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NWRA Scientists

Joan Alexander
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 204 | e-mail: alexand (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences. Atmospheric dynamics, waves, convection, global circulation modeling, mesoscale modeling, satellite, aircraft, balloon-borne observations, and middle atmosphere studies
 
Ed Andreas
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - New Hampshire  |  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.
 
Mark Baldwin
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 323 | 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.
 
Graham Barnes
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 234 | e-mail: graham (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics. Magnetohydrodynamics, numerical modeling of space plasmas.
 
Dave Berliner
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 310 | e-mail: daveb (at) nwra.com
 
Aaron Birch
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 236 | e-mail: aaronb (at) cora.nwra.com
Solar physics, local helioseismology, solar interior.
 
Douglas Braun
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 226 | e-mail: dbraun (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics - solar and astrophysics. Local helioseismology, solar interior.
 
Max Coon
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 332 | e-mail: max (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences - polar sciences Ice mechanics, stress analysis, modeling.
 
Ashley Crouch
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 240 | e-mail: ash (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Bergen Delisi
Data Aid
Seattle Division
 
Donald Delisi
Founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | 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.
 
Phil Dunkerton
Lab Assistant/Data Aide
Seattle Division
Website/Computer Admin., Argus GCP work, Java code.
 
Tim Dunkerton
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 326 | e-mail: tim (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences Dynamic meteorology, atmospheric general circulation.
 
Jonathan Fentzke
Student Intern
CoRA Division | e-mail: fentzke (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Patricia Franke
Affiliate Scientist
CoRA Division - Illinois
 
Edward Fremouw
Founder, Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division - Ashland, OR
Near-Earth Space Science: ionospheric physics (satellite experiments & radiowave tomographic imaging) and radio propagation (scintillation observations & modeling).
 
Sergey Fridman
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA 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.
 
David Fritts
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 205 | e-mail: dave (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics. Wave and instability processes, turbulence, boundary layers, atmospheric circulation.
 
Peter Furey
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 230 | e-mail: furey (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Dan Goldstein
Research Scientist
CoRA Division - Missouri | e-mail: dan (at) cora.nwra.com
Turbulence, Geophysical fluid dynamics, Numerical modeling, Wavelets, Temporally and spatially adaptive simulation methods, Adaptive large eddy simulation.
 
Alison Grimsdell
Post Doc Research Associate
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 211 | e-mail: grimsdell (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Mark Hausman
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA 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.
 
Rolf Hertenstein
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 210 | e-mail: herten (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric science, atmospheric dynamics, observations and numerical modeling of mountain waves and associated turbulent rotors.
 
Kazunori Ishibashi
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 241 | e-mail: bish (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Joshua Jacobs
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: joshua (at) nwra.com
 
Diego Janches
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 228 | e-mail: diego (at) cora.nwra.com
Radar and Lidar Studies of the Micrometeor Mass Input and its effects into the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere (MLT). Orbital dust distribution and populations in the solar system, Ionospheric and Gravity Wave in the MLT studies using Incoherent Scatter Radars.
 
Kristina Katsaros
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: katsaros (at) whidbey.com
 
Dennis Knepp
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA Office  |  (831) 582-4906 | e-mail: dennis.knepp (at) nwra.com
 
David Lai
Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 313 | e-mail: dlai (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics. Turbulence, vortices, remote sensing.
 
Brian Laughman
Student Intern
CoRA Division | e-mail: laughman (at) cora.nwra.com
 
KD Leka
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 219 | e-mail: leka (at) cora.nwra.com
Space Physics. Solar physics, solar magnetic fields, sunspots and solar active regions, solar flares, polarimetry and instrumentation.
 
Pascale Lelong
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 336 | e-mail: pascale (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth Sciences. Geophysical fluid dynamics; perturbation and asymptotic methods; numerical modeling.
 
Gad Levy
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 324 | e-mail: gad (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean and Earth Sciences
 
Ruth Lieberman
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 212
Ocean and Earth sciences. Satellite data analysis, dynamics of large-scale motions. Analysis of tides, mean winds and planetary-scale waves, studies of tide and planetary wave-mean flow interaction, numerical modeling of tides and zonal mean circulations, GCM validation.
 
Charles Lindsey
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 238 | e-mail: lindsey (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Thomas Lund
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 209 | e-mail: lund (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Larry Mahrt
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Corvallis, OR  |  (541) 754-7501 | e-mail: mahrt (at) nwra.com
Boundary layers and turbulence, evapotranspiration, air-sea interaction, bouyancy-driven slope flows, micrometeorology.
 
George Mellman
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 328
 
Ralph Milliff
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 216 | e-mail: milliff (at) cora.nwra.com
Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences. Funded research activities involve: global and regional surface vector wind data applications; Bayesian hierarchical modelling; general circulation modelling; atmosphere-ocean interactions.
 
Richard Mills
Student Intern
Seattle Division - Corvallis, OR
 
Jan Morzel
Support Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 206 | e-mail: morzel (at) cora.nwra.com
Ocean and Earth sciences. Remote sensing, Scatterometers
 
Philip Mote
Affiliate Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: mote (at) nwra.com
Studies of clouds, water vapor, and radiation in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
 
LJ Nickisch
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA 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.
 
Joan Oltman-Shay
President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: joan (at) nwra.com
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.
 
David Ortland
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 309 | e-mail: ortland (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric and mathematical science.
 
Lee Piper
Support Engineer
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 308
Fluid dynamics laboratory simulation and test engineering, oceanographic instrumentation. See also: Laboratory Services web page.
 
Matthew Pruis
Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (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.
 
Dennis Riggin
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 208 | e-mail: riggin (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric radar studies, Gravity waves and planetary scale waves.
 
Robert Robins
Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (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.
 
David Schecter
Research Scientist
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 330 | e-mail: schecter (at) nwra.com
 
Richard Scott
Research Scientist
Seattle Division | e-mail: scott (at) nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics. Atmospheric Dynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Numerical Modeling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.
 
James Secan
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Tucson, AZ Office | 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.
 
Dana Shay
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: dana (at) nwra.com
 
David Shay
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: davids (at) nwra.com
 
Francis Smith
Affiliate Engineer
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 327
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.
 
Jonathan Sparks
Student Intern
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 248 | e-mail: sparksj (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Chad Spooner
Senior Research Scientist
Seattle Division - Monterey, CA 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
 
Peter Stamus
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 224 | e-mail: stamus (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Robert Stockwell
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 220 | e-mail: stockwell (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric Sciences. Signal / Image processing, Time-frequency analysis, Wavelets.
 
George Switzer
Support Scientist
Seattle Division - Norfolk, Virginia area  |  (757)-864-2026 | e-mail: gswitz (at) nwra.com
 
Sharon Vadas-Arendt
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 202 | e-mail: vasha (at) cora.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.
 
Harry van Loon
Emeritus Member
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 237 | e-mail: vanloon (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Kam Wan
Support Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 235 | e-mail: kwan (at) cora.nwra.com
Fluid Mechanics. Computer simulation; Measurement automation.
 
Ling Wang
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 213 | e-mail: lwang (at) cora.nwra.com
Atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric dynamics, waves, general circulation, turbulence dynamics.
 
Joseph Werne
Vice President, Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 207 | e-mail: werne (at) cora.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.
 
Bifford Williams
Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 243 | e-mail: biff (at) cora.nwra.com
Instrumentation and data analysis for the mesosphere and lower thermosphere/ionosphere. Deployment and operation of sodium lidars and all-sky imagers. Atmospheric gravity waves, tides, instabilities, and momentum flux. Layered mesopause phenomena. Meteor science: meteor trail imaging and the effect of meteor mass flux on sodium density.
 
Martin Woodard
Senior Research Scientist
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 203
Space physics. Helioseismology, the solar interior, astrophysics.
 

Alphabetical List of all NWRA Employees and Key Consultants

Alexander, Joan
Andreas, Ed
Baldwin, Mark
Ball, Susan
Bardsley, Debbi
Barnes, Graham
Begenisich, John
Begenisich, Mark
Berliner, Dave
Biggs, Janet
Birch, Aaron
Braun, Douglas
Cherkassky, Alexandra
Coon, Max
Crouch, Ashley
Crow, Holly
de la Cruz, Venus
Delisi, Bergen
Delisi, Donald
Dunkerton, Phil
Dunkerton, Tim
Fentzke, Jonathan
Fodorean, Talida
Frahm, Andrew
Franke, Patricia
Fremouw, Edward
Fridman, Sergey
Fritts, David
Furey, Peter
Goldstein, Dan
Grebe, Bonnie
Gregory, Alice
Grimsdell, Alison
Hausman, Mark
Hertenstein, Rolf
Ishibashi, Kazunori
Jacobs, Joshua
Janches, Diego
Katsaros, Kristina
Knepp, Dennis
Lai, David
Laughman, Brian
Leka, KD
Lelong, Pascale
Levy, Gad
Lieberman, Ruth
Lindsey, Charles
Lorberau, Karen
Lowe, Lloyd
Lund, Thomas
Mahrt, Larry
Mellman, George
Milliff, Ralph
Mills, Richard
Morzel, Jan
Mote, Philip
Nickisch, LJ
Oltman-Shay, Joan
Ortland, David
Piper, Lee
Poplawski, Orion
Pruis, Matthew
Riggin, Dennis
Robins, Robert
Romeo, Donna
Schecter, David
Scott, Richard
Secan, James
Shay, Dana
Shay, David
Smith, Francis
Sparks, Jonathan
Spooner, Chad
Stamus, Peter
Stockwell, Robert
Switzer, George
Takemoto, Lena
Vadas-Arendt, Sharon
van Loon, Harry
Wan, Kam
Wang, Ling
Weber, Jacquelyn
Werne, Joseph
Williams, Bifford
Woodard, Martin

NWRA Support Staff

Susan Ball
Proposal Administrator
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 301 | e-mail: sue (at) nwra.com
 
Debbi Bardsley
Human Resources Administrator
G&A
 
John Begenisich
System Administrator
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 318 | e-mail: john (at) nwra.com
Software engineering; web applications; computer languages; relational databases; communications and computer security.
 
Mark Begenisich
Computer Technician
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 331 | e-mail: mbegenisich (at) nwra.com
 
Janet Biggs
Operations Manager
CoRA Division | e-mail: janet (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Alexandra Cherkassky
Accountant
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 217 | e-mail: alexandra (at) nwra.com
 
Holly Crow
Student Intern
Seattle Division | e-mail: holly (at) nwra.com
 
Venus de la Cruz
Accountant
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 333 | e-mail: venus (at) nwra.com
 
Talida Fodorean
Accountant
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 340 | e-mail: talida (at) nwra.com
 
Andrew Frahm
Office Assistant
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 200 | e-mail: frahm (at) cora.nwra.com
 
Bonnie Grebe
Consultant
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 231 | e-mail: bonbon (at) cora.nwra.com
Proposal preparation and submission for CoRA Division in Boulder.
 
Alice Gregory
Executive Assistant to the President
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 312
 
Karen Lorberau
Administrative Assistant
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 303 | e-mail: karen (at) nwra.com
 
Lloyd Lowe
Computer Center Manager, Scientific Programmer
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 321 | e-mail: lloyd (at) nwra.com
Ocean and Earth sciences, Instrumentation and software development. Computer programming; chemical oceanography, field analysis of water quality; noise exposure analysis.
 
Orion Poplawski
Computer Systems Manager
CoRA Division  |  (303) 415-9701 ext. 222 | e-mail: orion (at) cora.nwra.com
Computer and Network Administration, Software Development.
 
Donna Romeo
Contracts Administrator
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 220 | e-mail: donna (at) nwra.com
 
Lena Takemoto
Accountant
G&A  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 325
 
Jacquelyn Weber
Administrative Assistant
Seattle Division  |  (425) 556-9055 ext. 316 | e-mail: jackie (at) nwra.com
 

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