Research Poster Day

The Research Poster Day conference 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 Astrobiology
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

2024 Postdoc Award Ceremony Photo of the 2024 Postdoc Research Day Awardees (top left to right): JPL Deputy Chief Technologist Charles Norton, JPL Deputy Chief Scientist Susan Owen, JPL Chief Scientist Jonathan Lunine, (bottom left to right): Dr. Aaron Bello-Arufe, Dr. Justin Mansell, Dr. Nitika Yurk, Dr. Ashley Schoenfeld.

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Below are links to posters presented by postdocs at the 2024 Research Poster Day.

Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor	Org
Astrophysics and Space Science
A-002	Improving cosmological parameter constraints from galaxy cluster scaling relations via dark matter-gas coherence	Giulia Cerini	Jason Rhodes	326
A-003	High-energy cosmic ray detection with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array	Kathryn Plant	Joseph Lazio	335
A-004	Optical Model and Performance of Hybrid Observatory for Earth-like Exoplanets (HOEE)	Ahmed Mohamed	Shannon Brown	386
A-005	Highest-Resolution (dark) matter mass ever with the James Webb Space Telescope	Diana Scognamiglio	Jason Rhodes	326
A-006	On the Detectability of CH4/CO2/CO and N2O Biosignatures through Reflection Spectroscopy of Terrestrial Exoplanets	Armen Tokadjian	Renyu Hu	326
A-007	3D Biases in General Circulation Models of HD189733 b and Comparisons to MIRI Secondary Eclipse Observations	Paul Bonney	Tiffany Kataria	326
A-008	Measuring the Masses of the TOI-700 Planets with ESPRESSO	Emily Gilbert	Karl Stapelfeldt	326
A-009	High-Temperature Reactor for Atmospheric Chemistry of Exoplanets	Charles Markus	Carl Percival	329
A-010	A Volcanic Atmosphere on the sub-Earth L98-59b	Aaron Bello-Arufe	Renyu Hu	326
Earth Science
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor	Org
E-001	Enabling Bidirectional Data Transfer Between MERIT Hydro Basins and the SWOT River Database (SWORD)	Jeffrey Wade	Cedric David	329
E-002	Validation of TROPESS ozone from AIRS, CrIS, and the joint AIRS-OMI satellite products using ozonesondes	Elyse Pennington	Gregory Osterman	329
E-003	Quantifying Liquid Water Amount in the Greenland Ice Sheet Using SMAP Radiometer Observations	Alamgir Hossan	Andreas Colliander	386
E-004	OCO - 2 : The Journey of a Decade	Saswati Das	Gregory Osterman	329
E-005	Modeling the Arctic land-ocean continuum - Toward a better estimate of the coastal carbon cycle	Clement Maxime Bertin	Dimitris Menemenlis	329
E-006	Mapping the strategic Lithium bearing mineral - Hectorite - with the airborne Hyperspectral Thermal Emission Spectrometer (HyTES)	Federico Rabuffi	Simon Hook	329
E-008	Analytical estimation of carbon dioxide fluxes and information content from OCO-2 satellite data	Hannah Nesser	Kevin Bowman	329
E-009	A mechanics-informed method to learn constitutive relations of the solid Earth from geodetic observations	Rishav Mallick	Eric Fielding	329
E-010	Towards a better understanding of drizzle using millimeter doppler radar	Nitika Yurk	Kenneth Cooper	386
E-011	Global River Discharge From Radar Nadir Altimetry Aided by Gauge-Corrected Model Simulations	Arnaud Cerbelaud	Cedric David	329
E-012	Radar Interferometric and Tomographic Trade Studies Supporting Surface Topography and Vegetation (STV) and Surface Deformation and Change (SDC)	Shashank Srinivas Joshil	Marco Lavalle	334
E-013	Quantifying Uncertainty in Coastal Saltwater Intrusion Under Future Climate Change Scenarios	Hrusikesha Pradhan	Han Kyul Adams	329
E-014	Sub-100 Hz Intrinsic Linewidth 852 nm Silicon Nitride External Cavity Laser	Hani Nejadriahi	Siamak Forouhar	389
E-015	Satellite constraints reveal CO2 fertilization outweighed climate change impacts on the 2001-2021 land carbon sink	Eren Bilir	A. Anthony Bloom	329
E-016	Enhanced Water Storage Capacity Sustains Evapotranspiration During Drought	Elahe Tajfar	Madeleine Pascolini-Campbell	329
E-017	Monitoring Present-day Ocean Carbon in Response to Terrestrial Biogeochemical Fluxes with the ECCO-Darwin Model	Raphaël Savelli	Dimitris Menemenlis	329
E-019	Assessing Coastal Resilience with SAR Time Series	Saoussen Belhadj Aissa	Marc Simard	334
E-020	AVIRIS-NG Data Enhances Numerical Models to Predict Land Loss in Coastal Louisiana	Ali Reza Payendeh	Marc Simard	334
E-021	Calibration/Validation of NISAR BIOMASS Algorithm using NISAR Simulated Products	Naveen Ramachandran	Sasan Saatchi	329
E-022	Evaluation of ECOSTRESS Collection 2 Evapotranspiration Products: strengths and uncertainties for ET modeling	Zoe Pierrat	Kerry-Anne Cawse-Nicholson	329
E-023	Characterization of Vertical Thermodynamic Structures in Tropical Cyclones from GNSS Radio Occultation and Dropsonde Observations	Kevin Nelson	Chi Ao	335
E-024	Estimating the Unobserved: Antarctic State Estimation using the Ice-sheet and Sea-level System Model (ISSM)	Daniel Cheng	Eric Larour	329
E-025	Cloud-enabled Global River Modeling in SWOT Era	Manu Tom	Cedric David	329
E-026	Disaggregating Terrestrial Water Storage: Removing Global Lake and Reservoir Water Change from GRACE/GRACE-FO data and GNSS Station Displacements	Kevin Gaastra	Donald Argus	335
E-027	AirSWOT unlocks surface velocity insights for river discharge	Antoine Soloy	Marc Simard	334
E-029	Multi-frequency mm-wave radars: the new frontier in atmospheric science	Juan Socuellamos	Raquel Rodriguez Monje	334
E-030	Unveiling wave-current interactions with SWOT	Allison Ho	Jinbo Wang	329
E-031	Constraining Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in Greenland with transient mantle rheology and historical deglaciation history	Holly Han	Surendra Adhikari	329
E-032	Ice cloud microphysics in convective environments	Julia Shates	Derek Posselt	329
E-033	SWOT Geostrophic Velocity Validation against in-situ and satellite measurements in the California Current System and Gulf of Mexico	Babette Christelle Tchonang	Lee-Lueng Fu	329
E-034	GRACE-FO Accelerometer Thermal Correction Model	Vishala Arya	Try Lam	392
E-035	Submesoscale Turbulence Structure from SWOT and in situ Steric Height in the California Cal/Val Crossover	Luke Kachelein	Jinbo Wang	329
Planetary Science and Astrobiology
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor	Org
P-002	Determination of the Interior Structure of Europa from Gravity and Magnetic Data	Flavio Petricca	Julie Castillo	322
P-003	Longevity of Water-Rock Interaction Inferred from Hydrated Silica on Mars	Joana Voigt	Vivian Sun	397
P-004	Global Significance of Serpentine on Mars	Al Emran	Kathryn Stack Morgan	322
P-005	Ice Giant Seismology from a Uranus Orbiter	Christopher Mankovich	Mark Hofstadter	322
P-006	Saturn's Small-scale Winds Revealed by its High-degree Gravity Field	Seho Kim	Marzia Parisi	332
P-007	Phosphorus and Mineral Interactions on Enceladus	Katherine Dzurilla	Laura Barge	322
P-008	Depositional history of the upper unit of the western fan: evidence for late-stage fluvial and potential igneous activity, Jezero crater, Mars	Samantha Gwizd	Kathryn Stack Morgan	322
P-009	Surface process influencing regolith instability on Europa	Rutu Parekh	Robert Pappalardo	322
P-010	“Salt Tectonics” on Titan: radial labyrinths as topographic expressions of solid-state flow	Ashley Schoenfeld	Steven Vance	322
P-011	Asteroid High-Precision Astrometry: Masses and Sizes revealed in Orbit Determination	Oscar Fuentes Munoz	Ryan Park	392
P-012	Visible-Wavelength Spectra of the Uranian Satellites	Riley DeColibus	Bonnie Buratti	322
P-013	Replicating In Situ Ocean World Plume and Exospheric Ice Grain Sampling in the Laboratory	Marshall Seaton	Bryana Henderson	322
P-014	Electron induced chemistry and sputtering of organics from Europa relevant environment	Sankhabrata Chandra	Bryana Henderson	322
P-015	Testing the 'penitente' hypothesis on Europa via photometric roughness	Ishan Mishra	Bonnie Buratti	322
P-016	The effect of volcanic sulphur on the climate of early Mars	Ashwin Braude	Marek Slipski	322
P-017	Volatile Composition of Volcanically Sourced Lunar Ice Deposits	Andrew Wilcoski	Catherine Elder	322
P-018	Preservation and Detection of Biosignatures Under Simulated Ocean World Surface Conditions	Lena Vincent	Aaron Noell	389
P-019	Dayside Reconnection Voltages Applied to Uranus' Magnetosphere	Sophia Zomerdijk-Russell	Jamie Jasinski	322
P-020	Simulating Early Earth Hydrothermal Vents Testing The Origins of Metabolism	Osama Alian	Laura Barge	322
Technology, Instrumentation, and Engineering
Poster Number	Title	Author	Postdoc Advisor	Org
T-001	Quantum Limited Amplifiers for Astronomical Instrumentation	Farzad Faramarzi	Peter Day	389
T-002	Risk-guided Diffusion for Safe Navigation in Unknown Environments with Visual Language Action Models	Sangwoo Moon	Benjamin Morrell	347
T-003	Polarization Wavefront Correction for the Habitable Worlds Observatory using Metasurfaces	Daniel Shanks	Siamak Forouhar	389
T-004	Toward Frequency Domain Multiplexing SNSPDs using the KPUP	Sasha Sypkens	Matthew Shaw	389
T-005	Photonic integrated circuit for broadband >80 dB contrast photonic coronagraphs	Luis Pereira da Costa	Ryan Briggs	389
T-006	An Optical Dipole Trap for NASA's Cold Atom Lab	Sofia Botsi	Ethan Elliott	332
T-007	Scalar Vortex Coronagraphs for HWO	Niyati Desai	Bertrand Mennesson	326
T-008	Strontium Optical Lattice Clock (Sr OLC)	Tin Nghia Nguyen	Nan Yu	332
T-010	MgB2 Thermal Kinetic Inductance Bolometer	Tahereh Jabbari	Daniel Cunnane	389
T-012	Development of A Stratospheric Balloon Hyperspectral Microwave Radiometer for Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Observation	Ahmed Mohamed	Shannon Brown	386
T-013	Metasurface-based scalar phase masks for exoplanet imaging	Lorenzo Koenig	Eugene Serabyn	326
T-014	SPARSE ARRAY OF THERMAL RESONATORS FOR INFRARED DETECTION AND IMAGING	Hannah Isabel Harrysson Rodrigues	Mina Rais-Zadeh	389
T-015	Developing Contingency Options for INCUS: Differential Drag for Constellation Maintenance	Kenza Boudad	Jon Sims	392
T-017	Spin Defect Engineering For A New Generation Of Quantum Magnetometers	Andreas Gottscholl	Hannes Kraus	389
T-018	Assessing the Accuracy of Gravity Models for Landing on Phobos	Justin Mansell	Eric Gustafson	392
T-019	Dual Frequency Ka-Band Metasurface Antenna for Deep-Space Network Telecommunications	Kristy Hecht	Nacer Chahat	337
T-021	SAVE: For Europa Clipper	Vishala Arya	Try Lam	392
T-022	Hello worlds! Quasi-static wavefront error correction for directly imaging exoplanets	Susan Redmond	Garreth Ruane	326

Research Poster Day