Past Research
Adiabatic Demagnetization Refrigerator
Built by SSEC, the ADR was flown on the Astro-E
satellite, a joint Japanese-NASA X-ray astronomy project and was
used to cool one of the satellite's X-ray detectors
Coastal Geomorphology
The coastal Louisiana Geomorphology (CLAGEO)
project investigated the causes of erosion and deposition of sediment
along Louisiana's coast. (Project
Website)
ERBE: Earth Radiation Budget Experiment
NASA experiment involving satellite derived
measurements of a variety of radiation parameters to determine the
net balance of radiation being absorped or transmitted by the Earth
GOES Pathfinder
Project involving the processing of data
streams from the VISSR/VAS sensors aboard the GOES-7 satellite to
create satellite image products
Hubble Space Telescope High Speed Photometer
Detector aboard the Hubble Space Telescope
that measures the brightness of celestial objects in several different
spectral bands of ultraviolet and visible radiation
MURI: Multidisciplinary Research Program of the University Research Initiative
A cooperative research initiative between
ONR, UW-CIMSS, UH-HIGP, and Texas A&M University
Satellite Observations Used in Agriculture
Development of management decision aids that
derive much of their power from satellite data, including estimates
of cloud cover and solar radiation.
Stennis Project: Radiances and Cloud Analyses from GOES Dwell Soundings
Work on addressing the lack of coordinated
data sets of cloudiness, radiation, and water vapor for use in global
climate models
