EDF fellowships provide high-quality experiences, including relevant projects and opportunities for networking, that form the foundation serious candidates need to pursue an environmental career. The Founders Postdoctoral Fellow will conduct research to explore evidence on the relative role of empirical greenhouse gas emissions data in driving mitigation rates, as opposed to indirectly estimated emissions data. This position is made possible by the EDF Founders’ Fund honoring the scientists who founded EDF, including Charles Wurster. The Fellow will analyze new sources of remotely sensed data, as well as atmospheric and other observations to identify the potential for these data to produce more spatially and temporally constrained emissions inventories and the role that such data may play in accelerating climate action. This work will result in original publishable research, “in-house” analyses for use by other EDF staff, and other communications aimed at policy makers, journalists, and the public at large.