Dr. Mark R. Schoeberl, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is the 1998 recipient of the William Nordberg Memorial Award for his Earth science research. Schoeberl is the fifth recipient since the Goddard honor was first introduced in 1994, and is recognized for his development of a powerful new analysis method that allows the estimation of stratospheric ozone loss using a limited amounts of data.
Nordberg, who was the Director of Space Applications at Goddard, was a pioneer in using remote sensing to investigate Earth and its environment. The William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Science is presented annually to a Goddard employee who best exhibits qualities of broad scientific perspective, enthusiastic programmatic and technical leadership on the national and international levels, wide recognition by peers, and substantial research accomplishments in understanding Earth System processes.
Schoeberl is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Meteorological Society. He is the current President of the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union and the EOS Chemistry Project Scientist and Project Scientist for Goddard's highly successful Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite.
The Earth Observer and the EOS community wish to congratulate Dr. Schoeberl on this outstanding achievement.