Research Scientist/Scholar III, Meteorological Satellite Applications (MetSat) Team Lead
In January 2012, he joined the CIRA as a post-doctoral researcher as a member of the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Imagery/Visualization team and the JPSS Cloud CAL/VAL team, where he has received several Certificates of Recognition from the JPSS Program Office for efforts related to validation of VIIRS Imagery products and the retrieval of Cloud Base Height from VIIRS.
In 2016, he joined the GOES-R AWG Imagery Team where he has contributed to the validation of Cloud and Moisture Imagery (CMI) products for all four Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instruments launched during the GOES-R era.
He has spent the last decade developing satellite imagery products for the detection and monitoring of environmental hazards, including: fires, smoke, snow and ice, dust and clouds. He has worked with satellite imagery from a wide variety of polar-orbiting and geostationary satellites, including: Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20/21, GOES-16/17/18/19, Meteosat-8/9/10/11, Himawari-8/9, Meteosat Third Generation (Meteosat-12), and GeoKOMPSAT-2a. In 2017, he was part of a team awarded with the CO-LABS Governor’s Award for High Impact Research for the development of Synthetic True Color imagery for ABI.
Products he has helped to develop that are now in use by the National Weather Service and other operational forecasters include: GeoColor, DEBRA Dust, the Fire Temperature RGB, Day Fire RGB, Snowmelt RGB and the Snow/Cloud Discriminator. He is also part of the NOAA METimage Imagery Team that will provide imagery products from the recently launched European satellite, Metop-SG-A1.
Since 2021, he has served as Lead of the Meteorological Satellite Applications (MetSat) Team. He is also the lead of the SLIDER Team that provides global satellite imagery in realtime on our SLIDER website: https://slider.cira.colostate.edu
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