Joe W Waters
Dr. Joe Waters, the Microwave Limb Sounder Principal Investigator, is a scientist who specializes in the development and implementation of microwave experiments to provide important new information about Earth's atmosphere. He has over 145 refereed publications in his career, with more than 4000 citations. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL , which he joined in 1973 to lead JPL's activities in microwave atmospheric science...
Mike Tanner
Mike Tanner is the Aura Program Executive from the Office of Earth Science at NASA Headquarters. Mike is directly responsible for providing overall guidance, direction and oversight for the development of the Aura project. As Program Executive, Mike provides policy and programmatic guidance, responds to inquiries and serves as the point of contact for domestic and international partnering organizations. Serves as a strategic mission architect for the Enterprise working with the science,...
Dr Pieternel Levelt
Pieternel Levelt is Principle Investigator of the OMI-instrument. Since 1993 she is a research scientist in the section Atmospheric Composition at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMI . There she worked on chemical data-assimilation of ozone in two-dimensional and three-dimensional chemistry transport models. She was also member of the algorithm and validation subgroups of European satellite instruments GOME and Sciamachy. She was strongly involved in the validation program of...
PK Bhartia
Dr. Pawan K. PK Bhartia is the head of the Atmospheric Chemistry Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He is also the Project Scientist of the Total Ozone Monitoring TOMS and the US Science Team Leader of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument OMI . Dr. Bhartia is an internationally known expert in ultraviolet remote sensing of the Earth's atmosphere. He has written over 75 scientific papers in this area and has been recognized by NASA and international agencies for his contributions to this...
Lucien Froidevaux
Dr. Lucien Froidevaux has been involved with satellite atmospheric remote sensing retrievals and data analysis since 1983, when he started working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, managed by Caltech Pasadena, CA . His early research and doctoral thesis work centered on photochemical models and the interpretation of measurements of atmospheric chemical species. He performed analyses of space shuttle-based observations by the Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy ATMOS experiment and later...
Mark Schoeberl
Dr. Mark Schoeberl, the Aura Project Scientist, is an atmospheric scientist who specializes in stratospheric processes including wave dynamics, ozone depletion and trace gas transport. He has over 155 refereed publications and over 4200 citations in atmospheric science journals. Since the early 1980's he has worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and is currently the Chief Scientist for the Earth Sciences Directorate and the Aura Project Scientist. Dr. Schoeberl is past President of the...
John Loiacono
John Loiacono has been the Deputy Project Manager for the Aura mission since the spring 2000. Prior to this, he was the Aura Instrument Systems Manager from 1998 to summer 2001, and the Aura OMI instrument manager from spring 1999 to summer 2000. John started at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center GSFC in 1984 as an electronic engineer. He moved into the GSFC management organization, called the Flight Projects and Program Management Directorate, in 1998 when he joined the Aura team. As an...
Phil DeCola
Dr. DeCola is Program Scientist for the Atmospheric Composition Focus Area in the NASA Earth Science Enterprise ESE and is Program Scientist for the Aura Mission. His scientific training and research is in the areas of molecular spectroscopy and condensed phase energy transfer. He has authored a number of publications in the area of nonlinear spectroscopy and its application to solid-state energy transfer. His involvement in Earth Science began through application of his scientific expertise to...