TEMPEST Team

Steven Reising, PI

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office: B113 Engineering
Phone: 970-491-2228
Fax: 970-491-2249
E-mail: Steven.Reising@Colostate.edu

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

V. Chandrasekar, DEPUTY PI

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office: B117 Engineering
Phone: 970-491-7981
Fax: 970-491-2249
E-mail: Chandrasekaran.Venkatachalam@Colostate.edu

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
  • MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University
  • PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Colorado State University

Christian Kummerow, Lead Scientist

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office:  109 ACRC
Phone: 970-491-7473
Fax:  970-491-8449
E-mail: Christian.Kummerow@colostate.edu

  • AB in Physics, University of California — Berkeley
  • PhD in Atmospheric Physics, University of Minnesota

Shannon Brown, Project Scientist

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Address:  4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 168-314, Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-393-0773
E-mail: Shannon.T.Brown@jpl.nasa.gov

  • BS in Meteorology, Pennsylvania State University
  • MS in Atmospheric Science, University of Michigan
  • PhD in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, University of Michigan

John Oswald, Project Manager

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Address:  M/S 321-356, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109
E-mail:   John.Oswald@jpl.nasa.gov

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Pekka Kangaslahti, Instrument Manager

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Address: M/S 168-314, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-393-4492
E-mail: Pekka.Kangaslahti@jpl.nasa.gov

  • MS in Electrical Engineering, Aalto University
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Aalto University

Wesley Berg, CO-I

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office:  106 ACRC
Phone: 970-207-0724
Fax: (970) 491-8449
E-mail: Wesley.Berg@colostate.edu

  • BS in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
  • MS in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
  • PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado

Sid Ahmed Boukabara, Collaborator

Affiliation:  NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR)
Address:  5830 University Research Ct., College Park, MD 20740
Phone: 301-683-3492
E-mail: Sid.Boukabara@noaa.gov

  • BS in Signal Processing, Ecole Nationale d’Aviation Civile (ENAC), Toulouse, France
  • MS in Image and Signal Processing, National Polytechnic Institute, Toulouse, France
  • PhD in Remote Sensing, Paris University, Paris, France

J. Christine Chiu, CO-I

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office:  203 ACRC
Phone:  970-491-8410
E-mail: Christine.Chiu@colostate.edu

  • BS in Atmospheric Science, National Central University, Taiwan
  • MS in Atmospheric Science, National Central University, Taiwan
  • PhD in Atmospheric Sciences – Purdue University

Greg Elsaesser, CO-I

Affiliation:  Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), Columbia University/NASA
Office: 2880 Broadway, Room 632, New York, New York 10025
Phone: 212-678-5596
E-mail: Gregory.S.Elsaesser@nasa.gov

  • BS in Geography / Atmospheric Sciences Track, Ohio State University
  • MS in Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University
  • PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University

Todd Gaier, CO-I

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Address:  MS 180-740, 4800 Oak Grove Dr.,Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-354-4402
E-mail: Todd.Gaier@jpl.nasa.gov

  • BS in Physics, Tufts University
  • PhD in Physics, University of California – Santa Barbara

John Knaff, Collaborator

Affiliation:  NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research, CIRA/Colorado State University
Office: 112 CIRA
Phone: 970-491-8881
Fax: 970-491-8241
E-mail: John.Knaff@noaa.gov

  • BS in Meterology, Texas A&M University
  • MS in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
  • PhD in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University

Boon Lim, CO-I

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Address: MS 168-314, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-354-3068
E-mail: Boon.H.Lim@jpl.nasa.gov

  • BS in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • MS in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan
  • PhD in Geoscience and Remote Sensing, University of Michigan

Sharmila Padmanabhan, CO-I

Affiliation:  NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Address: M/S 183-710, 4800 Oak Grove Dr.,Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818-393-9021
Fax: 818-393-5065
E-mail: Sharmila.Padmanabhan@jpl.nasa.gov

  • BS in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, University of Mumbai, India
  • MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  • PhD in Electrical Engineering, Colorado State University

Kristen Rasmussen, CO-I

Affiliation:  Colorado State University
Office:
Phone:  970-491-8983
E-mail: k.rasmussen@colostate.edu

  • BS in Music, Jazz trumpet emphasis, The University of Miami
  • BS in Meteorology and Math, The University of Miami
  • MS in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Washington
  • PhD in Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Washington

Wei-Kuo Tao, Collaborator

Affiliation:  NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Address:  Code 612, 8800 Greenbelt Rd, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Phone: 301-614-6269
E-mail: Wei-Kuo.Tao-1@nasa.gov

  • BS in Atmospheric Physics, National Central University
  • MS in Computer Science, The Johns Hopkins University
  • MS and PhD in Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois