Environmental Engineering Science Seminar
Cupples II, Room 202
Friday, April 28, 2006
Time: 4 pm
Synthesis of Satellite Data into an Integrated Global Observing Strategy for Air Quality
Dr.
Jack Fishman
Chemistry and Dynamics Branch
Science Directorate
NASA Langley Research Center
Hampton, Virginia
“We, the participants in this Earth Observation Summit held in Washington, DC, on July 31, 2003 recognize the need to support …
(1) Improved coordination of strategies and systems for observations of the Earth and identification of measures to minimize data gaps, with a view to moving toward a comprehensive, coordinated, and sustained Earth observation system or systems …”
The above declaration has set in motion a flurry of national and international activity to accomplish this goal. In the specific area of air quality and atmospheric composition, there currently exists a plethora of observations from a variety of sources including surface networks, balloons, aircraft, and satellite platforms. This seminar will examine how atmospheric composition measurements from satellites can be integrated into this global “systems of systems” as well as providing some of the latest findings from satellite measurements and how they relate to what is observed at the surface.
Biosketch:
Jack Fishman received a B.A. Degree in Math/Chemistry in 1971
from the University of Missouri and both the M.S. (1974) and Ph.D. (1977)
degrees in Meteorology from Saint Louis University. From 1976-1979, he worked
at the National Center for Atmospheric Research as a Research Associate for
Colorado State University. From April to September 1979, Dr. Fishman was a
Visiting Research Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz,
West Germany. He has been in the Atmospheric Sciences Division (now Science
Directorate) at NASA Langley Research Center since December 1979, during which
time he served as Assistant Branch Head (1988-1992) and Head of the Chemistry
and Dynamics Branch (1992-1996). He is the author or co-author of more than 90
journal articles, book chapters, and books.
Jack has been a member of the World Meteorological Organization’s Science Advisory Committee on Ozone since 1999 and he was one of three U.S. representatives to develop the International Global Observing Strategy for the measurement of trace gases. The IGACO (Integrated Global Atmospheric Chemistry Observations) theme report was released in 2004 and provides guidelines for the implementation of GEOSS (Group on Earth Observations System of Systems), which was one of the primary recommendations emanating from the Environmental Summit held in Washington DC in July 2003. He was a Co-Investigator for the EOS TRACER (Tropospheric Radiometer for Atmospheric Chemistry) proposal to study the global distribution of carbon monoxide and methane in the troposphere. He is also a Science Team member for the LASE (Lidar Atmospheric Sounding Experiment) instrument which is planned to study tropospheric water vapor variations from an ER-2 aircraft. He is a member of the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) and Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) Science Teams. Jack has served on the American Meteorological Society’s Scientific and Technical Committee on Atmospheric Chemistry (1980-1983; 1996-1999). In 1982, he conceived and organized the Second Symposium on the Composition of the Nonurban Troposphere, which was jointly sponsored by NASA, AMS, and the American Geophysical Union. Jack has been (1986-1988) Associate Editor of the AGU's Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres and served that journal as a Guest Editor in during the publication of the TRACE-A results (1994-1996). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry. He has received numerous NASA awards for Special Achievement, Outstanding Performance, and for Group Achievement (1985, 1993). He received Langley's Technical Excellence Award in 1987 and its Outstanding Leadership Award in 1993 as well as an award the Outstanding Paper in the Space Directorate in 1992. In 1993, he received the Agency's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal. The American Meteorological Society presented Dr. Fishman with the Louis J. Battan Outstanding Award in 1997. In 2005, Jack was recognized by his Alma Mater, the University of Missouri at Columbia, by presenting him with a the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Arts and Science.
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