POLAR SCIENCE EDUCATION TEACHER WORKSHOP SPEAKER BIOS AND PRESENTATIONS
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Mr. Brian Campbell is the Hydrospheric Science and Education Specialist for the Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Brian presents at a myriad of national and international conventions and conferences throughout the year encompassing teacher organizations, scientific societies, and satellite mission site reviews. Brian is the main laboratory contact for proposals for the educational aspects of new hydrospheric satellite missions. Brian also serves as the Hydrospheric Division Webmaster. Before coming to NASA, Brian was a high school Earth/Space Science, Environmental Science, and Physics Teacher for 1 year in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and 4 years in Cambridge, Maryland. |
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Dr. Christopher Shuman is a NASA
Earth Scientist at the
Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. He is a
member of the Oceans and Ice Branch and Laboratory for Hydrospheric
Processes studying the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets using
satellite and field observations. The goal is to understand the role of
these vast ice sheets in past and present climates so that their future
may be predicted. He is also the Deputy Project Scientist for NASA's
ICESat mission as well as an Adjunct Faculty member of the Earth System Science
Interdisciplinary Center at the University of Maryland, College Park.
DR. SHUMAN'S PRESENTATION |
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Dr. Hall has been with the
Hydrological Sciences Branch at the Goddard Space Flight Center since
1975. Research interests focus on the remote sensing of ice and snow. Dr.
Hall has been involved in sea ice, snow, glacier and river and lake ice
field projects and aircraft missions in Alaska, Greenland, Iceland,
northern Canada and parts of the northern United States. She has written a
book entitled Remote Sensing of Ice and Snow by D.K. Hall and J. Martinec,
published by Chapman & Hall Ltd. in 1985. Dr. Hall has over 150 other
publications as well, mainly on topics of snow and ice. She was a
principal investigator on a Landsat Thematic Mapper glacier project, is
currently an associate MODIS team member, and has been P.I. on various
synthetic aperture radar projects, and education projects. In addition to
Goddard Space Flight Center internal awards, she received the Arthur S.
Flemming Award for Excellence in Government in 1988. She is a Past
President of the Eastern Snow Conference, and was a member of the American
Geophysical Union Committee on Global Environmental Change and has been on
the organizing committees of the International Glaciological Society and
the Eastern Snow Conference.
DR. HALL'S PRESENTATION MODIS Global Snow Cover Melting Icebergs (Reflectance) Retreating Muir Glacier Visualization of Muir Glacier Passive Microwave Radiation (Snow) Snow Flake Morph MODIS Global Swath MODIS Launch on Terra Spacecraft |
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Dr. Claire Parkinson has worked as
a
climatologist at Goddard since July 1978, with her research for much of
that time centering on satellite data analysis of sea ice and the role of
sea ice in the global climate system. She has also numerically modeled sea
ice and has done field work in both the Arctic and the Antarctic, most
recently as Chief Scientist on an expedition to the North Pole in April
1999. She is lead author of an atlas of Arctic sea ice from satellite data
and coauthor of two other sea ice atlases. Beyond her sea ice work, Dr.
Parkinson has coauthored a textbook on climate modeling and coedited a
book on satellite observations related to global change. She has also
written an introductory text on satellite imagery and a book on the
history of western science from 1202 to 1930. Since 1993, Dr. Parkinson
has served as Project Scientist for the Earth Observing System's Aqua
mission, launched in 2002, with six instruments on board to
measure many aspects of the Earth/atmosphere system. In 2001, she became a
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and received a NASA
Exceptional Service Medal. Dr. Parkinson has a B.A. in mathematics from
Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in climatology from Ohio State University.
DR. PARKINSON'S PRESENTATION Sea Ice Impact: Vital Component of the Inuit Lifestyle (Funny) |
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Dr. Robert Bindschadler has been an
active Antarctic field researcher for the past 20 years, has led 11 field
expeditions to Antarctica and has participated in many others to glaciers
and
ice caps around the world. He maintains an active interest in the dynamics
of glaciers and ice sheets, primarily on Earth, investigating how remote
sensing can be used to improve our understanding of the role of ice in the
Earth's climate. Applications developed by Dr. Bindschadler include
measuring ice velocity and elevation using both visible and radar imagery,
monitoring melt of the ice sheet by microwave emissions, and detecting
changes in ice-sheet volume by repeat space-borne radar altimetry. He has
advised the US Congress and the Vice President on the stability of ice
sheets and ice shelves and served on many scientific commissions and study
groups as an expert in glaciology and remote sensing of ice. Some of the
more significant awards he has received are Excellence in Federal Career
(1989), the Antarctic Service Medal (1984) and the NASA Exceptional
Scientific Achievement Medal (1994). He has published over 100 scientific
papers, numerous review articles and has appeared on television to comment
on glaciological impacts of the climate on the world's ice sheets and
glaciers. He currently is President of the International Glaciological
Society, chairs the West Antarctic Ice Sheet Initiative, sits on the
Editorial Board of the American Geophysical Union's Antarctic Research
Series and is an Editor for the Journal of Glaciology.
DR. BINDSCHADLER'S PRESENTATION INSTRUCTIONS SPREADSHEET POWERPOINT |
