 | Joan Alexander |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 204 | e-mail: alexand (at) cora.nwra.com; alexand (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences.
Atmospheric dynamics, waves, convection, global circulation modeling, mesoscale modeling, satellite, aircraft, balloon-borne observations, and middle atmosphere studies |
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 | Ed Andreas |
Senior Research Scientist
603-448-3555 | e-mail: eandreas (at) nwra.com
Boundary-layer meteorology: In particular, air-sea interaction in high
winds and the effects of spray; air-sea-ice interaction; scintillation and
electro-optical propagation in the atmospheric surface layer; fundamental
turbulence issues such as Monin-Obukhov similarity theory, time series
analysis, and measurement physics; technical writing. |
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 | Mark Baldwin |
Director, Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | e-mail: mark (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences.
The Arctic Oscillation, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, and propagation of planetary-scale waves in the troposphere and stratosphere. |
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 | Graham Barnes |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 234 | e-mail: graham (at) cora.nwra.com; graham (at) nwra.com
Space Physics.
Magnetohydrodynamics, numerical modeling of space plasmas.
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 | Dave Berliner |
Affiliate Scientist
Redmond Office | e-mail: daveb (at) nwra.com
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 | Aaron Birch |
Affiliate Scientist
Affil Office | e-mail: aaronb (at) nwra.com
Solar physics, local helioseismology, solar interior. |
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 | Douglas Braun |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 226 | e-mail: dbraun (at) nwra.com
Space Physics - solar and astrophysics.
Local helioseismology, solar interior. |
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| Greg Bullock |
Research Scientist
Monterey Office | e-mail: greg (at) nwra.com
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| Ashley Crouch |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 240 | e-mail: ash (at) cora.nwra.com; ash (at) nwra.com
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 | Eric Danioux |
Affiliate Scientist
Affil Office | e-mail: eric (at) nwra.com
Inertia-gravity waves. Geophysical turbulence. Interaction between
balanced and unbalanced motions. Mixed layer dynamics. |
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 | Donald Delisi |
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | e-mail: don (at) nwra.com
Acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of laboratory and field
measurements of vortex evolution, internal waves, and turbulent flows;
comparisons of field data with laboratory measurements and numerical
simulations; experimental fluid mechanics; analysis and interpretation
of atmospheric and oceanic flows. See also: Laboratory Services web page. |
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 | Tim Dunkerton |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 326 | e-mail: tim (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences
Dynamic meteorology, atmospheric general circulation. |
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 | Jeffrey Early |
Research Scientist
Redmond Office | e-mail: jearly (at) nwra.com
Mesoscale and large scale physical oceanography; the application of symmetry methods to geophysical fluid dynamics |
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 | Wayne Evans |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | e-mail: wayne (at) nwra.com
Remote sensing of atmospheric gases and radiation from satellites. Radiative forcing of climate by greenhouse gases, cirrus clouds and relative humidity, detection of new airglow emissions, absorption of solar NIR by precipitating clouds. |
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| Tobias Felipe Garcia |
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 233 | e-mail: tobias (at) cora.nwra.com; tobias (at) nwra.com
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 | Jonathan Fentzke |
Affiliate Scientist
Affil Office
Research focus on Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) studies including modeling, simulation, and data fusion using Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) and Lidar. Interests include collisional plasma processes in the E-Region of the Ionosphere as well as meteoric smoke measurements and their relation to the Micrometeoric Input Function (MIF). |
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fontenla.jpg) | John (Juan) Fontenla |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 227 | e-mail: jfontenla (at) nwra.com
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 | Patricia Franke |
Affiliate Scientist
e-mail: pfranke (at) cora.nwra.com; pfranke (at) nwra.com
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 | Edward Fremouw |
Founder, Emeritus
Near-Earth Space Science: ionospheric physics (satellite experiments & radiowave tomographic imaging) and radio propagation (scintillation observations & modeling). |
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 | Sergey Fridman |
Senior Research Scientist
Monterey Office | (831) 582-4902 | e-mail: sergey (at) nwra.com
Electromagnetic propagation in randomly structured ionization; Robust methods for solution of inverse problems and ill-posed problems; Ionospheric modeling for Over-the-Horizon radar coordinate registration; VHF/UHF ionospheric propagation and scintillations; Advanced signal processing for radar. |
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 | Peter Furey |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 230 | e-mail: furey (at) cora.nwra.com; furey (at) nwra.com
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 | Alison Grimsdell |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 211 | e-mail: grimsdell (at) nwra.com
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 | Mark Hausman |
Senior Research Scientist
Monterey Office | (831) 582-4903 | e-mail: markhausman (at) nwra.com
Research focus is on computer programs that model complex physical systems, specifically simulations and studies of ionospheric and space physics, and their effects on radar and communications systems. Fields of expertise include data translation (e.g., raw radar data from ROTHR and BMEWS) and data visualization. |
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| Hiroyuki Iimura |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 201 | e-mail: iimurah (at) cora.nwra.com; iimurah (at) nwra.com
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| Brenda Javornik |
Support Engineer
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 210 | e-mail: brendaj (at) nwra.com
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 | Kristina Katsaros |
Emeritus
Redmond Office | e-mail: katsaros (at) whidbey.net
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 | Dennis Knepp |
Senior Research Scientist
Monterey Office | (831) 582-4906 | e-mail: dennis.knepp (at) nwra.com
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 | David Lai |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 313 | e-mail: dlai (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics.
Turbulence, vortices, remote sensing. |
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 | KD Leka |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 219 | e-mail: leka (at) nwra.com
Space Physics.
Solar physics, solar magnetic fields, sunspots and solar active regions, solar flares, polarimetry and instrumentation. |
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 | Pascale Lelong |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 336 | e-mail: pascale (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences.
Geophysical fluid dynamics; perturbation and asymptotic methods; numerical modeling.
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 | Gad Levy |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 324 | e-mail: gad (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean and Earth Sciences |
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 | Beate Liepert |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 306 | e-mail: liepert (at) nwra.com
Climate variability from inter-annual to centennial time scales, water and energy cycle in a changing climate. Global dimming and brightening and its implications for climate including the water and carbon cycles. In-situ measurements of air pollution and radiative properties in urban and suburban environments on board hot-air balloons. |
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 | Jonathan Lilly |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 328 | e-mail: lilly (at) nwra.com
Oceanic vortex structures, deep convection, time / frequency analysis methods, wave-wave interactions, and satellite oceanography. |
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 | Charles Lindsey |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 238 | e-mail: lindsey (at) cora.nwra.com; lindsey (at) nwra.com
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 | Fiona Lo |
Support Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 315 | e-mail: fiona (at) nwra.com
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 | Thomas Lund |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 209 | e-mail: lund (at) nwra.com
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 | Larry Mahrt |
Senior Research Scientist
(541) 754-7501 | e-mail: mahrt (at) nwra.com
Boundary layers and turbulence, evapotranspiration, air-sea interaction,
bouyancy-driven slope flows, micrometeorology. |
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 | Gloria Manney |
Senior Research Scientist
e-mail: manney (at) nwra.com
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 | Philip Mote |
Affiliate Scientist
Affil Office | e-mail: pmote (at) coas.oregonstate.edu
Studies of clouds, water vapor, and radiation in the
tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. |
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 | Andreas Muschinski |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 228 | e-mail: andreas (at) cora.nwra.com; andreas (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Physics. Atmospheric turbulence and waves; atmospheric remote sensing; optical, acoustic, and radio-wave propagation through the turbulent atmosphere; boundary-layer meteorology; atmospheric measurement science. |
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 | Jason Naylor |
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 237 | e-mail: jnaylor (at) nwra.com
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 | LJ Nickisch |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Monterey Office | (831) 582-4905 | e-mail: lj (at) nwra.com
Theoretical physics; computational physics and numerical simulation; electromagnetic propagation in randomly structured ionization; HF communication and signal specification in nuclear environments; over-the-horizon radar; VHF/UHF radar ionization-induced propagation effects; stochastic electrodynamics and ZPF-related physics. |
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 | Joan Oltman-Shay |
President, Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office
Science Research in Nearshore Processes. Since graduating from Scripps
in 1986, she has spent much of her technical career performing field and
model studies of nearshore (shoreline to nominally 10m depth) wave and
current dynamics and the interplay with sediment- and morpho-dynamics.
e-mail: j[dot]oltman[dot]shay[at]nwra[dot]com
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 | David Ortland |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 309 | e-mail: ortland (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences.
Atmospheric and mathematical science.
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 | Lee Piper |
Support Engineer
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 308 | e-mail: lee (at) nwra.com
Fluid dynamics laboratory simulation and test engineering, oceanographic instrumentation.
See also: Laboratory Services web page. |
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 | Matthew Pruis |
Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 311 | e-mail: matt (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth sciences; Polar sciences; Deep-water oceanography.
Boundary layer processes and turbulent flow; Ice modeling, mechanics and forecasting; Hydrogeology, hydrothermal mass and energy fluxes; Geophysical forward and inverse modeling and non-stationary time-series analysis. |
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 | Robert Robins |
Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 305 | e-mail: bob (at) nwra.com
Computer modeling of hydrodynamic phenomena, including vortex evolution, internal wave propagation, and turbulent dissipation; validation of computer models by comparison of computer results with observational data; processing and visualization of scientific data; diversified computing experience: various micro, mini, main-frame, and super computer systems. |
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 | David Schecter |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 215 | e-mail: schecter (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Research |
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 | Richard Scott |
Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 330 | e-mail: scott (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics.
Atmospheric Dynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Numerical Modeling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. |
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 | James Secan |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 322 | e-mail: jim (at) nwra.com
Space physics.
Ionospheric physics (modeling, observations, data analysis), space weather (effects of the space environment on satellite, communications, and navigation systems), and operational software design and implementation.
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 | Francis Smith |
Affiliate Engineer
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 327 | e-mail: frank (at) nwra.com
Data acquisition systems, data analysis (time and frequency domain), industrial process control (stability analysis and hardware selection), analog/digital circuit design, electro-optical systems, microprocessor system design, heat-exchanger design. |
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 | Chad Spooner |
Senior Research Scientist
Monterey Office | (831) 582-4904 | e-mail: cmspooner (at) nwra.com
Instruments and Software, Statistical Signal Processing, Higher-Order Statistics,
Cyclostationary Signals, and Automatic Signal Classification
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 | Peter Stamus |
Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 224 | e-mail: stamus (at) cora.nwra.com: stamus (at) nwra.com
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| Jeremy Thomas |
Research Scientist
Redmond Office | (425) 556-9055 ext. 321 | e-mail: jeremy (at) nwra.com
I study geophysical electric and magnetic fields to further our understanding of Earth's atmosphere and space environment. Topics include lightning, middle atmospheric discharges such as sprites and ELVES, solar-terrestrial effects in the ionosphere and magnetosphere, and reports of geomagnetic and ionospheric precursors to earthquakes. |
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 | Sharon Vadas-Arendt |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 202 | e-mail: vasha (at) cora.nwra.com; vasha (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric physics, gravity wave dissipation in the thermosphere, ray tracing gravity waves in the lower atmosphere and thermosphere, gravity wave source specification from convection, secondary gravity wave source specification, and modelling horizontal and vertical body forcing. Both analytical and numerical techniques are employed.
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 | Harry van Loon |
Emeritus
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 237 | e-mail: vanloon (at) nwra.com
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| Eric Wagner |
Support Engineer
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 221 | e-mail: wagneric (at) cora.nwra.com;wagneric (at) nwra.com
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 | Joseph Werne |
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 207 | e-mail: werne (at) cora.nwra.com; werne (at) nwra.com
High-performance computing, including algorithm development, implementation and optimization on massively parallel processor (MPP) computer platforms; Detailed experience with Cray YMP, C90, T3D, T3E and SGI Origin 2000 machines at various U.S. supercomputer centers. Emphasis is on turbulence in both convection and stable-layer simulation and theory. |
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 | Martin Woodard |
Senior Research Scientist
Boulder Office | (303) 415-9701 ext. 203 | e-mail: mfw (at) nwra.com
Space physics. Helioseismology, the solar interior, astrophysics. |
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