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Research Interests

  • Remote sensing of global cloud properties from multispectral and hyperspectral data
  • Development of ice cloud bulk single-scattering property models
  • Impact of smoke on ice cloud properties
  • Investigation of decadal trends in global cloud properties derived from satellite data
  • Comparison of cloud properties from passive and active sensors (e.g., CALIPSO to MODIS)
  • Various cal/val efforts involving ground-, aircraft-, and satellite-based sensors

Education

  • B.S., Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 1978
  • M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1985
  • Ph.D., Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 1989

Professional Society Affiliations

  • Member, American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  • Member, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

Professional Appointments and Committees

  • Member, AMS Committee on Atmospheric Radiation, 1998-2001
  • Member, AMS Committee on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications to Environmental Science, 2001-2004
  • Member, AMS Committee on Cloud Physics, 2004-2006
  • Editor, AMS Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 2007-2012 (6 years total)
  • Program co-chair, Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE) conference, sponsored by the Optical Society of America (OSA), Santa Fe, NM, February 12-15, 2007.
  • Program co-chair, Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE) conference, sponsored by OSA, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 27-30, 2009
  • Program co-chair, Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the Environment (HISE) conference, sponsored by OSA, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 10-14, 2011
  • Co-chair: Cloud Retrieval Evaluation Workshops (CREW). Not under the auspices of any formal entity yet but a lot of fun.

Academic Appointments

  • Adjunct Lecturer, 1996-1997, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • Adjunct Professor, 1997-1998, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, 1999-2002, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Proposal Reviewer

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
  • National Science Foundation
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • National Environmental Research Council of the United Kingdom
  • Israel Science Foundation

Journal Referee

  • Reviews of Geophysics
  • Journal of Climate
  • Journal of Applied Meteorology (now Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology)
  • Journal of Atmospheric Science
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology
  • Journal of Geophysical Research (Atmospheres; Oceans)
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Monthly Weather Review
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • Contributions to Atmospheric Physics
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Annals of Glaciology
  • International Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Atmospheric Research
  • Journal of Terrestrial Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
  • Journal of Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Journal
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing (open access journal)
  • Atmospheric Environment
  • Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

Experience

  • Martin Marietta Aerospace, 1980-1983
  • Seemingly never-ending graduate student (U.C.-Boulder and Georgia Tech), 1983-1989
  • NASA Langley Research Center, 1989-2006
  • SSEC, UW-Madison, 2006-Present

NASA Group Achievement Awards

  • 1995: Earth Observing System and Data Information System (EOSDIS) Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) Team (from NASA Langley Research Center)
  • 1995: EOSDIS Version 0 Team (from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
  • 1998: Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy Study (CERES) Team
  • 2003: Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua Mission Team
  • 2012: Suomi NPP Mission Development Team

Funded Proposals

PI: Principal Investigator; Co-I: Co-Investigator

  • PI, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR:Identification of Severe PyroConvection Events in GOES-R and Suomi-NPP Data. Funded for one year from August 2013–July 2014.
  • PI, NASA NPP Science Team for Climate Data Records: Evaluation of VIIRS cloud top property climate data records and their potential improvement with CrIS. Funded 2011-2013
  • PI, NASA Aqua/Terra Science: Investigation of ice cloud bulk scattering and absorption models. Funded 2011-2013
  • PI, NASA GLORY mission: Investigation of Ice Particle Characteristics Through Comparison of APS and MODIS Measurements; Funded 2011-2013