PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Remote Sensing in United States

Lehigh University’s Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience is seeking a postdoctoral research associate to contribute to collaborative research within a new multi-university consortium. The researcher will work under the mentorship of center associate director Ethan Yang and associate professor Hong-Yi Li, alongside faculty and researchers across the center. The research will address catastrophe modeling and resilience assessment, with opportunities to pursue fundamental or applied work ...

DARE is hiring a Postdoctoral Associate in Machine Learning and Remote Sensing to contribute to global-scale mapping of critical water infrastructure. The position is part of the Dynamic Atlas of Riverine Ecosystems and Infrastructure (DARE) project. The postdoctoral researcher will work on applying machine learning, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis to understand and map water infrastructure at a global scale, with connections to hydrology and riverine ecosystems. The researcher will...

The Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to advance remote sensing science for the joint NASA/USGS Landsat mission. The project focuses on developing remote sensing algorithms, simulation and modeling capabilities, and artificial intelligence and machine learning methods that support future Landsat goals. The selected researcher will use the Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation (DIRSIG) model to...

The Department of Earth System Science at the University of California, Irvine is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to investigate the global spatial organization of precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation using satellite observations and models. This research sits at the intersection of hydrology, remote sensing, and Earth system science, with a strong emphasis on understanding how hydrologic and vegetation conditions vary across spatial scales. The project examines the environmental factors ...

The University of California, Irvine is seeking a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Earth System Science to work with Professor Henri Drake on a project focused on synchronous ice sheet–Earth system modeling. The research is centered on understanding how grounded ice sheets, floating ice shelves, icebergs, and sea ice interact with the ocean and influence global climate dynamics. The selected scholar will work with computational models to investigate two-way feedbacks in the cryosphere–o...

The Center for Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience (CAT) at Lehigh University is offering a postdoctoral research associate position focused on catastrophe modeling, flood hazard analysis, and resilience assessment. The postdoc will join an active research center and contribute to a new multi-university consortium, working in the research groups led by Ethan Yang and Hong-Yi Li. The project centers on advancing methods for flood hazard modeling and flood risk and loss estimation, including river...

The Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation at Virginia Tech is recruiting a postdoctoral associate for an ESTCP-funded project focused on vegetation, fuel, and fire behavior tools in hardwood-dominated forest ecosystems of Virginia and the eastern United States. The project is led by Dr. Adam Coates with Drs. Carrie Fearer, Verl Emrick, and Mark Ford serving as co-investigators. The research brings together field ecology, remote sensing, and fire science to better understa...

This postdoctoral associate position at Virginia Tech’s School of Plant and Environmental Sciences joins an interdisciplinary team focused on soil hydraulic characterization, environmental sensing, and hydrologic modeling. The project is centered on developing innovative approaches to improve how soil hydraulic properties are measured and interpreted through novel sensing, modeling, and data integration. The successful candidate will work with faculty in the Environmental Soil Science group and ...

Texas A&M AgriLife Research is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Temple, Texas, to support multidisciplinary research in crop modeling, agricultural remote sensing, and geospatial technologies. The researcher will investigate crop growth and yield, water use, and carbon and nitrogen cycling under different agricultural management practices. Responsibilities include designing and managing field experiments, collecting ground-truth data, analyzing datasets, operating and refin...