Current appointments and positions:
- Distinguished scientist of UW-Madison – since 1 September
2006
- Permanent Principal Investigator (PI) of University of
Wisconsin-Madison – since December 2007
- Fellow of International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
– Since December 2007
- Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty at Texas A&M
University, USA – since May 2007
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- Adjunct professor of Lanzhou University, China – since May
2007
- Senior regional editor, SPIE Journal of Applied Remote Sensing
– Since 2007
- Executive Committee member of SPIE Optical Engineering +
Applications 2008 Executive Committee
- Science council member of CIMSS - since 2002
- Principal investigator of NASA funded International MODIS/AIRS
Processing Package (IMAPP) project – since 1999
- Principal investigator of NOAA JPSS Community Satellite
Processing Package (CSPP) – since 2011
- Principal investigator of NOAA GOES-R Algorithm Working Group
program
- Technical Advisor, Tempo Quest, Inc. – September 2014 to
February 2015
- Director, Board of Directors, GeoMetWatch, USA – January
2012 to June 2014
- Chief Information Officer, GeoMetWatch, USA – April 2012
to June 2014
- Committee member of Space Studies Board Committee on Earth
Studies, The National Academies – 2008-2011.
- Council member of the Space Science and Engineering Center
(SSEC) – 2003-2012
- Program manager and lead scientist of algorithm development for NOAA GOES-R risk
Reduction project – 2003-2008
- Member of International Radiation Commission (IRC) for the 2005
to 2008 term
- Committee member of Physical Sciences/Engineering Area Review
Committee (ARC), University of Wisconsin-Madison for 2007 to 1010 term.
- Chair and editor of the SPIE Atmospheric and Environmental
Remote Sensing Data Processing and Utilization annual conference and proceedings
– 2003-2010
- General chair of Hyperspectral Imaging and Sounding of the
Environment topical conference of Optical Society of America: 2004-2008
- Program Chair and organizing committee member of 2003 Optical
Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere (ORS) topical meeting of Optical Society of
America
- Co-chair of International TOVS Working Group (ITWG) -
2006-2013
- Financial Director of International TOVS Working Group (ITWG)
– since 2013
- President of Weather Or Knot, a scientific remote sensing
consulting Wisconsin partnership company – since 1997
- President and principal scientist of Hyper Sensing, LLC, a
federal small business scientific consulting limited liability company – since
2002
- Science member and consultant for Northrop Grumman Space
Technology’s NPOESS project – 2001-2008
- Technical Advisory Committee member of NOAA GOES-R Risk
reduction project – 2006-2008
- Advisor of Technical Advisory Committee of NOAA GOES-R Algorithm
Working Group – 2009
- Committee member, Distinguished Prefix Review Committee,
University of Wisconsin-Madison – Since 2010.
- Guest Research Scientist, Institute of Remote sensing
Applications, Chinese Academy of Sciences – Since August 2010.
Current Projects:
- NOAA - CIMSS Research Activities in Support of the
GOES-R Algorithm Working Group (AWG) Program
- NASA - International MODIS and AIRS Processing Package (IMAPP)
- NOAA - The Development of a Community Satellite Processing Package
(CSPP) in support of NPP/JPSS Program
- NOAA - GRAFIIR: GOES-R Analysis Facility for Instrument Impacts on Requirements
- NOAA - JAFIIR: JPSS Analysis Facility for Instrument Impacts on Requirements including conducting OSSE to define JPSS CrIS sensor specifications
- NOAA - Network of Direct Broadcast Antenna Systems to Provide Real-Time Infrared and Microwave Sounder Data to NOAA for Numerical Weather Prediction
- Internal Innovation - ABI/AHI 4D VAR Wind Retrieval
- International Sponsors - International TOVS Study Conference (ITSC) conference organization
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