- Home
- Missions
- Data
- Communications
- People
- The Earth Observer Newsletter
Recent Imagery
You will be directed to the NASA Visible Earth webpage when you select Images by Mission below, or click on the images at right that are randomly generated to represent four out of all possible topics.
You are here
Personnel
Image:
Dr. Steven Platnick
EOS Senior Project Scientist
Email: steven.e.platnick@nasa.gov
Mailing Address:
Code 610
NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
USA
Bio:
Steven Platnicks research includes theoretical / experimental studies of satellite, aircraft, and ground-based cloud remote sensing. He has been involved extensively with remote sensing field studies, including use of the MODIS Airborne Simulator instrument flown on the NASA ER-2 along with flight scientist roles during the MAST, ARMCAS, FIRE-ACE, SAFARI-2000, CRYSTAL-FACE, and TC4 field campaigns. He is a member of the MODIS Atmosphere Science Team working on operational cloud optical and microphysical products, and a member of the ACE and CLARREO study teams.
His collaborations with the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center began in 1993, most recently as a member of the Climate and Radiation Branch in the Laboratory for Atmospheres (2002) and as acting head of the EOS Project Science Office (2008). Prior to that, he was a research associate professor in the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County - an affiliation begun in 1996. During this time he led the development of a comprehensive set of graduate-level atmospheric physics courses within the Department of Physics of which he taught several. He previously held a National Research Council Research Associate position at the NASA Ames Research Center as well as a research and development position at the Hewlett-Packard Co. for six years. His work with Hewlett-Packard included two years as a visiting faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at North Carolina A&T State University.
He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Duke University and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively, and a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences from the University of Arizona.