Postdoc Research Day

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The Postdoc Research Day Poster Session is an annual event featuring cutting-edge science and technology work conducted by our postdocs and their advisors. Postdocs present posters summarizing the exciting research they are involved in the areas of:

Astrophysics and Space Science
Earth Science
Planetary Science and Life Detection
Technology, Instrumentation, and Engineering

A panel of judges reviews the posters during the event. Top posters are selected from each category, and the winners are announced at the end of the poster session. Winners receive an engraved plaque and briefly summarize their research at an award ceremony held after the poster day event.

Postdoc Award Ceremony

Photo of the 2022 Postdoc Research Day Awardees (left to right): Deputy Director Lt. Gen. Larry James, Dr. Andreas Gottscholl, Dr. Elodie Lesage, Dr. Enrico Ciracì, Dr. Marion Villenave, Dr. Ovidiu Csillik, and JPL Chief Scientist Prof. Mark Simons.

Poster Research Day and Award Ceremony Photos:

Click here to access and download photos from the 2022 Postdoc Research Day Conference and Award Ceremony.

Below are links to posters presented at the 2022 Postdoc Research Day and the video recording of the 2022 Postdoc Research Day Award Ceremony, where the event's winners presented seminars on their research.

Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor
Astrophysics and Space Science
A-01	Radio and X-Ray Monitoring of Active Magnetars	Robert Wharton	Walid Majid
A-03	Vertical Extent of Mm-Sized Dust in the Young Disk Around IRAS04302	Marion Villenave	Karl Stapelfeldt
A-04	Non-Linear Power Spectrum Models for Roman High Latitude Spectroscopic Survey Between 1.0 < Z < 1.2	Kevin McCarthy	Daniel Stern
A-05	A Temperature Trend for Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanets Atmospheres	Raissa Estrela	Mark Swain
A-06	High-Fidelity Reaction Kinetic Modeling of Hot-Jupiter Atmospheres Incorporating Thermal and UV-Photochemistry Enhanced By Metastable CO	Jeehyun Yang	Murthy Gudipati
A-07	Testing Gravity with the Motion of Galaxies in and Around Galaxy Clusters	Andrew Robertson	Eric Huff
A-08	Complementary Cosmological Simulations	Gabor Racz	Alina Rhodes
A-09	Volcanic Exomoons Glowing in Alkali and Infrared Light	Apurva Oza	Rosaly Lopes
A-11	Investigating the Lens-Dynamic Mass Discrepancy	Michael Talbot	Leonidas Moustakas
A-12	Cosmic Shear from Individual Galaxies	Spencer Everett	Jason Rhodes
Earth Science: Water, Land, Biome, and Carbon Cycle
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor
EB-01	Developing Algorithms for Extracting Water Surface Slopes from SWOT In Coastal Areas	Alexandra Christensen	Marc Simard
EB-03	Spatiotemporal Variations of Stress and Strain in the Crust Near 2019 Ridgecrest Earthquake Sequence	Niloufar Abolfathian	Eric Fielding
EB-05	Spatially Constrained Retrievals for Earth-Facing Imaging Spectroscopy	Regina Eckert	David Thompson
EB-06	Data: Collection, Access & Utilization from an Applied Science Perspective	Cassandra Nickles	Catalina Oaida
EB-07	Advances On Polarimetric Bistatic Radar and Atmospheric Sounding	Joan Munoz-Martin	Nereida Rodriguez Alvarez
EB-08	Large-Scale Vertical Land Motion from Time-series InSAR Displacements	Marin Govorcin	David Bekaert
EB-09	Retrieval of Field-Scale Surface Soil Moisture Over Corn, Soybean and Cotton Crops in the US South Using Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) for the NISAR Mission	Ponnurangam Gramani Ganesan	Seungbum Kim
EB-10	Vegetation Structure Estimation Over California	Samuel Favrichon	Sasan Saatchi
EB-11	Using Machine Learning to Map Dynamic Surface Water Extent from Harmonized SAR and Optical Imagery	Karthik Venkataramani	Charles Marshak
EB-12	Global Patterns in Plant Phenolics Revealed with Spaceborne Imaging Spectroscopy	Adam Chlus	Michelle Gierach
EB-14	Towards Consistent Imaging Spectroscopy-Based Aboveground Biomass Retrievals in Coastal Wetlands Across Atmospheric States	Daniel Jensen	Marc Simard
EB-15	Estimation of Tree Growth Rates with GEDI Data	Adriana Parra	Marc Simard
EB-16	Monitoring Water Level Change in Wetlands With Nisar	Saoussen Belhadj Aissa	Marc Simard
EB-17	Amazon Forest Structural Diversity Estimated Using Field Inventory Plots, Airborne Lidar and GEDI Spaceborne Lidar	Ovidiu Csillik	David Schimel
EB-18	Digging Into Soil Carbon from Space	Eren Bilir	Anthony Bloom
EB-20	InSAR Assisted Subsidence Monitoring in Southern Louisiana	Bhuvan Varugu	Cathleen Jones
EB-22	Tracking Wildfire Recovery Using Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence	Manju Johny	Jonathan Hobbs
Earth Science: Ocean, Ice, Atmosphere, and Climate
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor
EA-01	Inferring the Sensitivity of Warm Rain Efficiency to Cloud Size and the Environment Using A-Train Observations	Kevin Smalley	Matthew Lebsock
EA-02	Using Remote Sensing and In Situ Datasets to Distinguish Coastal from Ocean Sea Surface Temperature Forcing Over the Last 18 Years	Rachel Spratt	Jorge Vazquez
EA-04	Evaluation of the ECCO-SWOT DA System in the California Current at the SWOT Calibration/Validation Site Based On the Pre-Launch Oceanography Field Experiment	Babette Tchonang	Lee-Lueng Fu
EA-05	High Resolution Vertical Land Motion Along the U.S. East Coast	Brett Buzzanga	Benjamin Hamlington
EA-06	Building Bridges Between Land and Ocean Carbon Budgets	Raphael Savelli	Dimitris Menemenlis
EA-07	Ice-Shelf Basal Melt and Dynamics of Petermann Glacier, Greenland from High-Resolution InSAR Data	Enrico Ciracì	Eric Rignot
EA-08	Assessing the Quality of GNSS Radio Occultation Observations in Tropical Cyclones	Kevin Nelson	Chi Ao
EA-09	Calibration of Compact Ocean Wind Vector Radiometer (COWVR)	Maryam Salim	Sidharth Misra
Planetary Science and Life Detection
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor
P-01	Simulating Subsurface Oceans of Icy Moons in the Lab and In Global Models	Marshall Styczinski	Steven Vance
P-02	Experimental Characterization of the Pyridine: Acetylene Co-crystal and Implications for Titan Surface Chemistry	Ellen Czaplinski	Robert Hodyss
P-04	The Thermophysical Properties of Lunar Red Spots from LRO Diviner Lunar Radiometer Experiment Observations	Benjamin Byron	Catherine Elder
P-05	Spiders On Mars, Europa, and In the Laboratory	Lauren McKeown	Serina Diniega
P-06	Cloudspotting On Mars: Exploring Mars's Atmosphere Through Citizen Science	Marek Slipski	Armin Kleinboehl
P-07	Experimental and Modelling Studies on the Phase Behavior of Clathrate Hydrates in the Presence of Ammonia	Elodie Gloesener	Mathieu Choukroun
P-08	Subcritical Water Extraction for Releasing Biosignatures from Microorganisms	Zuzana Cieslarova	Maria Mora
P-09	Wave Analysis of Titan's Superrotation	Cecilia Leung	Leslie Tamppari
P-10	Integrating Underwater OCEANS Analyzer into an EELS Robot	Tomas Drevinskas	Peter Willis
P-11	Development of A Venus Cloud Chamber for Aerobot Instrument Testing	Joseph Salazar	Michael Pauken
P-13	Intentionally Applied Organisms for Regolith-Based Agricultural Systems and Implications for Planetary Protection	Laura Fackrell	Kasthuri Venkateswaran
P-14	Cryovolcanic Eruptions on Europa	Elodie Lesage	Samuel Howell
P-15	Linking Magnesite Microtextures and Organics Preserved Therein to Mg-Carbonates of Jezero Crater, Mars	Emily Cardarelli	Kathryn Stack Morgan
P-16	Predicting Seismicity Using Fault Scaling Relationships: From Mars to Venus	Leah Sabbeth	Suzanne Smrekar
P-17	Investigating the Color and Structure of the 2018-2022 Equatorial Zone Disturbance	Emma Dahl	Glenn Orton
P-18	Linked Magmatic-Tectonic Models of Corona Formation on Venus	Joseph Schools	Suzanne Smrekar
P-19	Radiation-Formed Color Centers of Sodium Chloride on Inner Solar System Bodies	Michael Bramble	Kevin Hand
P-20	Laboratory Investigation of Pluto's Surface Organic Matter	Lora Jovanovic	Murthy Gudipati
P-21	Helium Leak Rate Measurements of Flight-Like Sample Tubes in Preparation for Mars Sample Return	Jeff Osterhout	Rosaly Lopes
P-22	Life Detection on Icy Moons Using Flow Cytometry	Matthew Wallace	James Lambert
P-23	Surface-Subsurface Relationships of Polygonal Terrain on Earth and Mars	Shannon Hibbard	Matthew Golombek
Technology, Instrumentation, and Engineering
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor
T-01	Optically Pumped Solid State Quantum Magnetometers for Space Application	Andreas Gottscholl	Frank Maiwald
T-02	Dual Frequency and Multi-Frequency Feed Horns for Atmospheric Radars	Srinivas Nagaraja	Darmindra Arumugam
T-03	Thermal Evaporation Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition for FUV Mirror Coatings and Bandpass Filters	Robin Rodríguez	John Hennessy
T-04	Fully-Polarimetric Millimeter-Wave Spectrometers for Measurement of Earth's Magnetic Field	Dristy Parveg	Pekka Kangaslahti
T-05	The In-Air Coronagraph Testbed: An Agile Technology Demonstrator of Advanced Techniques for Exoearth Imaging	Axel Potier	Garreth Ruane
T-06	Innovative Antennas for Satellite Telecom, Radio Telescope and Radar	Gaurangi Gupta	Nacer Chahat
T-07	Autonomous Mission Planning and Human-Level Reasoning Using Semantic Representation of Environments	Sangwoo Moon	Aliakbar Aghamohammadi
T-09	MAHD - Mid-Air Helicopter Deployment	Marcel Veismann	Luis Phillipe Tosi
T-10	Formation Sensing	Yashwanth Nakka	Amir Rahmani
T-12	Pose Estimation for Rover-To-Lander Mars Sample Tube Transfer	Nikolaos Mavrakis	Tu-Hoa Pham
T-13	Quantum-Based Distributed Estimation for Multi-Agent Planetary Exploration	Vinod Gehlot	Amir Rahmani
T-14	Large-Format High-Sensitivity Detector Arrays for Far-Infrared Balloon-Borne and Space Telescopes	Reinier Janssen	Charles Bradford
T-15	Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of Superconducting Films for Through-Silicon-via Structures and Photon Detectors	John Femi-Oyetoro	Siamak Forouhar
T-16	Integrated Photonic Devices for Quantum Sensors	Hani Nejadriahi	Siamak Forouhar
T-17	Poster - A Novel X-Ray Imaging Detector Concept	Firat Yasar	Siamak Forouhar
T-18	Volumetric Metaoptics for Compact and Low-Power Spectroscopy	Conner Ballew	Goutam Chattopadhyay
T-19	Learning From Demonstration: Autonomous Navigation in Unstructured Environment	Chung Chanyoung	Aliakbar Aghamohammadi
T-20	End-To-End Off-Road Autonomous Driving Without Real Data	Sungoo Jung	Aliakbar Aghamohammadi
T-21	All-Semiconductor Continuous-Wave Volumetric Ranging for Spaceborne Differential Absorption Lidar	Simone Bianconi	Siamak Forouhar

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