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 and instrument development for studying Earth's upper atmosphere. He currently leads groups in both science and engineering divisions at JPL.
Dr. Waters was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1985 for 'outstanding scientific achievements in the development and application of microwave and submillimeter remote sensing technology. These contributions have led to significant advances in our capability to measure the state of the Earth's atmosphere,' and again in 1993 for 'outstanding scientific achievements in advancing knowledge of Earth's atmosphere through development of the NASA Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite Microwave Limb Sounder and analysis of its flight data.' In 2001 Science Watch stated that he was the 16th most-cited author in geoscience for the decade 1991-2001.
Waters received the B.S./M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967 and 1971, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis, under Prof. D.H. Staelin who pioneered microwave remote sensing, was on remote sensing of the stratosphere and mesosphere - from which his career evolved. While on the research staff at MIT he was responsible for validation of data from the first microwave temperature sounder in orbit. Dr. Waters grew up on a farm in Tennessee. His non-professional activities include hiking, backpacking, biking, guitar, gardening, travel, history and historical wooden ship models. He is married with two stepsons.
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