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Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109-8099
USA

Phone: (818) 354-8167
Fax: (818) 393-6720
Email: llf@pacific.jpl.nasa.gov

Dr. Lee-Lueng Fu is NASA Project Scientist for the joint U.S./French TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 Missions. He received the B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University (1972) and the Ph.D. in Oceanography from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (1980). He is currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Administratively, he is the Head of the Ocean Science Research Element of the Division of Earth and Space Sciences of JPL.

Dr. Fu's research has been focused on the dynamics of ocean waves and currents ranging from internal gravity waves (scales of meters to kilometers) to the general circulation of the ocean (scales of hundreds to thousands of kilometers). Since 1988 he has led an international team of oceanographers and geophysicists in the development of precision altimetric measurement of ocean surface topography from TOPEX/Poseidon and its follow-on, Jason-1, resulting in a decade-long record for the study of large-scale ocean variability ranging from the El Nino Southern Oscillation to global mean sea level variations.

Dr. Fu is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, and a recipient of the Verner E. Suomi Award of the American Meteorological Society for his leadership and contributions in satellite altimetry and its applications to earth sciences. He is also the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales Medal for his contributions to the TOPEX/Poseidon Mission.