Ceremonies held in September honored five postdoctoral scholars for their outstanding research efforts at JPL.

 

The researchers won a competition at the annual Postdoctoral Research Day. The day showcased the outstanding work of postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Earth science, astrophysics and space science, planetary science and life detection, and technology, instrumentation and engineering.

 

The winners delivered lectures on their work at the September 22nd awards ceremony and were presented with commemorative plaques by JPL Chief Scientist, Mark Simons.

 

Of the posters presented, five were selected by a panel of judges. The awardees are:

• Alexander Merson for his work on Predicting the number density of Hα emitting galaxies
• Cunren Liang for his work on Measuring azimuth deformation with L-band wide-swath SAR interferometry
• Zhan Su for his work on Explaining the trend of Antarctic sea-ice in the past three decades
• Samuel Howell for his work on Modes of extensional terrain formation in icy satellites: Implications for surface-ocean interaction
• Tamara Bandikova for her work on GRACE accelerometer data transplant

 

The annual Postdoctoral Research Day showcases the outstanding work of postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Earth science, astrophysics and space science, planetary science and life detection, and technology, instrumentation and engineering.

 

To learn more about JPL's postdoctoral programs, please visit https://postdocs.jpl.nasa.gov.