People
- Alexander, Joan
- Anderson, Cody
- Baldwin, Mark
- Bardsley, Debbi
- Barnes, Graham
- Biggs, Janet
- Birch, Aaron
- Bracy, Connor
- Braun, Douglas
- Brown, William
- Bullock, Greg
- Cherkassky, Alexandra
- Crouch, Ashley
- Danioux, Eric
- Delisi, Donald
- Delisi, Bergen
- Dunkerton, Tim
- Dunkerton, Phil
- Early, Jeffrey
- Evans, Wayne
- Fentzke, Jonathan
- Fodorean, Talida
- Forero Shelton, Manu
- Frahm, Andrew
- Franke, Patricia
- Fremouw, Edward
- Fridman, Sergey
- Geiss, Andrew
- Gilchrist, Stuart
- Gregory, Alice
- Grimsdell, Alison
- Guerrero, Heidi
- Hausman, Mark
- Holt, Laura
- Janssen, Tim
- Javornik, Brenda
- Katsaros, Kristina
- Knepp, Dennis
- Kogan, Yefim
- Kraut, Shawn
- Kuczun, Nathan
- Kunze, Eric
- Lai, David
- Lawrence, Zachary
- Leka, KD
- Lelong, Pascale
- Levy, Gad
- Liepert, Beate
- Lindsey, Charles
- Lo, Fiona
- Lorberau, Karen
- MacDicken, Collin
- Mahrt, Larry
- Mak, Carter
- Manney, Gloria
- Martin, Charles
- Medsker, Laurie
- Mote, Philip
- Muschinski, Andreas
- Muschinski, Peter
- Muschinski, Lisa
- Naylor, Jason
- Nickisch, LJ
- Oltman-Shay, Joan
- Ortland, David
- Parkhurst, Cameron
- Pittman, Jasna
- Poplawski, Orion
- Pruis, Matthew
- Robins, Robert
- Rowe, Penny
- Rutherford, Blake
- Sage, Sam
- Schecter, David
- Scott, Richard
- Secan, James
- Sentman, Andrew
- Shay, Dana
- Smalls, Ken
- Smith, Francis
- Solorzano, Natalia
- Spooner, Chad
- Sun, Jielun
- Terr, Mitchell
- Thomas, Jeremy
- Tolkova, Elena
- Turnbow, Lauren
- Twohy, Cynthia
- Twomey, Susan
- Vadas, Sharon
- van Loon, Harry
- Wagner, Eric
- Webb, Lizzie
- Werne, Joseph
- Woodard, Martin
- Wortham, Cimarron

Vice President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Boulder, CO
alexand@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x204
Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Sciences. Atmospheric dynamics, waves, convection, global circulation modeling, mesoscale modeling, satellite, aircraft, balloon-borne observations, and middle atmosphere studies

Affiliate Scientist, Director
m.baldwin@exeter.ac.uk
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Sciences. The Arctic Oscillation, stratosphere-troposphere coupling, and propagation of planetary-scale waves in the troposphere and stratosphere.

Manager of Human Resources - Redmond, WA
debbi@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x213

Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
graham@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x234
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Space Physics. Magnetohydrodynamics, numerical modeling of space plasmas.

Affiliate Scientist
birch@mps.mpg.de
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Solar physics, local helioseismology, solar interior.

Vice President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Boulder, CO
dbraun@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x226
Personal website
Research interests: Space Physics - solar and astrophysics. Local helioseismology, solar interior.

Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
greg@nwra.com
(831) 582-4907
Curriculum vitae

Senior Accountant - Redmond, WA
alexandra@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x217

Affiliate Scientist
edanioux@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Inertia-gravity waves. Geophysical turbulence. Interaction between balanced and unbalanced motions. Mixed layer dynamics.

Founder, Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President, Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
Research interests: 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.

Vice President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Redmond, WA
tim@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x326
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Sciences Dynamic meteorology, atmospheric general circulation.

Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
jearly@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Mesoscale and large scale physical oceanography; the application of symmetry methods to geophysical fluid dynamics

Affiliate Scientist
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Affiliate Scientist
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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).

Manager of Accounting - Redmond, WA
talida@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x340

Founder, Emeritus
Personal website
Research interests: Near-Earth Space Science: ionospheric physics (satellite experiments & radiowave tomographic imaging) and radio propagation (scintillation observations & modeling).

Senior Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
sergey@nwra.com
(831) 582-4902
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Postdoctoral Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
sgilchrist@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x233
Curriculum vitae

Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
grimsdell@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x211
Curriculum vitae

Senior Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
markhausman@nwra.com
(831) 582-4903
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
laura@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x239
Curriculum vitae

Senior Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
dennis.knepp@nwra.com
(831) 582-4906
Curriculum vitae

Senior Research Scientist - San Diego, CA
ykogan@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Microphysics of clouds and precipitation, aerosol-cloud-precipitation interactions, parameterization of clouds and precipitation for mesoscale weather prediction and global climate models.

Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
shawn@nwra.com
831-655-4261
Curriculum vitae

Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
kunze@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Understanding and parameterizing the effects of smallscale ocean processes on large scales, including the impacts of internal waves, turbulence, fronts, double diffusion and stratified turbulence.

Sr. Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
dlai@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Ocean and Earth Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics. Turbulence, vortices, remote sensing.

Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
leka@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x219
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Space Physics. Solar physics, solar magnetic fields, sunspots and solar active regions, solar flares, polarimetry and instrumentation.

Senior Research Scientist, Director - Redmond, WA
pascale@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x336
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Ocean and Earth Sciences. Geophysical fluid dynamics; perturbation and asymptotic methods; numerical modeling.

Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
gad@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x324
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Sciences, Ocean and Earth Sciences

Affiliate
bgliepert@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: 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.

Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
lindsey@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x238
Curriculum vitae

Support Scientist - Redmond, WA
fiona@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x315
Curriculum vitae

Senior Research Scientist - Corvallis, OR
mahrt@nwra.com
(541) 754-7501
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Boundary layers and turbulence, evapotranspiration, air-sea interaction, bouyancy-driven slope flows, micrometeorology.

Senior Research Scientist - New Mexico
manney@nwra.com
505 414 8887
Curriculum vitae
Administrative Specialist - Contracts & Grants - Redmond, WA
laurie@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x331

Affiliate Scientist
pmote@coas.oregonstate.edu
Personal website
Research interests: Studies of clouds, water vapor, and radiation in the tropical upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
andreas@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x228
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Vice President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Monterey, CA
lj@nwra.com
(831) 582-4905
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Redmond, WA
Personal website
Research interests: 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

Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
ortland@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x309
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Atmospheric sciences. Atmospheric and mathematical science.

IT Systems Integration Engineer - Redmond, WA
cameron@nwra.com
Research interests: Python, Business Intelligence, Web Development, Computer Networking

Research Scientist - Alabama
jasna@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Stratosphere-troposphere exchange, atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, greenhouse gases, stratospheric humidity, airborne measurements, satellite observations, chemistry-climate modeling.

Technical Manager, Boulder - Boulder, CO
orion@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x222
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Computer and Network Administration, Software Development.

Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
matt@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Experience in data analysis, turbulence and mixed layer processes, and data-model comparison studies. Research projects ranging from studies of the near-shore coastal environment, to deep-sea hydrothermal vents, to sea-ice modeling and field projects in the Arctic, to aircraft wake vortices. Recent work has included the A380 wake separation study group and participation in the FAA's ReCat Phase I project to reduce aircraft wake separation.

Affiliate Scientist
rerscicomp@gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
penny@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x317
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: The interaction of clouds and trace gases with infrared radiation, particularly in Polar regions. Black carbon and other light-absorbing impurities in snow in Antarctica and the Chilean Andes. Scanning electron microscopy of ice crystals. Molecular dynamics calculations of ice.

Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
schecter@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x215
Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Research

Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
scott@nwra.com
Personal website
Research interests: Atmospheric Sciences, Fundamental Fluid Mechanics. Atmospheric Dynamics, Vortex Dynamics, Numerical Modeling, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics.

Senior Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
jim@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: 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.

Accounts Receivable, Senior Accountant - Redmond, WA
ken@nwra.com
(425) 556-9055 x218

Affiliate Engineer
Research interests: 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.

Senior Research Scientist - Monterey, CA
cmspooner@nwra.com
(831) 582-4904
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Instruments and Software, Statistical Signal Processing, Higher-Order Statistics, Cyclostationary Signals, and Automatic Signal Classification

Research Scientist - Redmond, WA
jeremy@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: 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.

Affiliate Scientist
e.tolkova@gmail.com
Personal website
Research interests: Research areas: Tsunami dynamics; numerical modeling; time-series analysis

Senior Research Scientist - San Diego, CA
twohy@nwra.com
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Aerosol-cloud-climate interactions, dust and biological aerosol particles, aerosol and cloud physics measurement, particularly from aircraft

Senior Research Scientist - Boulder, CO
vasha@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x202
Curriculum vitae | Personal website
Research interests: 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.

Support Engineer - Boulder, CO
wagneric@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x221
Curriculum vitae

Vice President, Senior Research Scientist, Director - Boulder, CO
werne@cora.nwra.com | werne@nwra.com
(303) 415-9701 x207
Personal website
Research interests: 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.

Senior Research Scientist - Corvaliss, OR
mfw@nwra.com
x203
Curriculum vitae
Research interests: Space physics. Helioseismology, the solar interior, astrophysics.