Participant Biographies
ESSE 21 Annual Meeting University of Alaska Fairbanks, August 3-7, 2005
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Jimmy Adegoke
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas
City (UMKC), Department of Geosciences.
Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Earth
System Science and the
Urban
Environment in Undergraduate Curricula.
adegokej@umuc.edu
I am a climate scientist whose research focuses on the
role of the land surface as the driver of weather and climate. Following dissertation work at the
Pennsylvania State University involving the use of climate diagnostic and satellite
remote sensing tools to investigate the interactions and feedbacks between
synoptic scale atmospheric and land surface processes in the U. S. Midwest, I
focused my postdoctoral work on improving the representation of land surface
heterogeneity in the Colorado State University Regional Atmospheric Modeling
System (RAMS). Two interconnected
issues engage my attention: the direct influence of surface representation in
regional atmospheric models using high resolution satellite products, and, the
feedbacks and interactions between the land surface and various physical
components that are triggered by the land surface representation in the models.
Since joining the faculty of
the University of Missouri-Kansas City in September 2002, I have continued to
work on related problems with greater emphasis on climate-societal issues,
especially cross-scale linkages and feedbacks between processes that impact
heat stress and air quality in changing urban areas. I teach graduate and undergraduate courses in
meteorology, satellite remote sensing, environmental science, and geographic
information systems (GIS).
Iım a member of several
professional societies including the American Geophysical Union (AGU),
Association of American Geographers (AAG), American Meteorological Society
(AMS), and the African Association for Remote Sensing of the Environment
(AARSE). I serve on the Council of
AARSE and represent the United States as the Alternate Member for Meteorology
and Atmospheric Physics on the
U. S. Commission for
Geophysics, Pan American Institute for Geography and History (PAIGH).
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Susan Alexander
Associate
Professor, California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB), Division of
Science and
Environmental
Policy. Member of the ESSE 21
Steering Committee.
susan_alexander@csumb.edu
I have been a member of the faculty since 1996, and have
been active in the design and development of the undergraduate Earth Systems
Science and Policy (ESSP) program.
I teach several interdisciplinary courses in the areas of ecology,
ecosystem services, and ecosystem modeling.
I am the principal investigator on a cooperative research
agreement between NASA Ames Research Center and ESSP in the area of Earth
systems science. In its ninth
year, the objective of the cooperative agreement is to conduct applied
research, to train students in the technological tools and methods in which
NASA specializes, to pursue technology development, and to develop educational
products with Earth system science applications. Current research emphases of the participants include
applications to agriculture, human health and disease, disaster mitigation,
wildlife management, and carbon sequestration.
I am also a co-investigator on a multi-university research
project that links science, management, and policy in a visualization-based
integration of landscape, climate, vegetation, biota, and humanity in the
Central Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Education products in development include a set of undergraduate
learning modules for the classroom, an interactive DVD for visitor center
kiosks, and an auditorium film.
I have been involved in the
ESSE program for many years, initially as a graduate teaching assistant at
Stanford University in the ESSE I program, and then as a principal investigator
of the CSUMB ESSE II grant.
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David Anastasio
Associate
Professor, Lehigh University, Department of Earth and Environmental
Sciences.
Principal
Participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Where is the Missing Carbon?
Multidisciplinary
Web-based
Inquiry Modules for Earth System Science Instruction.
dja2@lehigh.edu
I am a geologist with
Baccalaureate degrees in biology and geology from Franklin & Marshall
College, Lancaster, PA and Master's and Doctoral degrees from Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, MD. I am
presently conducting research with students on high resolution deformation
rates in the Spanish Pyrenees, 100 million year old climate cycles in the
Sierra Madre Oriental Mexico, active faults and seismic hazard in southwest
Montana near Yellowstone Park, and carbon cycling and water quality responses
to land use change in the Lehigh Valley watershed, PA.
I teach, from an Earth System
Science perspective, Introduction to Planet Earth to ~150 students annually for
natural science distribution and major requirement, plus undergraduate courses
in structural
geology, tectonics, field
geology, and North American geology, and graduate courses in mountain building
and rock deformation. When not
traveling, I live in eastern Pennsylvania with my great teenaged
girls, Tyler and Morgan,
Bernese Mountain dog Nelson and my gardens.
Look for my recent and
upcoming papers in American Journal of Science, Geology,
Journal of
Structural Geology, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, Geofluids,
Tectonics, and Journal of
Geologic Education. See http://www.lehigh.edu/~dja2/dja2.html for
contact or further information.
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Associate Faculty, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg
School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology.
Science Communications
Studies, a nonprofit research and education organization in Columbia, Maryland,
was formed for cross-disciplinary communication of science. Its focus areas are
1.environmental issues in public health,
2.mathematical modeling, especially the dynamics and
control of infectious diseases linking information from multiple disciplines,
and
3.advances in mathematics, science, and technology
education.
I earned a B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard
University/Radcliffe College, a Diploma in mathematical statistics from
Cambridge University, an M.Sc. in information technology management from Johns Hopkins
University, and a Ph.D. in mathematical biology from Princeton University.
Recent research activities
have included the following:
· Co-PI, Epidemiological Modeling and Prediction, U. S.
Naval Research Laboratory;
· Co-PI, Diagnostics and Prediction of Climate
Variability and Human Health Impacts in the Tropical Americas, Collaborative
Research Network of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research
(IAI);
· Member, Technical Advisory Group, The Threat of Dengue
Fever: Assessment of Impacts and Adaptation to Climate Change in Human Health
in the Caribbean (University of the West Indies, Jamaica).
My current work with the U. S. Naval Research Laboratory
focuses on the development of modeling tools for epidemic prediction and
control. Current work with the Pan
American Health Organization (PAHO) addresses planning for the public health
use of space technology and geographic information systems to improve food and
nutrition security in Central America.
I manage a Climate and Health Information Exchange (chiex.net) for a
collaborative research network on climate variability and human health in the
tropical Americas. I am a
technical advisor for a Caribbean climate and dengue project based at the University
of the West Indies in Jamaica and the Caribbean Epidemiology Centre in
Trinidad.
I was the lead editor on a graduate-level textbook
entitled Ecosystem Change and Public Health: A Global Perspective that was published in 2001 and that was deemed an
outstanding text by the NASA Earth Science Enterpriseıs Education Product Peer
Review. It has also received
excellent reviews in the Journal of the American Medical Association and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
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Assistant Professor, Austin College, Department of
Physics. Principal Participant on
ESSE 21 project entitled Earth System Science
Education in a Liberal Arts Environment: Unique Undergraduate Experiences and
Enhanced Public Awareness.
dbaker@austincollege.edu
I conduct research on
land-atmosphere interaction, soil moisture and thunderstorm development,
extreme precipitation events, and atmospheric dynamics of Venus and
Jupiter. I have worked as a
research scientist at NASAıs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD, and
currently serve as manager of the Austin College Weather Station. I have strong interests in innovative,
student-centered teaching practices that utilize project-based and
inquiry-based learning approaches.
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Paul A. Berkman
Associate
Research Professor, University of California Santa Barbara, Bren School of
Environmental Science and Management.
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of EvREsearch LTD.
berkman@bren.ucsb.edu, paul@evresearch.com
As a Research Professor I
integrate science, policy, and information technology. I am the author of the book entitled Science
Into Policy: Global Lessons From Antarctica (Academic Press, 2002) that evolved from the interdisciplinary course
that I began teaching in 1982 as a Visiting Professor at the University of
California, Los Angeles, at the age of 24. I have also authored nearly 60 publications in technical
journals and served as the principal investigator/project manager on more than
twenty government grants. I
finished my M.S. and Ph.D. in 1986 and 1988 respectively, at the Graduate
School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island where I was a National
Science Foundation graduate fellow.
My international background
carried me to all seven continents by the age of thirty with interdisciplinary
collaborations around the world that are ongoing. I wintered-over and have lead diverse international
expeditions to Antarctica during the last three decades. I spent a year in Japan as a fellow of
the Ministry of Science, Culture, and Education and was an Erskine Fellow at
the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
In the United States, I was a
Byrd Fellow at the Byrd Polar Research Center and a faculty fellow at the
Mershon Center for International Security and Public Policy at Ohio State
University. Among my other
teaching and academic honors, I was awarded a NASA faculty fellowship at the
California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Alec Bodzin
Associate Professor of Science Education, in Lehigh
University's Technology-based Teacher
Education program. Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Where is
the Missing Carbon?
Multidisciplinary Web-based Inquiry Modules for
Earth System Science Instruction.
amb4@lehigh.edu
I teach elementary and
secondary science methods and environmental education courses. I am also
Project Director of LEO EnviroSci Inquiry, an interdisciplinary Web-enhanced
K-12 environmental science education outreach initiative.
My research interests include
design of Web-based inquiry learning environments, design and implementation of
inquiry-based science curricula, visual instruction technologies, motivation
and learning, pre-service teacher education, teacher professional development,
and the use of telecommunications in science education. I have developed constructivist
Web-based learning instructional systems, including projects involving
inquiry-based explorations of environmental issues (http://www.lehigh.edu/~amb4). I was Primary Investigator for
the NSF Instructional Materials Development grant, Exploring Life, where I was
involved in the design, development, and testing of innovative Web-based curricular
materials.
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Richard Boone
Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, and the Department of Biology and Wildlifeffrdb@uaf.edu I received early training in ecology as a student and later as a research assistant at The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. I received an A.B. in biology from Oberlin College, an M.S. in forest ecology from Oregon State University, and a Ph.D. in forest soils from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My research interests are in nitrogen cycling, soil respiration, soil organic matter dynamics, science education, fire ecology, and ecosystem-level consequences of land-use change. Current research addresses the relative uptake of inorganic nitrogen and amino acids by boreal tree species, the response of soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics to prescribed fire in the boreal forest, and the use of molecular tools to assess the potential for soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics. I have served as Secretary of the Soil Ecology Section of the Ecological Society of America and as an Alaska Representative to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. I am currently President of the Alaska Chapter of the American Society of Microbiology. I have served on numerous federal advisory panels including NSF Ecosystems Studies, NSF Geosciences, NASA Carbon Program, NSF Collaborative Research at Undergraduate Institutions, and USDA Forest/Range/Crop/Aquatic Ecosystems. I was appointed as an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow in 2001 and joined the editorial board of the Journal of Soil Biology & Biochemistry in 2003.
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george.carruthers@nrl.navy.mil
I am a space scientist at NRL
where I have worked since receiving my Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in
1964. My research has been in
far-ultraviolet astronomy and ultraviolet measurements of Earth's upper atmosphere. I have been Principal Investigator or
Co-Investigator for experiments flown in many space flight missions, sponsored
by NASA and by DoD. These include
the first detection of molecular hydrogen in interstellar space (1970 sounding
rocket), the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph on the Apollo 16 mission in
1972, and several space shuttle missions, including the Far Ultraviolet Cameras
experiment flown on the DoD STS-39 mission in 1992.
Most recently, I was PI for
the Global Imaging Monitor of the Ionosphere (GIMI) on the DoD's Advanced
Research and Global Observation Satellite (ARGOS), launched in 1999. I have also been active in education
and public outreach activities, including teaching part-time at Howard
University's Department of Physics and Astronomy, as well as precollege-school
and general public EPO activities.
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Clark Atlanta University
bcheewah@cau.edu
I began working in the Earth
System Science program at Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia in
1998. I have over 24 years of
teaching experience. I have worked
not only in special education and brought inclusive learning into the
mainstream classroom, but have conducted extensive workshops in curriculum
development for elementary school teachers and principals in the Republic of
Trinidad and Tobago. As a result I
bring a unique Caribbean perspective to education and learning.
I have expanded my interests
to include researching issues on recruiting and retaining minority students in
science and mathematics programs, and geoscience career development among
minority students. I have worked
with transportation agencies to ensure participation among minority students in
internship programs in this field, and have been invited to sit on the
Transportation Research Boardıs subcommittee on workforce development for the
21st century.
I worked collaboratively with women faculty members to
host a conference and conduct a research study on the status of women in
science and mathematics faculty among Historically Black Colleges and
Universities. I collaborated on
the preparation of a paper for publication entitled ³Women Science Faculty at
HBCUıs: A Profile and Lessons Learned² (2005) and am preparing for publication
the results of a research study for the Federal Highway Administrationıs
Transportation Education Outreach Project entitled ³Developing a Workforce for
the 21st Century–Starting Early² (August, 2005).
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Program Director, National Science Foundation, Research
in Disabilities Education Program
tconway@nsf.gov
I received my B.S. degree in
chemistry from Florida State University and subsequently worked in the
industrial sector as a polymer engineer at Michelin Americas Research and
Development Corporation until 1986 when I enrolled at the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana-Champaign.
There I received
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
theoretical and applied mechanics awarded by the College of Engineering.
In addition to my research
administration and teaching activities, I was Chair of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineersı (ASME)
Design and Rehabilitation Technical Committee (1996-1999) and Program Chair
(2000) for the Bioengineering Division (BED). I have been an elected member (1996-2004) of the Committee
on Opportunities in Science (COOS) for underrepresented minorities and Chair of
the Mentor Awards Selection Committee (1999-2004) in the Education and Human
Resources (EHR) Directorate of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS).
I was the symposium organizer
for ³Design for Life: Technologies for Rehabilitation², part of the AAAS
International Conference held in Denver, CO in February 2003. In addition to my University of Central
Florida faculty and NSF Program Director duties, I was appointed Chair of the
AAAS Education and Human Resources Committee on Opportunities in Science
(2003-2005) by the AAAS Board of Directors. As Chair I direct the committee in its diverse
responsibilities for advising AAAS-EHR on initiatives and projects related to
enhancing the status and accelerating the advancement of minorities, women, and
disabled persons in science and engineering professions.
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Director, California State Polytechnic University
(Pomona), Center for GIS Research
macope@csupomona.edu
My research interests include
image classification and participatory/qualitative decision support systems in
GIS. I graduated from Clark
University in 2001 with an MA in GIS and International Development. I conducted research on decision
support for water resources management at the Technion (Israel) Institute of
Technology on a Fulbright Scholarship, 2001-2. Most recently I completed my certification in
Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA) from Egerton University, Njoro, Kenya. Through CEEMaST, Dr. Jodye
Selco and I are very pleased to be involved with ESSE21, by working with Dr.
Bob Ford at
Loma Linda University on
GIS/RS course development and lab instruction.
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Project Director and Curriculum Developer, TERC,
Cambridge, MA
TERC is a 40-year old company
involved in educational research and curriculum development for science and
mathematics. I am considered a
remote employee who works from my home in Mesa, Arizona.
I studied geology at Arizona
State University and taught high school Earth science and chemistry.
Subsequently, I developed curriculum materials and taught professional
development workshops on digital image analysis for the University of Arizona
and for the Center for Image Processing in Education. At TERC recently, I
served as curriculum director for the Exploring Earth project, which is a
highly interactive website designed to accompany the widely used high school
Earth science textbook published by McDougall Littell.
Currently I am Co-PI on an
Information Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) project
entitled Eyes in the Sky. This project prepares teachers to use
GIS, GPS, and image analysis as tools with their students to facilitate
community-based authentic research projects. I also serve as
project director for DLESE Data Services and for the Earth Exploration Toolbook. Both of these efforts focus on increasing the use of data in educational settings.
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daviesc@umkc.edu
I am a biogeographer whose
research interests include understanding climate change using lake sediments
and vegetation records in order to reconstruct past environments. My research includes examining
Pleistocene and Holocene climate fluctuations, arid land processes, and changes
in regional hydrology in Jordan. I
am also interested in human/landscape relationships from the past and present
with research on climate and human modification of the highlands of Yemen, and
wetland dynamics and human modification of the Mississippi floodplain. I teach Introductory Environmental
Science and upper division and graduate courses in Quaternary environments and
field methods.
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Project Manager, Laboratory for Advanced Information
Technology and Standards (LAITS),
George Mason University
mdeng@gmu.edu
I received my B.S. degree in
engineering mechanics from Huazhong University of Sciences and Technologies
(China) in 1990 and my M.S. degree in computer Science from University of
Missouri-Columbia. I am currently
the manager of a REASoN NEHEA project funded by NASA. During the
past eight years, I have
devoted myself to extensive research work in the interdisciplinary fields of
computer science, computational science, civil engineering, economics, remote
sensing, and Earth science.
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Professor and Director, Laboratory for Advanced
Information Technology and Standards (LAITS),
George Mason University
ldi@gmu.edu
I have been teaching and
conducting research Earth system science and related information
technologies for more than 20
years. I am the PI on the
NASA-funded REASoN project, NASA EOS Higher-Education Alliance (NEHEA).
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rdodge@westga.edu
I have been involved in Earth
system science education since 1997, when I began the GLOBE Teacher Training
Partnership at the University of Texas at El Paso. In 2000, I started the GLOBE Partnership at the University
of West Georgia, which concentrates on undergraduate K-12 teacher
preparation. We have trained more
than 200 pre-service teachers using an Earth system science content class and
accompanying GLOBE protocol-based science laboratory.
I also teach several
interdisciplinary classes at the undergraduate level, including "What do
You Really
Know About Environmental
Change", "Science Foundations", and "Frontiers in Space
Science". My specialty is
remote sensing, and I also teach geospatial technology classes for K-16
educators including ³GIS for Teachers², ³Remote Sensing for Teachers², and
³Image Processing for Teachers².
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
hajo.eicken@gi.alaska.edu
My main research interests
are in the field of sea-ice geophysics.
Currently, I am involved in several projects which make use of the ice
cover near Barrow, Alaska, as a natural lab for process studies of ice growth
and evolution. One of these
studies (jointly with Drs. Lew Shapiro,
Dave Cole of the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab in Hanover,
NH, Joe Trodahl of Wellington
University in New Zealand and several students) examines the role of macro- and
micropores in heat and mass transfer through sea ice. Of particular interest in this context is the role of
macroscopic ice properties in determining the large-scale surface energy
balance of the ice pack during spring and summer.
In another Barrow-based
project, we are studying the microphysics of liquid inclusions in sea ice under
low temperatures (-10 to -25C) in the GI cold lab using optical microscopy and
magnetic resonance imaging in the lab of Prof. H. O. Poertner at the Alfred
Wegener Institute in Germany. In collaboration
with microbiologists from the University of Washington (Dr. Jody Deming and her
group at the School of Oceanography, Christopher Krembs at the Applied Physics
Lab), we are interested in learning more about constraints on microbial
activities at low temperatures, including how this may apply to life in
extraterrestrial environments.
We are also supported to study the mass- and energy-balance of coastal sea-ice
covers in the Alaskan Arctic near Barrow in a collaborative effort between our
group at UAF (including grad student Andy Mahoney), researchers from the Cold
Regions Science and Engineering Laboratory, and the Department of Atmospheric
Sciences at the University of Washington.
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few@rice.edu
I joined the Rice faculty in
1970. My research interest is
atmospheric physics with a special emphasis on atmospheric electricity. My students and I have done important
work on the generation and nature of thunder, the energetics of lightning, the
geometry of lightning channels inside thunderstorms, in situ measurements of
electric fields in and around thunderstorms, and the modeling of thunderstorm
and global electric fields. My
recent work has involved atmospheric electricity measurements and research from
a suite of instruments at the South Pole that monitored the total global
thunderstorm activity, a parameter strongly influenced by global warming.
I am active at the national
level in global change education; I am an author-participant in the Global
Change Instruction Program (NSF and UCAR/NCAR), and a principal investigator in
the Earth System Science Education Program (NASA and USRA). In 1993 I received the EDUCOM Award for
best curriculum innovation involving computers in the natural sciences. I received the Mitchell Prize in 1979
for my paper ³Social, Environmental, and Economic Implications of Widespread
Conversion to Biomass-based Fuels.²
Most of my Ph.D. graduates have positions at national laboratories such
as NASAıs Johnson Space Flight Center, NASAıs Marshall Space Flight Center, the
National Center for Atmospheric
Research, the National Severe
Storms Laboratory, and MITıs Lincoln Laboratory.
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Professor, Loma Linda University, Departments of Social
Work and Natural Sciences.
Principal
Participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Doing Science
Within the Context of Major Global and Societal
Issues
of Poverty, Health, and Disease, Environmental Degradation and Social
Inequality.
rford@univ.llu.edu
Between 1994 and 1999 I was
the Kim T. Adamson Chair in International Studies at Westminster College of
Salt Lake City. My role was to
internationalize the curriculum and develop global consciousness among students
and faculty and to serve as a catalyst and resource to all programs and
colleges. I was particularly
involved in the environmental studies and honors program.
From 1993-1999 I was an
active member of the ESSE (Earth
System Science Education) network, first at Utah State University (College of
Natural Resources) and then at Westminster College. During most of that time I helped manage a grant from
NASA/USRA which helped design and implement integrated web-based Earth system
science (ESS) courses and learning materials--see ESSC 400-401 Earth Systems
and Global Change - see also the project for John Wiley & Sons Publishers,
entitled GeoSystems Today: An Interactive Casebook.
In August 2003 I became a
Professor of International Sustainable Development and Social Policy in the
Department of Social Work and Social Ecology, and Department of Earth and
Biological Sciences, School of Science and Technology, Loma Linda
University. Formerly (August 1999
- July 2003) I was a Senior Natural Resources Planner and Policy Advisor for
the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Land Resource Management
Team (LRMT). During my tenure with
USAID I worked on special initiatives such as climate adaptability, land
degradation in dry-lands, ICT (Information and Communications Technology)
focusing on geospatial information systems (GIS/RS), sustainable tree-crops,
agricultural resource management, and policy analysis for key environmental
conventions, e.g., UNCCD and UNFCCC. Between 2001and2003, I helped organize and manage
three special initiatives, that are part of an IWG (Interagency Working Group),
which were focused on the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held
in Johannesburg, South Africa, August 14 - September 7, 2002.
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University Distinguished Professor, Michigan State
University, Department of Entomology.
gages@msu.edu
Although my primary
appointment is in the Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources, I am an adjunct professor in zoology. I am Associate Director of the Center
for Global Change and Earth Observations and direct the Computational Ecology and
Visualization Laboratory at MSU.
The themes of the Laboratory include: role of biodiversity in
agriculture; dynamics of regional crop productivity and climate; flow of
organisms at multiple scales; dynamics of land use and land cover; and
monitoring systems to assess ecosystem characteristics. I recently conducted a research project
to collect, analyze, and interpret environmental acoustics from Sequoia
National Park. I teach two
courses,
Biological Information
Systems and Earth System Science (Honors).
I am an investigator
(PI/Co-PI) on several projects including: the long-term ecological research
program in row-crop agriculture (National Science Foundation); assessment of
the ecological integrity of the Muskegon River watershed (Great Lakes Fishery
Trust); development of a land use and land cover change enterprise (MSU
Foundation); managing regional gypsy moth spread (USFS); and effects of
human-induced land
fragmentation on Michigan industries (Kellogg and Mott Foundations). Members of my Computational Ecology and
Visualization Laboratory and I are working with the USDA to use geospatial
technologies to enhance pest survey systems.
I am a collaborator with San
Diego Supercomputer Center scientists in the area of acoustic analysis,
regional ecosystem simulation modeling, and ecological synthesis. In 2000 I was awarded the Senior
Hayward Fellowship from Landcare Research in New Zealand where I collaborated
with New Zealand scientists on issues of ecological scale and developed
concepts of monitoring environmental acoustics.
I recently returned from
Australia where I was awarded a Visiting Scientist Scholarship from the
Department of Primary Industries in Victoria.
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Research Professional, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
Geophysical Institute, Remote Sensing Support
rgens@asf.alaska.edu
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Director, Hawaii Natural Heritage Program (HINHP), Center
for Conservation Research and Training,
University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Principal Participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled
Teaching Global Environmental Change from the
Mountain to Ocean: The Àhupuaıa Way.
bgibson@hawaii.edu
HINHP compiles and maintains detailed, comprehensive
information on Hawaii's biological resources. Our mission is to synthesize,
interpret, and distribute this information to a wide set of appropriate users
with the intent of making a positive impact on biodiversity protection. The
HINHP database is the state's largest computerized inventory of endangered,
threatened, and rare plants, animals, and ecosystems, extracted from all
available sources. It includes detailed information on more than 1,000 native
species and ecosystem types in nearly 16,000 locations across the state.
Up-to-date information on the historical and current location
and status of rare and endangered species is of critical importance to
researchers, landowners, managers, and planners, and the HINHP database is an
important tool for keeping abreast of rapid environmental changes in
Hawaii. HINHPprovides the
information needed by these individuals and organizations in many ways:
· Location maps and data for all endangered and
candidate species in Hawaii--even rare species and ecosystems not yet given
state or federal status.
· Over 1,000 species and ecosystem types are tracked,
including all threatened and endangered taxa. Now these data are available on
USGS 1:24,000 quadrangles or as GIS layers (computer-generated
maps).
Before becoming Director of HINHP, I was a faculty member in the Geography and Environmental Studies Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. I am also an Assistant Researcher within the Center of Conservation Research and Training at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and am active in several projects involving GIS/remote sensing methodologies. My expertise/research interests include: studying Earth system interactions using remote sensing and GIS technologies, Earth system science education, and regional climatology. My research sites include Hawaii and the Pacific Basin. I earned both a B.S. in geosciences and an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in geography and geology from the University of Oklahoma.
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President, Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC),
Department of Energy Management
rglenn@co.north-slope.ak.us
The Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC) is a not-for-profit organization based in Barrow, Alaska that is dedicated to the encouragement of research and educational activities pertaining to Alaskaıs North Slope and the adjacent portions of the Arctic Ocean. The BASC was organized in 1995 as a way for three local organizations and other interested persons to work together in support of arctic science.
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President, Science Education Solutions [A small
research and development
company invested in promoting science and technology
literacy.]
hall@scieds.com
I am a geophysicist, science
educator, former academic, and new small business owner. I have 10 years experience in teaching
science at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and preparing new and
experienced K-12 teachers to meet the challenges of teaching diverse groups in
diverse settings. My research has
focused on developing models for teaching with data and technology, creating
effective
scientist-teacher
partnerships, and understanding the development of spatial visualization
skills.
At the University of Arizona,
I managed two curriculum development projects, an NSF GK-12 program that supported 20 Fellows per year who
worked 15 hrs/week in scientist-teacher partnerships, and integration of
technology across the undergraduate curriculum through the Computer Laboratory
for
Undergraduate Education. I have been a leader in designing and
implementing two national education and outreach programs for NSF facilities
(IRIS and EarthScope) and in both cases served on the founding committees for
these efforts.
I have been involved in DLESE
since the first PAGE focus groups in 1999, served on the DLESE Collections
Committee from 2000-2002, and lead the effort to develop the 2004 Quality
Plan. Presently, I am Executive
Director of DLESE.
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Assistant Professor, Jackson State University,
Department of Physics, Atmospheric, and General Science.
Principal Participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled
Earth System Science Education at Jackson State
University.
ezat.heydari@jsums.edu
I am an active researcher and
an enthusiastic teacher. My
research is multidisciplinary involving field and laboratory studies of
sedimentary rocks. I combine sedimentological,
petrographical, and geochemical characteristics to unravel processes that have
shaped the Earthıs upper crust, atmosphere, and oceans.
I have made important
contributions to the understanding of depositional environments,
rock–water interactions, sedimentary geochemistry, hydrocarbon
exploration, and porosity evolution of Upper Jurassic carbonates of the U. S.
Gulf Coast. My most recent work
deals with the Permian–Triassic boundary strata to determine the cause of
this global catastrophe.
I have been active in
spreading Earth System Science education in Mississippi. In addition to my college teaching, I
provide courses for in-service teachers and K-12 students. I have also involved undergraduate and
high school students in my research projects.
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Dean of
the Graduate School, Professor of Geology at Michigan Technological University
jeh@mtu.edu
I recently returned to
Michigan Technological University (MTU) where I have been a professor in the
Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences since 1990. I have accepted an appointment as Dean
of the Graduate School, but will split my time between those responsibilities
and teaching until May 2006 when I will assume the Graduate Deanıs
responsibilities full time.
For the last two years I served
as a program director in the Directorate for Geosciences at the National
Science Foundation. I was
responsible for coordinating diversity and education programs within the
Directorate and managed an annual budget of $6 million.
I earned a Ph.D. in geology
from Pennsylvania State University and was an exploration geologist for Shell
Offshore Inc. before coming to MTU.
My research focuses on the evolution of sedimentary basins; specifically
thermal modeling, sediment transport, Permian-triassic stratigraphy,
paleogeography and techtonics, and petroleum geology. I have done extensive studies in America's southwest, leading
courses and conducting fieldwork in Utah.
With Associate Professors Gregg Bluth (GMES) and Anne Wysocki
(Humanities), I coauthored a multimedia lab manual entitled Geologic
Processes–Investigations In and Around Utah's National Parks and
Monuments.
I have been PI or Co-I on
$5.4 million in research support from funding organizations such as NSF and the
U.S. Department of Energy. I have
served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Sedimentary Research since 1998 and have
authored or coauthored approximately 30 journal articles, refereed proceedings
papers and book chapters, as well as about 75 other reports and publications.
I am a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and a National Association of Geology Teachers Distinguished Lecturer. My Ph.D. student, Buddy Wylie, and I were co-recipients of the 2002 A. I. Levorsen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Petroleum Geology from the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
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Research Associate, Morgan State University, Department
of Civil Engineering
Co-participant with Fred Wilson on the ESSE 21 project
entitled
Earth System and Global Change Science Program.
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Hussein Jirdeh
Director
of University Relations, Universities Space Research Association (USRA).
Serves
as Secretary of the ESSE Science Council.
hussein@hq.usra.edu
As the Director of University Relations, I am USRAıs
primary point of contact with member institution representatives. I am tasked with developing and
executing ways that USRA can expand and enhance the participation of
universities in aerospace research.
This includes space science and technology, aeronautics, Earth science
from the perspective of space, and the space laboratory science and engineering
disciplines, such as microgravity sciences and space life sciences.
I received my Ph.D. in
mechanical engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo. My research interest is in thermal systems
and space technologies. Before
joining USRA, I was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering.
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Higher Education Solutions Manager, Economic and Social
Research Institute (ESRI)
ajohnson@esri.com
I have a Bachelors Degree
from California State University in Fullerton and a Masters Degree from the
University of California Riverside in geology (carbonate
sedimentology/geochemistry). While teaching Earth sciences (geology,
oceanography, meteorology, astronomy), I became interested in geographic
information systems and attended an NSF ATE-funded GIS for the 21st
Century program for educators at Indiana State. After returning from ISU,
I created a GIS certificate program at San Bernardino Valley College.
Other colleges and universities became interested in the program, and I began
helping other institutions set up similar programs.
Interest in the use of GIS across the
campus increased so much that eight years ago I was asked to come to work for
ESRI. At ESRI I help
colleges and universities to develop GIS courses and programs, I design and
teach GIS workshops for college and university instructors, and I speak in
support of GIS to groups across the United States and around the world. I
am currently a Co-PI on the NSF Grant GIS Tech which is developing 2 + 2 + curriculum for GIS
applications for the workforce. I am very interested in GIS as it applies
to Earth science and have been the instructor the last two years for the GSA
short course on GIS and Earth science applications.
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Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison,
Atmospherics and Oceanic Sciences
Director, USRA, Earth System Science Education for the
21st Century (ESSE 21)
donj@ssec.wisc.edu
In a career that has spanned
several decades, I have held numerous positions that are representative of my
long involvement in Earth system science.
· Special Project Scientist, NOAA National Centers for
Environmental Prediction (NCEP), 2002-
· Vice President for Earth Sciences – Universities
Space Research Association, 2000-2002
· Director of the UW Cooperative Institute for
Meteorological Satellite Studies, 1997-1999
· Director of the NASA/USRA Cooperative University Based
Earth System Science Education (ESSE) Program 1990-2000
· Director of the Division of Earth Sciences,
Universities Space Research Association, 1994-
· Emeritus Professor, 1994-
· President of the American Meteorological Society, 1992
· Chief Editor of the American Meteorological Society
Monographs, 1990-1998
· Associate Director of Space Science & Engineering
Center, University of Wisconsin, 1977-1999
· Chief Editor of Monthly Weather Review, 1978-1980.
· Chairman, Department of Meteorology, University of
Wisconsin, 1973-1976.
· Professor, University of Wisconsin, 1970-1994.
· Visiting Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State
University, 1968-1969.
· Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, 1966-70.
· Visiting Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric
Research, June-August 1965 and 1966.
· Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin,
1964-1966.
· USAF Weather Officer, 1952-1959.
I am a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of
Science. My research interests
include theory, analysis and modeling of atmospheric circulation.
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Department of Marine
Science
ffjjk@uaf.edu
My 40+ years of professional
experience within a university environment have been devoted to research in the
polar regions and in research administration. My research interests, including teaching, are in the fields
of geophysics and geochemistry with emphasis on micrometeorology and trace gas
processes. I am currently involved
in teaching and research in the area of applied oceanography, marine and
riverine acoustics, environmental radioactivity, and contaminants. I am also engaged in carbon dioxide
exchange process research in the Arctic Ocean.
I served as Director of the
National Science Foundationıs (NSF) Polar Ice Coring Office (PICO) from
1989-1996, which included a collaborative research program related to ice
engineering. I continue to publish
articles related to research on ice core drilling technology related to PICO
activities. For the past 20 years
I have also conducted a science program oriented toward encouraging Alaska
Native undergraduate students to pursue professional careers in science, math,
and engineering.
Current research includes an evaluation of advanced polymer devices for detection and identification of low concentrations of organic vapors.
· Factors leading to possibility of transport of
radionuclides from the former Amchitka Island Underground Nuclear Tests
· Location of offshore gravel deposit in the Chukchi Sea
· Trace metals in nearshore sediments of the Beaufort
Sea
· Mercury in fish in the Bering Sea, Yukon and Kuskokwim
rivers
· Carbon dioxide and methane exchange across arctic sea
ice
· NEWNET/ORION project in environmental radioactivity.
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Professor and Director of Scientific Research and Development, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.
Principal Participant on ESSE 21 project entitled Introduction
to Pollution Protection of the Earth System.
eleal@pupr.edu, edleal7@aol.com
I received my Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Missouri at
Columbia in 1989, an M.S. in physics from the University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) in 1986, an M.S. in applied physics from the National University
of Colombia in Santa Fe de Bogota in 1977, and a B.S. in applied physics from
the National University of Colombia in Santa Fe de Bogota in 1973.
I have been Director of the Scientific
Research and Development Department at the Polytechnic University of Puerto
Rico (PUPR) since August 1998. I
am also a professor in the graduate school where I teach Introduction to
Pollution, Control of the Earth Systems, Energy and Environment, Air Quality,
Broad Base Sustainable Development, Plasma Processing of Waste, and other
courses.
Before joining the faculty of
PUPR, I served in a variety of positions:
· Dean of Science and Technology at the Metropolitan
University of Puerto Rico from 1997 to 1998;
· Clinical Faculty of Radiation Oncology at the Medical
College of Virginia (MVC);
· Nuclear Power Operations Instructor, Director of the
Nuclear Quality Review Board, and Nuclear Quality Analyst at North Anna Nuclear
Power Station operated by Virginia Power from 1990 to 1996;
· Research Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of
the Fusion Plasma Laboratory at the University of Missouri in Columbia from
January 1987 to June 1990;
· Research Associate IV, Cryogenics at Los Alamos
National Laboratory in Los Alamos New Mexico from May 1986 to December 1986;
· Research Associate in Mirror Plasma, Non-neutral
Plasma at UCLA, Los Angeles, California from 1984 to 1986;
· Professor of Applied Physics at Metropolitan University,
Simon Bolivar University, and Central University of Venezuela at Caracas from
1977 to 1983, and
· Professor of Physics at Andes University and National
University of Colombia from 1971 to 1976.
I have published more than 35 scientific papers in international scientific
journals and presented more than one hundred papers at national and
international conferences.
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Senior Research Associate, Lesley University, Program
Evaluation and Research Group (PERG)
Serves as a member of the ESSE 21 Steering Committee.
slee@mail.lesley.edu
I have worked with PERG for
about 25 years and currently I'm both a Senior Research Associate and
Assistant Director. I have a broad
range of experience in educational evaluation, documentation, and curriculum
and resource development. I have
evaluated programs at multi-state, state, and district levels, as well as
within museums. Currently I am on
the evaluation team for NASAıs Office of Space Science, Education and Public
Outreach program, Boston Universityıs NSF-funded Math Science Partnership
project, and a Chemical Heritage Foundation on-line course. I'm on the ESSE 21 Steering Committee
and the advisory board for the Merck Institute for Science Education.
I have evaluated many
professional development programs for teachers of both science and mathematics
K-12. I have also evaluated and
studied a number of partnerships over the past ten years and have a particular
interest in this area. In the past
I also evaluated a number of projects funded in the arts for elementary age
children. I have co-authored three
books on mathematics staff development and one on science assessment.
My undergraduate degree is in
biology and my Masters degree is in Education. BUT, equally important, I am also a court mediator, gardener, and lapsed
sculptor. I have a background in
the arts, and I love to sing.
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Associate Research Professor, University of Southern
Maine, Department of Geosciences
slocke@usm.maine.edu
I received my Ph.D. in
geology from the University of Minnesota.
My dissertation research, which focused on the impacts of climate change
on lake and groundwater levels in north-central Minnesota, was funded by an NSF
Research Trainee grant in Paleorecords of Global Change. At the University of Minnesota I
co-taught a graduate seminar in Earth system history and introductory courses
in Earth system science. I was
principal investigator of an ESSE grant while serving on the faculty at Union
and Bates Colleges from 1996-1998.
Since 1999 I have been active
in diversity issues in the geosciences and have been the principal investigator
on NASA- and NSF-sponsored grants that promote the participation of students
with disabilities in Earth system science.
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Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Digital
Library for Earth System Education (DLESE)
rlow@ucar
Prior to assuming the DLESE
position, I was on the science faculty of the University of Maryland, European
Division (1984-1993) and served as Director of the University of Minnesotaıs
Science CentrUM, a university-wide consortium to connect science faculty with
K-12 educator science content needs.
I currently serve as
President of the National Association of Geoscience Teachers, Central Section,
and Vice-Chair of SciMathMN, a coalition of higher education, K-12, and
businesses dedicated to promoting excellence in math and science education in
Minnesota. Most recently, I served
as chair of Minnesotaıs
Earth Science Standards
Committee, responsible for drafting the new science standards passed by the
Minnesota legislature this past summer.
I have an abiding scientific interest in societal impact on and response
to climatic change–past and present–and a strong interest in
promoting widespread understanding of the inextricable interconnection of human
society and climate systems.
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Associate Professor, Clark Atlanta University,
Department of Physics. Principal
Participant on the ESSE 21
project entitled Module Development to Study Energy
Balance at the Air/Land Interface.
rmandock@cau.edu
I am a geophysicist. I received the Ph.D. in atmospheric
science from Georgia Tech, developing a 3-D imaging acoustic radar for my
dissertation. I have worked as a
geophysicist for Phillips Petroleum Company and Arco Oil and Gas Company. My current research interests include
atmospheric
acoustics, local water and
energy balances, radiative transfer in the atmosphere, and renewable
energy. I served in the U. S.
Marine Corps from 1972-1976.
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Prize-winning science writer and Acting Director of
English Composition at the University of Miami.
Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Music
of the Spheres: Coastal Earth System Science.
g.maranto@miami.edu
For the last eight years, I
have taught science writing to freshmen engineering students in the UM College
of Engineering. With Dr. Gene
Rankey, I have taught the ESSE 21-sponsored advanced science writing course,
English 306. This spring I also
developed and taught a graduate-level scientific writing course at UM's Miller
School of Medicine, and have led numerous workshops on scientific writing for
faculty and staff at the Miller School as well.
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Associate Director, New Mexico Space Grant Consortium
jmcshann@nmsu.edu
New Mexico Space Grant, part
of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, is a statewide
consortium of universities, community colleges, federal facilities, and
museums. Modeled after Land Grant,
Space Grant supports research, education, and public service programs in the
area of space.
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Ph.D. student, Clark Atlanta University. Co-participant with Randal Mandock on
the ESSE 21 project
entitled Module Development to Study Energy Balance
at the Air/Land Interface.
Ian_mills@hotmail.com
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Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks,
Department of Mining and Geological Engineering. Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Introduction
to Geoinformatics for Earth System Science Education.
ffdm1@uaf.edu
I teach an undergraduate
course in Remote Sensing for Engineering and participate in the ESSE 21 course
GEOS 378/GE 378. My research is in
the field of hydrology and water resources planning and management.
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Associate Professor and Chair-Elect, California State
University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB),
Division of Science & Environmental Policy. Principal Participant on the ESSE 21
project entitled
Systemic Systems: Infusing Systems Thinking
Throughout a 4-year Undergraduate Curriculum
in Earth Systems Science and Policy.
steve_moore@csumb.edu
As one of the campus's
founding faculty, I worked closely with Bill Head, Susan Alexander, Jim Rote,
and others to develop CSUMB's highly-interdisciplinary Earth Systems Science
and Policy bachelors degree program, which now serves as a national model for
innovative and effective Earth systems science instruction. I, myself, am interdisciplinary with a
bachelor of science degree in zoology (UC Davis) and a Ph.D. in bioengineering
(UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco).
I teach courses in zoology
and electronics and work with students to develop custom "gadgets and
gizmos" for ecological monitoring and research. Most of these devices, which include data logging
instruments, nest box cameras, wireless wildlife surveillance systems, and
remote-controlled underwater robotic vehicles, are used to study animal habits
and habitats as they relate to larger ecosystem conservation issues.
I am currently building a
web-controlled underwater robot that school children can pilot to explore and
discover the depths of a real kelp forest, co-authoring a book on underwater
vehicle design, and (with funding from USRA/NASA's ESSE 21 program) developing
an educational website to help faculty integrate systems theory and modeling
concepts into their science and policy courses and degree programs.
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Assistant Professor, Valparaiso University, Department
of Physics and Astronomy
gary.morris@valpo.edu
I have been an ESSE
participant since my graduate school days at Rice University where I worked
under Arthur Few in atmospheric electricity. I now pursue my own research program in urban pollution,
focusing on Houston's ozone problem.
This summer, I received funding from NASA and the State of Texas to continue
that research in Houston. Last
summer's ozonesonde observations in Houston revealed the impact of Alaskan
forest fires on Houston ozone levels for two days in July--believe it or not!
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Coordinator, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico,
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
apimenta@pupr.edu
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Adjunct Professor, University of Miami, Rosenstiel
School of Marine and Atmospheric Science,
Division of Marine Biology and Fisheries. Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project
entitled
Music of the Spheres: Coastal Earth System Science.
lpitman@rsmas.miami.edu
I am currently involved in several projects within the University of Miamiıs Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. I am the project evaluator for the ESSE 21-funded Music of the Spheres Project and serve as a member of the ESSE 21 Evaluation Working Group. In addition I am the Partnership Director for the Universityıs GLOBE Program and Project Director for the Atmospheric and Marine-Based Interdisciplinary Environmental Health Training (AMBIENT) project funded by a National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences grant in the Universityıs NIEHS Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Sciences Center.
In addition to my work with the University of Miami, I have been employed since 1987 as an Educational Specialist and Project Evaluator for the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, District Office, Division of Mathematics and Science.
I have an ED.D. in science education from the University of Georgia, an M.ED in curriculum and instruction from the University of New Orleans, and a B.A. in psychology from Louisiana State University. I have served the science education community in several ways:
· As a geoscience education reviewer for the National Science Foundation;
· As a health education scientific reviewer for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, both part of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland; and
· As an Earth system science education reviewer for NASA.
In 1995-96 I was an Assistant Professor in Florida
International Universityıs Department of Elementary Education. From 1996 to 1999, I was a teacher at
Miami Springs Senior High School, and from 1987 to 1992 at Miami Springs
Middle School.
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Associate Professor, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute.
Principal Participant on ESSE 21 project entitled
Introduction to Geoinformatics for Earth System
Science Education.
prakash@gi.alaska.edu
I am a geologist and a remote sensing
expert. For the last 10 years, the
primary focus of my research work has been the use of remote sensing and GIS
techniques to detect, map, monitor, quantify, model, and investigate surface
and underground coal fires in coal mining areas and to study the related
environmental problems using multisensor, multitemporal satellite and airborne
data.
Other research interests include:
·
High Temperature Event (HTE)
investigation, viz. volcano eruptions, forest fires, thermal springs, coal
fires, urban heating, etc. using remote sensing techniques.
·
Investigating new sensor
technologies for the thermal infrared region.
·
Geoenvironmental studies
using environmental indicators and impact assessment models in a variety of
environments.
·
Mutisensor (optical,
thermal, microwave) image and data fusion for geologic and geoenvironmental
applications.
·
Disseminating remote sensing
knowledge to remote communities by developing multimedia and distance learning
tools.
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Professor of Geography, California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo,
Department of Social Sciences
wpreston@calpoly.edu
I earned both a B.A. and M.A
degree in geography at California State University, Fresno with an emphasis in
physical geography. My Ph.D. is from
the University of Oregon with an emphasis in historical geography. My thesis addressed the historical
geography of the Tulare Lake Basin in California. I have taught in the Social Sciences department for 26 years
and serve as the Chair of the Earth sciences degree program. My research interests included
humans as an agency of environmental change in California, and the relationship
between native Californians and their faunal resources.
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Associate Professor, Jackson State University,
Department of Physics,
Atmospheric Sciences, and General Science. Co-participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled
Earth System Science Education at Jackson State
University.
rsreddy@ccaix.jsums.edu
I received a B.S in physics
from Osmania University (India), an M.S. of technology in applied geophysics
from Andhra University (India), and a Ph.D. in meteorology from Poona
University (India). I joined Jackson
State University as an assistant professor of meteorology. As an Associate Professor within the
Department of Physics and Atmospheric Sciences, I am responsible for teaching a
variety of undergraduate courses including Earth system science (global change)
and for conducting research.
I served as an academic and
worked for 15 years as a research associate in the Indian Institute of Tropical
Meteorology. Within the institute,
I was a project co-leader in developing a research project studying the upper
atmosphere in the Division of Physical Meteorology and Aerology. I participated in national weather
modification experiments for 10 years.
I was a post-doctoral research associate at the Atmospheric Environment
Service from November 1985 to February 1988 and worked with W. L. Godson in the
areas of tropical meteorology and solar-terrestrial relationships. Some of my investigations included an
understanding of Indian monsoon variability, solar-terrestrial relationships
identifying an 11-year solar cycle in the energetic of the equatorial lower stratosphere,
and long-range forecasts of heavy rainfall events in areas such as the Indian
east coast and Mississippi Gulf Coast.
I am also interested in
meteor shower and earthquake activity, solar proton events and geomagnetic
storms, solar flares, the global ozone budget dynamical aspects of the
Antarctic ozone hole, and empirical forecasting of potential global warming.
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Principal, Education Design, LLC
david@educationdesign.biz
I have been very active both
in developing, promoting, designing, and evaluating educational reform efforts
in the arts, technology, and science and mathematics. With my company, Education Design, LLC, I lead several
large-scale evaluation projects for schools, districts, and colleges. Current projects include program
evaluations for Earth System Science Education for the 21st Century (USRA),
Brighton High School Mathematics (GE Foundation/Boston Public Schools),
Literacy Connections (Boston Symphony Orchestra), and the Music in Education
National Consortium (FIPSE).
I am also Visiting Associate
Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, where I direct technology
learning programs and initiatives and have developed the Matrix of Embedded
Technology Applications (META) competency model.
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ESSE 21 Science Program Manager, Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
ruzek@usra.edu
I have been involved in
NASAıs Earth remote sensing programs since 1983, serving in science
coordination and program management roles. I am currently a Science Program Manager with Universities
Space Research Association and serve as the Program Manager and Earth System
Science Education Resource Specialist for ESSE 21.
I became involved in NASA's
Earth remote sensing programs in 1983 when I joined the Radar Science Group at
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. I served as the Science Coordinator for the Shuttle Imaging
Radar-B (SIR-B) project in 1984, and as Experiment Scientist for the SIR-C
project until 1991 when I became Acting Program Manager for Mission Operations
and Data Analysis in the Office of Mission to Planet Earth at NASA
Headquarters. I have experience
with many of NASA's Earth science missions and datasets, and actively promote
the use of Internet based resources and visualizations for Earth system science
education.
I joined USRA in 1993 and
contributed to the development of the Cooperative University-based Program for
Earth System Science Education (ESSE) sponsored by NASA. As Resource Specialist I was
responsible for ESSE program implementation and outreach development, coordinating
Internet-based resources for the ESSE member institutions. I have been an invited speaker and
workshop presenter on Earth system science and Internet-based education topics
at national science and education meetings, at schools, and for teacher
in-service training workshops.
I was the co-leader for
program planning and definition efforts sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Global
Change Research (IAI) to bring the ESSE concept to a coalition of seventeen
countries in the Americas, and was the coordinator for IAI/ESSE workshops held
in Mexico and Brazil in 1998 and 1999 for an audience of undergraduate
educators. I was Co-I on the
UCAR-led Geoscience Digital Library project which led to the Digital Library
for Earth System Education (DLESE), and contributed to DLESE design and implementation
as part of the Collections Subcommittee, helping to design content review
criteria procedures.
I am the concept architect
and managing editor of the fledgling electronic peer-reviewed Journal of
Earth System Science Education Resources
(JESSE) that was started with seed
money from NSF. I have
participated in numerous proposal and product reviews for NASA and NSF
programs. I designed and directed
the implementation of the NASA-sponsored Earth Science Picture of the Day
website to promote awareness and understanding of Earth processes using Earth
photos and descriptive captions.
I have a B.S. in geochemistry
and an M.S. in geology, both from the California Institute of Technology.
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Assistant Professor, Austin College, Department of
Education. Co-participant on the
ESSE 21 project entitled Earth System Science
Education in a Liberal Arts Environment: Unique
Undergraduate Experiences and Enhanced Public
Awareness.
jshahid@austincollege.edu
I have an M.S. and Ed.D. in educational administration
from Texas A&M University. I
spent 7 years in the McKinny (Texas) Independent School District as an academic
coordinator, curriculum director, and ACT Academy Director. At Austin College I am responsible for
teaching undergraduate education classes in addition to graduate classes in
research and assessment, social studies, and science methods for the elementary
teacher. Undergraduate classes
provide in-depth field experience with a 9-week teaching assignment in local
schools. I am responsible for
supervising the student teaching experience for students in both undergraduate
and graduate classes.
I am a member of the
following professional organizations: the American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education, the American Education Research Association, Metroplex
Science Supervisors Association, the National Council for the Social Studies,
and the National Science Teachers Association.
I am currently on the
following organization boards or committees: Heard Natural Science Museum Board, McKinney Education
Foundation Board, Austin Collegeıs Environmental Science Committee, and the
Leadership Institute Steering Committee.
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Assistant Professor, University of Northern Colorado,
Department of Earth Sciences.
lucinda.shellito@unco.edu
I am a professor of
meteorology and climatology. My
dissertation work, completed at the University
of California, Santa Cruz,
involved using global models of climate and vegetation to explore mechanisms
for global change during the rapid climate transition at the Paleocene-Eocene
boundary (~55Ma).
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Assistant Research Professor, Rutgers University,
Department of Environmental Science
siewierski@aesop.rutgers.edu
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University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute
roger.smith@gi.alaska.edu
I was appointed Director of
the Geophysical Institute on May 1, 2000, after serving as Interim Director
since July 1999. I arrived in
Fairbanks in 1984 to accept a position as associate professor of physics at the
Institute. I became a full
professor of physics in 1989, and from 1996 to 1999 served as the Associate
Director of the institute.
I earned my B.S. and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Exeter in
England. I was a Senior Research
Fellow at Exeter University and a Research Fellow and Teaching Assistant at
Queens University in Belfast, Ireland.
Following that, I accepted a faculty position in the physics department
at Ulster Polytechnic (now Ulster University) in Ireland. There I led a team of researchers who
obtained the first 24-hour records of upper atmospheric winds. Permanent stations for this purpose
were established in 1978 at Svalbard, in the Barents Sea, and in 1982 in Halley
Bay, Antarctica.
I specialize in the study of upper-atmospheric dynamics and auroral dynamics at
high latitudes by optical methods.
I have conducted wind and temperature studies of the thermosphere in
both the Arctic and Antarctic. My
interests have extended to optical investigations of the mesosphere using the
same techniques. I conducted
studies of auroral transients at Svalbard.
I am currently a member of the following: GEM Steering Committee since 1995,
CEDAR Steering Committee since 1998 and previous years 1990-1994 of the
National Science Foundation (NSF).
I have been U. S. Editorial Advisor for the International Journal of
Geomagnetism and Aeronomy since
1997. I am a member of the
Institute of Physics; committee member of Irish Branch from 1978 to 1982, a
member of the Translation Committee of the American Geophysical Union from
1988-1992, and chairman of the Working Group 2 for Thermospheric Dynamics,
International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy from 1986 to 1990.
I received the NSF Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America in
1990. Also in 1990, I received the
Merit Award of the College of Natural Sciences of the University of Alaska
Fairbanks, in recognition of distinguished achievement in teaching, research,
and services to the Physics Department and the Geophysical Institute.
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Professor and Dean, College of Geosciences, University of Oklahoma.
Director, Oklahoma Weather Center Programs
jsnow@ou.edu
I have B.S. and M.S. degrees
in electrical engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (then
Rose Polytechnic Institute) and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from Purdue
University. I was a member of the
faculty at Purdue for 16 years before moving to the University of Oklahoma.
My current professional
interest is in Earth system science, the integration of the best available
knowledge from the Earth and life sciences to provide a holistic picture of
³how the world works². My primary
research area has been the dynamics of columnar vortices, ranging in scale from
small dust devils to tornadoes. My
second area of research is in meteorological measurements.
I am a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society and a member of the Royal Meteorological Society of the
United Kingdom. I am a Certified
Consulting Meteorologist. In
recent years I have chaired both the Board of Trustees of the University
Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the Board on Oceans and
Atmospheres for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges, and served for six years as Commissioner for Education and Human
Resources for the American Meteorological Society.
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Associate through Universities Space Research Association (USRA)
jeanthiebaux@verizon.net
I received my Ph.D. in
statistics from Stanford University.
From 1964 through 1974, I was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford
University, an assistant professor with half-time teaching and research
positions at the University of Connecticut in Storrs and Amherst,
Massachusetts. While at the
University of Colorado, Boulder, I was also a visiting scientist at the
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Between1975 and 1985 I was an Associate Professor and then Professor on the faculty of Dalhousie
University (Halifax, Nova
Scotia) with one sabbatical year in McGill Universityıs Department of
Meteorology, with research
support from NSERC and the Atmospheric Environment Service (now Meteorological
Service of Canada).
From 1985 through-2001 I was
a UCAR Visitor, then Senior Scientist at NOAAıs National Center for
Environmental
Prediction. This period includes
18 months leave to the National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical
Sciences, as program director and coordinator for collaborative research in the
mathematical and geosciences and one yearıs leave as an NSF visiting professor
at the Pennsylvania
State University in the
Department of Meteorology. In 2002
I was a Visiting Professor, Departments of Mathematics and Statistics and
Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada.
In each of the universities
in which I have taught, I have designed courses that have responded to the
needs for quantitative methods for representing and making inferences about
systems studied by biological or physical scientists. These courses have ranged from introductions to statistical
and probabilistic thinking for students in biology and public health, to the
theory of spectral analysis for
doctoral and postdoctoral
students of the geophysical sciences.
I am a member of the American
Geophysical Union and a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
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University of Florida, Department of Geological
Sciences
rgthomas@geology.ufl.edu
I am a faculty member in the
Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Florida. My duties include the design and
development of multimedia resources to enhance Earth science education in both
higher education and the K-12 community.
I have lead workshops for excellence in teaching and teacher
preparation. I continue to be a
strong voice for a systems approach when teaching Earth science, incorporating
the components of the Earth system – the geosphere, hydrosphere,
atmosphere, and biosphere.
I have served as a member of
the Florida Department of Educationıs Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test
(FCAT) Science Expert Panel, and have played an active role in the development
of a standards-based Earth science curriculum. As a Phase I ESSE program participant, I was team leader for
the El Niño learning module and have served as an editor for technology and
electronic media for the Journal of Earth System Science Education (JESSE). I
have participated in numerous NASA-sponsored educational workshops and
meetings, including ALERT and Earth Science Education Community Meetings. I have also served on the NSF/NASA
organizing committee to develop a digital library for Earth science education
and have been a discussion group leader at DLESE meetings.
My research interests include
geochemistry, seismology, paleomagnetism, and developing scientific
instrumentation.
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Associate Professor, New Mexico State University,
Department of Agronomy and Horticulture
Principal Participant on the ESSE 21 project entitled Course
Development for Introductory Environmental Sciences.
aulery@nmsu.edu
My area of research and
teaching at New Mexico State University is environmental soil chemistry. I've been in Las Cruces, NM for seven
years after living in southern California for most of my life. It has sometimes been a challenge for
me coming from the "big city" where I was anonymous to a relatively
small city where everyone seems to know me, but I love it for the most part
(just have to remember not to gossip in public).
My B.S. degree is in geology
from the University of Redlands, and my M.S. and Ph.D. degrees are both in soil
science from the University of California at Riverside. Geology was a really fun undergraduate
major, but when I graduated
and started interviewing for jobs in oil companies, I had an attack of
conscience and decided that I really wanted to do more to "feed the world
and clean up the environment" and soil science seemed the best way to do
that. So now I teach Soil
Chemistry, Advanced Soil Chemistry, HAZMAT, Introductory Soil Science, and
Introductory Environmental Science Lab.
I advise lots of
undergraduate and graduate students and conduct research in soil quality,
including both environmental and agronomic issues like phytoremediation of
metal-contaminated soils, salt tolerance of chile peppers, land application of
dairy wastes, etc. I have been
extremely fortunate in my life including having a fun, supportive spouse (over
19 years together), lots of great work experience, and now this wonderful
opportunity to interact with the Earth System Science community and incorporate
ESS into the environmental science curricula at NMSU.
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Research Associate Professor, University of New
Hampshire, Climate Change Research Center/EOS.
Principal Participant of the ESSE 21 project entitled Advancing
Earth System Science Education
for the
21st Century: An Interdisciplinary Educational Initiative for University
Students.
cameron.wake@unh.edu
In addition to directing an
active ice core paleoclimate research in central Asia and the Arctic, I am
involved in the NOAA-funded AIRMAP (Atmospheric Investigation, Regional
Modeling, Analysis and Prediction) project (http://airmap.unh.edu). AIRMAP seeks to improve our
understanding of New Englandıs changing climate and air quality through the
investigation of the physical and chemical aspects of the New England atmosphere,
with a particular focus on the relationship between weather and air
quality.
Outreach and engagement
efforts are focused on improving the publicıs awareness and knowledge of
climate change and air quality issues in New England and highlighting the
availability of decision relevant
real time air quality
information. I am also leading the
INHALE (Integrated Human Health and Air Quality Assessment) project aimed at
improving our understanding of how air pollution and weather effect human health.
The results will be used to create informed public policy and guide the
development of air quality forecasting tools.
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Professor, University of Rhode Island, Department of
Natural Resources Science
yqwang@uri.edu
I am a full professor in
terrestrial remote sensing in the Department of Natural Resources Science at
the University of Rhode Island. I
received a B.S. degree from the Northeast Normal University and my first M.S.
degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, majoring in remote sensing and
mapping. I received my second M.S.
and the Ph.D. degree in natural resources management and engineering,
respectively, from the University of Connecticut.
Between 1995 and 1999 I was
on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining the
faculty of the University of Rhode Island. I teach courses in terrestrial remote sensing and conduct
scientific research at the local, regional, and international levels. My research interests are in
terrestrial remote sensing and natural resources mapping. Particular areas of interest include
remote sensing of dynamics of landscape and land-use/land-cover change. My main
research focus is in developing modeling mechanisms to bridge driving factors
and consequences of land-cover changes so that human impacts on ecosystems can
be effectively modeled.
My projects have been funded
by NASA, USAID, USDA, and the National Park Service. My study areas include the
northeast and midwest of the United States, East Africa, and northeast
China. I am the principal
participant of the University of Rhode Island and Providence College team as
one of the
associate institutions of the
ESSE21 Program.
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Graduate Student, University of New Hampshire
traceyw@gust.sr.unh.edu
I grew up in Vermont and
graduated from Johnson State College with a B.S. degree in environmental
science/integrated sciences. I
transferred to Johnson State from UVM where I was studying environmental
science/natural resources. While
at Johnson State College, I attended Humboldt State College in California
through the National Student Exchange Program where I focused on geology and
appropriate technology.
My previous work experience
includes the following:
· a biotechnical position at Mount Rainier National Park
where I participated in long-term limnological glacial lake and amphibian
survey studies;
· the Juneau Icefield Research Program as a student
researcher investigating englacial features and their relation to climate;
· working on a local organic vegetable farm to gain
knowledge of biological pest management and local community consumer impact on
produce distribution; and,
· a position as a veterinary technician learning animal
and medical science.
During my undergraduate studies at Johnson State College,
I took an active interest in teaching and tutored peers in biology, chemistry,
calculus, Earth science, hydrology, environmental geology, meteorology/climatology,
and physics. I am currently pursuing
a Master's degree in Earth science and specializing in geochemical systems and
climate Change while also taking classes from the College for Teaching
Excellence to advance my knowledge of Earth system science and education.
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Research Scientist/Lecturer, Morgan State University,
School of Engineering
Principal Participant of the ESSE 21 project entitled Earth
System and Global Change Sciences Program
fwilson@morgan.edu
Ph.D. in environmental science with an emphasis on remote
sensing and geographic information systems, Jackson State University.
M.S. in biology/marine
science with an emphasis on geographic information systems, Jackson State
University.
Postgraduate diploma in
meteorology, University of Cairo and Meteorological Research Institute of
Egypt.
M.Sc. in oceanology with a
major in physical oceanography and a minor in hydrometeorology, St. Petersburg
HydroMeteorological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia.
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Professor and Chair, Department of Atmospheric
Sciences, University of Illinois
Principal Participant of the ESSE 21 project entitled, Development
of an Undergraduate Major in the
Earth System, Environment, and Society
wuebbles@atmos.uiuc.edu
I earned my B.S. and M.S.
degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. I received my Ph.D. in atmospheric
sciences from the University of California at Davis. I spent many years as a research scientist and group
leader at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before returning to the
University of Illinois in 1994.
My research has emphasized
the development and use of mathematical models of the atmosphere to study the
chemical and physical processes that determine atmospheric structure. I am the author of over 300 scientific
articles, most of which relate to atmospheric chemistry and global climate
change as affected by both human activities and natural phenomena. I also direct a number of research
projects that are primarily oriented towards improving our understanding of the
impacts that man-made and natural trace gases may be having on the Earth's
climate and on tropospheric and stratospheric chemistry, with emphasis on
concerns about global ozone. A
number of my studies also relate to the relationship between the physical
science of global change and the social sciences, including analysis techniques
needed in considering potential policy considerations
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George
S. Young
Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Department of
Meteorology
young@ems.psu.edu
I received my Ph.D. in
atmospheric sciences from Colorado State University and have been with Penn
State since that time. My research
interests include observational and diagnostic studies of turbulence and
mesoscale weather systems as well as forecast technique development and
implementation.
My teaching interests include
turbulence, mesoscale and synoptic-scale weather systems, weather forecasting,
weather data archive, analysis and distribution systems. I participate in field programs in the
areas of boundary layer turbulence and mesoscale weather systems. The interactions of these two scales of
atmospheric motion are a particular interest.
Field projects include
investigation of mesoscale convective systems as part of the AMEX, EMEX, and
TOGA-COARE experiments, study of marine stratocumulus capped boundary layers as
part of the FIRE, ASTEX and LAKE-ICE experiments, and analysis of coherent
structures within boundary layer turbulence.
Remote sensing research
interests include satellite-borne synthetic aperture radar studies of mesoscale
marine meteorological phenomena, MODIS satellite investigations of boundary
layer cloud patterns, and satellite telemetry analyses of the meteorological
influences on avian migration.