Michael Hiatt
Michael Hiatt
Research Systems Group Manager
Office: ACRC Room 101
Phone: 970-491-8448
Fax: 970-491-8241
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Michael Hiatt
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere
Colorado State University
1375 Campus Delivery
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1375
Biography

Michael Hiatt received his BS in Electrical Engineering and Minor in Mathematics from Colorado State University in 1987. He has been part of the CIRA technical team since graduation starting as an entry level engineer. Today, he is CIRA’s infrastructure manager. His areas of interest include satellite earthstation technology, digital circuit design, large data set system design, processing, and archive, Windows-based infrastructures, and Microsoft .NET programming. Special accomplishments include first Xilinx FPGA frame synchronizer, DVD/BD archival system for large data sets, and first light from several NOAA GOES satellites. Michael also introduced the concept of mainstream technology for science applications at CIRA. Today, not only does CIRA benefit from this topology, the Cloudsat DPC has also leveraged this concept into a successful program. Michael has been recognized with CIRA's Researcher of the Year and Distinguished Administrative Professional awards.

Recent Work

Michael provides technical planning, management, and support for CIRA’s infrastructure. He also solely operates the satellite earthstation which currently collects GOES, MSG, and AVHRR data.

His recent special project is the hardware manager for the Cloudsat data processing center. This includes hardware and system planning, development, deployment, and maintenance. Using techniques developed in CIRA’s earthstation, Michael deployed a similar mainstream technology platform. Special considerations have been given to security and high speed networking. The earthstation DVD writing system was used and accepted by NASA/JPL as the Cloudsat archive medium. New NAS storage systems (14TB/unit) have been recently designed and deployed to increase Cloudsat’s storage systems.
Selected Publications
  • Whitcomb, D., Eis, K. E., Hiatt, M. P., Reinke, D. L., 2000: A Windows NT-based GOES I-M data collection system, Preprints, 16th International Conference on IIPS.January 9-14, 2000,
  • Dean, K. R., Adams, C. R., Hiatt, M. P., 2000: Two inexpensive systems for receiving weather watches, warnings, and other pertinent weather information--NOAA Weather Radio and EMWIN, American Geophysical Union 20th Hydrology Days.April 2000, Fort Collins, CO
  • Hiatt, M. P., 1996: A GOES, AVHRR, and METEOSAT frame synchronizer design implemented in a single Xilinx FPGA, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.28 January -2 February 1996, Atlanta, GA
  • McClurg, N. D., Hiatt, M. P., Reinke, D. L., 1996: Low maintenance PC-based 30 GB GOES-8 data access and archive system, Preprints, 12th International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.28 January -2 February 1996, Atlanta, GA
  • Purcell, P. B., Allen, D. N., Hiatt, M. P., Vonder Haar, T. H., 1991: A PC-based GOES satellite direct readout earthstation and display system, Preprints, AMS 7th International Conference on International Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology.13-18 January 1991, New Orleans
  • Hiatt, M. P., Allen, D. N., Cornwall, C. R., Naqvi, S., Purcell, P. B., Vonder Haar, T. H., 1990: A near-real-time display system for GOES satellite data in small aircraft, AMS 6th International Conference on International Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology.07-09 February 1990, Anaheim, CA
  • Purcell, P. B., Hiatt, M. P., Naqvi, S., Vonder Haar, T. H., Whitcomb, D., 1990: GOES I-M satellite data collection software design considerations, Preprints, AMS 6th International Conference on International Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology.07-09 February 1990, Anaheim, CA
  • Hiatt, M. P.: WEATHER SATELLITE DATA AND ANALYSIS EQUIPMENT AND SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
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