Hybrid Staff Scientist en California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

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Job Summary

The researcher position will be approximately half Mars 2020 rover Perseverance Mastcam-Z work and half lunar polar water work with occasional assistance on Earth remote sensing projects. The Mars portion will include working with the science and operations teams of Mars-2020, assisting in staffing tactical operations and, scientifically, working on the identification of geologic/compositional units along the rover traverse, combining Mastcam-Z multispectral data with color and compositional mapping from orbit (CRISM and color imagers). The Moon work will include the multi-dataset analysis of the abundance and distribution of water in lunar polar regions, making maps for publication

Essential Job Duties

• Working with the science and operations teams of Mars-2020, assisting in staffing tactical operations to plan rover science activities and analyze daily downlinks.
• Working on the identification of geologic/compositional units along the rover traverse, combining Mastcam-Z multispectral data with color and compositional mapping from orbit (CRISM and color imagers).
• Analyzing multi-datasets of the abundance and distribution of water in lunar polar regions
• Making maps for publication.

Basic Qualifications

• Ph.D. and post-Ph.D experience.
• Experience in data reduction of spectrometer, lidar, and imaging instrument data. 
• Coding and scripting for science data analysis. 
• Demonstrated intellectual leadership by scientific first-author publications.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Moon and Mars data reduction and science questions.

Required Documents

• Resume