics and remote sensing and will have opportunities to collaborate with graduate and undergraduate researchers. The position is for two years and may be renewed for a third year, subject to satisfactory performance and availability of funding.