Postdoctoral Researcher
Affiliation: Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center
Division: Earth Science Division (SG)
Email: paul.o.seibert@nasa.gov
Personal Biography
Paul Seibert is a postdoctoral researcher with the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute at NASA Ames working on wildland fire fuel type characterization and load quantification using satellite remote sensing methods. Paul finished his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2026, where he worked on characterizing the impacts of fog and dew on productivity of coastal California grasses. His expertise also includes near-surface imaging spectroscopy for sensing of solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF).
Education
Ph.D., 2026, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
M.S., 2022, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
B.S., 2017, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park
Research Interests
Remote sensing applications, wildland fire, hydrology, terrestrial ecology, natural resource management, near surface spectroscopy
Awards and Honors
U.S. Dept. of Energy Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) Fellow (2025 — 2026)
Select Publications
- Cao, A. J., Z. Li, Seibert, P.O., & Gerlein-Safdi C. 2026. “The Role of Leaf Wettability and Morphology on Leaf Surface Water Storage: A Cross-Biome Synthesis.” Ecohydrology 19, no. 1: e70162. https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.70162
- Seibert, P. O., Camp, E. M., Dawson, T. E., & Gerlein-Safdi, C. 2025. “Foliar water uptake of C3 perennial grasses under drought.” Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 130, e2025JG008990. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JG008990
- Ruehr, S., Gerlein-Safdi, C., Falco, N., Seibert, P. O., Chou, C., Albert, L., & Keenan, T. F. 2024. “Quantifying seasonal and diurnal cycles of solar-induced fluorescence with a novel hyperspectral imager.” Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107429. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107429
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