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Brendan Fisher

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 183-601

Pasadena, CA 91109

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818.354.2785

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818.354.5148

Curriculum Vitae:

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Tropospheric Composition

Biography

Brendan Fisher is a member of the Tropospheric Composition Group in the Earth Science Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is member of the OCO-2 and OCO-3 science and validation teams. As part of the OCO-2 project, he is intimately involved in the atmospheric retrieval of XCO2 algorithm and validation of the product. For OCO-3, Brendan is the Science Operations Lead and is the primary interface between the mission operations team and the science implementation team. Additionally, Brendan is responsible for maintaining the OCO-3 SAM/TG list, implementing new observation sites and adjusting strategies to assist coordination with community science, validation, and calibration activities. Brendan is also a member of the science implementation team and is involved in nearly all aspects of the algorithm development. Brendan has extensive experience with flight projects from early build to on-orbit operations, instrument calibration and validation, remote sensing, and atmospheric retrieval algorithms.

Education

  • B.S. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1987)
  • M.S. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1989)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1994)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996 - Present)
    • OCO-3 Science Operations Lead (2019-present)
    • OCO-3 Science Implementation Team (2017-present)
    • TES Instrument Scientist (2016-2021)
    • OCO-2 Science and Validation Teams (2009-present)
    • Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) Calibration, Validation, and Science Teams (2006-2009)
    • Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) project (2000 - 2019)
    • Mars 98 Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander (1999-2000)
    • Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar (1998 - 1999)
    • NASA/NRC Resident Research Associate (1996 - 1998)
  • University of Rochester, Instructor/Fellow (1995 - 1996)

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric carbon cycles
  • Remote Sensing and Atmospheric measurement
  • Validation and Calibration of remote sensing instruments
  • Data science: algorithm and numerical methods, data visualization, user interfaces, hardware control.
  • Infrared instrumentation for ground and spacecraft application: design, development and use.
  • Planetary Atmospheres: thermal structure, dynamics, composition of terrestrial and gas giants.

Selected Awards

  • JPL Team Award as a member of the OCO-3 science Team (2021)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the TES project team (2021)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the OCO-2 science Team (2020)
  • JPL Voyager Award for leadership during OCO-3 IOC (2019)
  • NASA Honors Award as member of the OCO-2 Science Team (2018)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the TES project team (2018)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the OCO-2 Science Team (2017)
  • NASA Honors Award as a member of the OCO-2 validation team (2016)
  • NASA Honors Award as a member of the OCO-2 L2 algorithm team (2016)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the TES instrument recovery team (2016)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the OCO-2 L2 algorithm development team (2016)
  • JPL Discovery Award relating to OCO-2 L2 algorithms (2016)
  • JPL Team Bonus Award as a member of the OCO-2 project (2015)
  • NASA Honors Award as a member of the TES team (2014)
  • JPL Team Award as a member of the OCO-2 project (2014)

Selected Publications

  1. Thomas E. T., O’Dell, C.W., Baker, D., Bruege, C, Chang, A., Chapsky. L., Chatterjee, A., Cheng, C., Chevallier, F., Crisp, D., Dang, L., Drouin, B., Eldering, A., Feng, L., Fisher, B., Fu, D., Gunson, M., Haemmerle, V., Keller, G., Kiel, M., Kuai, L., Kurosu, T., Lambert, A., Laughner, J., Lee, R., Liu, J., Mandrake, L., Marchetti, Y., McGarragh, G., Merrelli, A., Nelson, R.R., Osterman, G., Oyafuso, F., Palmer, P.I., Payne, V.H., Rosenberg, R., Somkuti, P., Spiers, G., To, C., Wennberg, P.O., Yu, S., Zong, J. Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2022-329, 2023
  2. Bell, E., O'Dell, C. W., Taylor, T.E., Merrelli, A., Nelson, R.R., Kiel, M., Eldering, A., Rosenberg, R., Fisher, B. 2023. Exploring bias in the OCO-3 snapshot area mapping mode via geometry, surface, and aerosol effects. Atmos. Meas. Tech, 16, 109-133. DOI:10.5194/amt-16-109-2023
  3. Taylor, T.E., O'Dell, C. W.,Crisp, D., Kuze, A., Lindqvist, H. Wennberg, P.P., Chatterjee, A., Gunson, M., Eldering, A., Fisher, B. 2022. An 11-year record of XCO2 estimates derived from GOSAT measurements using the NASA ACOS version 9 retrieval algorithm. Earth System Science Data, 15, 325-360. DOI: 10.5194/essd-14-325-2022
  4. Taylor, T.E., Eldering, A., Merrelli, A., Kiel, M., Somkuti, P., Cheng, C., Rosenberg, R., Fisher, B., Crisp, D., Basilio, R., Bennett, M., Cervantes, D., Chang, A., Dang, L., Frankenberg, C., Haemmerle, V.R., Keller, G.R., Kurosu, T., Laughner, J.L., Lee, R., Marchetti, Y., Nelson, R.R., O'Dell, C.W., Osterman, G., Pavlick, R., Roehl, C., Schneider, R., Spiers, G., To, C., Wells, C., Wennberg, P.O., Yelamanchili, A., ; Yu, S.S. 2020. OCO-3 early mission operations and initial (vEarly) XCO2 and SIF retrievals. Remote Sensing of Environment, 251, 112032. DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2020.112032
  5. Payne, V.H., Drouin, B.J., Oyafuso, F., Kuai, L. Fisher, B.M., Sunk, K., Nemchick, D., Crawford, T.J., Smyth, M., Crisp, D., Adkins, E. Hodges, J.T. Long, D.A., Mlawer, E.J., Merrelli, A., Lunny, E., O’Dell, C.W. 2020. Absorption coefficient (ABSCO) tables for the Orbiting Carbon Observatories: Version 5.1 (vol 255, 107217, 2020). J. of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer. 257, 10733. DOI: 10.1016/j.jqsrt.2020.107333
  6. O'Dell, C. W., Eldering, A., Wennberg, P. O., Crisp, D., Gunson, M. R., Fisher, B., Frankenberg, C., Kiel, M., Lindqvist, H., Mandrake, L., Merrelli, A., Natraj, V., Nelson, R. R., Osterman, G. B., Payne, V. H., Taylor, T. E., Wunch, D., Drouin, B. J., Oyafuso, F., Chang, A., McDuffie, J., Smyth, M., Baker, D. F., Basu, S., Chevallier, F., Crowell, S. M. R., Feng, L., Palmer, P. I., Dubey, M., Garcia, O. E., Griffith, D. W. T., Hase, F., Iraci, L. T., Kivi, R., Morino, I., Notholt, J., Ohyama, H., Petri, C., Roehl, C. M., Sha, M. K., Strong, K. and Sussmann, R., Te, Y., Uchino, O., Velazco, V. A. 2018. Improved retrievals of carbon dioxide from Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 with the version 8 ACOS algorithm, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 11, 6539-6576. DOI: 10.5194/amt-11-6539-2018
  7. Kiel, M., O'Dell, C. W., Fisher, B., Eldering, A., Nassar, R., MacDonald, C. G., Wennberg, P. O., 2018. How bias correction goes wrong: Measurement of XCO2 affected by erroneous surface pressure estimates. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 2019, 1-38. DOI: 10.5194/amt-2018-353
  8. Eldering, A., Wennberg, P.O., Crisp, D., Schimel, D.S., Gunson, M.R., Chatterjee, A., Liu, J., Schwandner, F. M., Sun, Y., O’Dell, C. W., Frankenberg, C., Taylor, T., Fisher, B., Osterman, G. B., Wunch, D., Hakkarainen, J., Tamminen, J. Weir, B. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes. 2017 Science, 358 (6360), eaam5745. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aam5745.
  9. Eldering, A., O’Dell, C.W., Wennberg, P.O., Crisp, D., Gunson, M.R., Viatte, C., Avis, C.,Braverman, A., Castano, R., Chang, A., Chapsky, L., Cheng, C., ; Connor, B., Dang, L. ,Doran, G., Fisher, B., Frankenberg, C., Fu, D.J., Granat, R., Hobbs, J., Lee, R.A.M., Mandrake, L., McDuffie, J., Miller, C.E., Myers, V., Natraj, V., O'Brien, D., Osterman, G.B., Oyafuso, F., Payne, V.H., Pollock, H.R., Polonsky, I., Roehl, C.M., Rosenberg, R., Schwandner, F., Smyth, M., Tang, V.V., Taylor, T.E., To, C., Wunch, D., Yoshimizu, J. 2017. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: first 18 months of science data products. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 2, 549-563. DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-549-2017
  10. Lee, R.A.M., O'Dell, C.W., Wunch, ., Roehl, C.M. , Osterman, G.B., Blavier, J.F. , Rosenberg, R, Chapsky, L., Frankenberg, C., Hunyadi-Lay, S.L., Fisher, B.M., Rider, D.M., Crisp, D.,; Pollock, R. Preflight Spectral Calibration of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, 55, 5, 2499-2508. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2645614.
  11. Crisp, D., Pollock, H.R., Rosenberg, R., Chapsky, L., Lee, R.A.M., Oyafuso, F.A., Frankenberg, C., O'Dell, C.W., Bruegge, C.J., Doran, G.B., Eldering, A., Fisher, B.M., Fu, D.J., Gunson, M.R., Mandrake, L., Osterman, G.B., Schwandner, F.M., Sun, K., Taylor, T.E., Wennberg, P.O., Wunch, D. The on-orbit performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) instrument and its radiometrically calibrated products. 2017. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 1, 59-81. 2017. DOI: 10.5194/amt-10-59-2017.
  12. Taylor, T.E., O’Dell, C.W., Frankeberg, C., Partain, P.T., Cronk, H.Q. Savtchenko, A., Nelson, R.R., Rosenthal, E.J., Chang, A.Y., Fisher, B., Osterman, G.B., Pollock, R.H., Crisp. D., Eldering, A., Gunson, M.R. 2016. Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 3, 973-989. DOI: 10.5194/amt-9-973-2016
  13. Fisher, B.M., Orton, G.S, Liu, J., Schneider, T., Ressler, M.E, Hoffman, W.F.: The organization of Jupiter’s upper tropospheric temperature structure and its evolution, 1996–1997. Icarus, 280, 268-277, 2016. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2016.07.016,
  14. Crisp, D., Chapsky, L., Eldering, A., Fisher, B., Frankenberg, C., Gunson, M. R., Lee, R., Osterman, G. B.,Oyafuso, F., O’Dell, C. W., Pollock, R., Taylor, T. E., Wennberg, P. O., and Wunch, D.: The On-Orbit Performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2), Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 59-81, 2017. http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/10/59/2017/, doi:10.5194/amt-10-59-2017
  15. Eldering, A., O’Dell, C. W., Wennberg, P. O., Crisp, D., Gunson, M. R., Viatte, C., Avis, C., Braverman, A.,Castano, R., Chang, A., Chapsky, L., Cheng, C., Connor, B., Dang, L., Doran, G., Fisher, B., Frankenberg,C., Fu, D., Granat, R., Hobbs, J., Lee, R. A. M., Mandrake, L., McDuffie, J., Miller, C. E., Myers, V., Natraj,V., O’Brien, D. M., Osterman, G. B., Oyafuso, F., Payne, V. H., Pollock, H. R., Polonsky, I., Roehl,C. M., Rosenberg, R., Schwandner, F., Smyth, M., Tang, V., Taylor, T. E., To, C.,Wunch, D., and Yoshimizu,J.: The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: First 18 months of Science Data Products, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 549-563, 2017. http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/10/549/2017/, doi:10.5194/amt-10-549-2017
  16. Wunch, D., Wennberg, P.O., Osterman, G., Fisher, B., Naylor, B., Roehl, C.M., O’Dell, C., Mandrake, L., Viatte, C., Griffith, D.W., Deutscher, N.M., Velazco, V.A., Notholt, J., Terringer, T., Pollard, D., Robinson, J., Morino, I., Uchino, O., Hase, F., Blumenstock, T., Kiel, M., Geist, D.G., Arnold, S.G., Strong, K., Medonca, J., Kivi, R., Heikkinen, P., Iraci, L., Podolske, J., Hillyard, P.W., Kawakami, S., Dubey, M.K., Parker, H.A., Sepulveda, E., Rdoriguez, O.E.G., Te, Y., Jeseck, P., Gunson, M.R., Crisp, D., Eldering, A.: Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) XCO2 measurements with TCCON. 2017. doi:10.5194/amt-2016-227.
  17. Taylor, T.E., O’Dell, C.W., Frankenberg, C., Partain, P.T., Cronk, H.Q., Savtchenko, A, Nelson, R.R, Rosenthal, E.J., Chang. A.Y., Fisher, B., Osterman, G.O., Pollock, R.H., Crisp, D., Eldering, A., Gunson, M.R.: Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) cloud screening algorithms: validation against collocated MODIS and CALIOP data. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 973-989, 2016, http://www.atmos-meas-tech.net/9/973/2016/, doi:10.5194/amt-9-973-2016
  18. H. Nguyen, G. Osterman, D. Wunch, C. O'Dell, L. Mandrake, P. Wennberg, B. Fisher, and R. Castano: A method for colocating satellite XCO2 data to ground-based data and its application to ACOS-GOSAT and TCCON. Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 2631-2644, doi:10.5194/amt-7-2631-2014, 2014
  19. H. Lindqvist, C. W. O'Dell, S. Basu, H. Boesch, F. Chevallier, N. Deutscher, L. Feng, B. Fisher, F. Hase, M. Inoue, R. Kivi, I. Morino, P. I. Palmer, R. Parker, M. Schneider, R. Sussmann, and Y. Yoshida: Does GOSAT capture the true seasonal cycle of carbon dioxide? Atmos. Chem. Phys., 15, 13023-13040, doi:10.5194/acp-15-13023-2015, 2015
  20. D. Wunch, P. O. Wennberg, G. C. Toon, B. J. Connor, B. Fisher, G. B. Osterman, C. Frankenberg, L. Mandrake, C. O'Dell, P. Ahonen, S. C. Biraud, R. Castano, N. Cressie, D. Crisp, N. M. Deutscher, A. Eldering, M. L. Fisher, D. W. T. Griffith, M. Gunson, P. Heikkinen, G. Keppel-Aleks, E. Kyrö, R. Lindenmaier, R. Macatangay, J. Mendonca, J. Messerschmidt, C. E. Miller, I. Morino, J. Notholt, F. A. Oyafuso, M. Rettinger, J. Robinson, C. M. Roehl, R. J. Salawitch, V. Sherlock, K. Strong, R. Sussmann, T. Tanaka, D. R. Thompson, O. Uchino, T. Warneke, and S. C. Wofsy: A method for evaluating bias in global measurements of CO2 total columns from space. Atmos. Chem. Phys., 11, 12317-12337, doi:10.5194/acp-11-12317-2011, 2011
  21. G.S. Orton, L.N. Fletcher, C.M. Lisse, P.W. Chodas, A. Cheng, P.A. Yanamandra-Fisher, K.H. Baines, B.M. Fisher, A. Wesley, S. Perez-Hoyos, I. de Pater, H.B. Hammel, M.L. Edwards, A.P. Ingersoll, O. Mousis, F. Marchis, W. Golisch, A. Sanchez-Lavega, A.A. Simon-Miller, R. Hueso, T.W. Momary, et al.: The atmospheric influence, size and possible asteroidal nature of the July 2009 Jupiter impactor. Icarus, Volume 211, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 587-602. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.010
  22. Leigh N. Fletcher, G.S. Orton, I. de Pater, M.L. Edwards, P.A. Yanamandra-Fisher, H.B. Hammel, C.M. Lisse, B.M. Fisher: The aftermath of the July 2009 impact on Jupiter: Ammonia, temperatures and particulates from Gemini thermal infrared spectroscopy. Icarus, Volume 211, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 568-586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.09.012
  23. Leigh N. Fletcher, G.S. Orton, O. Mousis, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, P.D. Parrish, P.G.J. Irwin, B.M. Fisher, L. Vanzi, T. Fujiyoshi, T. Fuse, A.A. Simon-Miller, E. Edkins, T.L. Hayward, J. De Buizer: Thermal structure and composition of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot from high-resolution thermal imaging. Icarus, Volume 208, Issue 1, July 2010, Pages 306-328 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.005
  24. L.N. Fletcher, G.S. Orton, P. Yanamandra-Fisher, B.M. Fisher, P.D. Parrish, P.G.J. Irwin: Retrievals of atmospheric variables on the gas giants from ground-based mid-infrared imaging. Icarus, Volume 200, Issue 1, March 2009, Pages 154-175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.019
  25. M. T. Coffey, J. W. Hannigan, A. Goldman, D. Kinnison, J. C. Gille, J. J. Barnett, L. Froidevaux, A. Lambert, M. Santee, N. Livesey, B. Fisher, S. S. Kulawik, R. Beer: Airborne Fourier transform spectrometer observations in support of EOS Aura validation. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D16S42, DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008833, 2008
  26. G. B. Osterman, S. S. Kulawik, H. M. Worden, N. A. D. Richards, B. M. Fisher, A. Eldering, M. W. Shephard, L. Froidevaux, G. Labow, M. Luo, R. L. Herman, K. W. Bowman, A. M. Thompson: Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) measurements of the total, stratospheric, and tropospheric column abundance of ozone. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S16, doi:10.1029/2007JD008801, 2008
  27. Reinhard Beer, Mark W. Shephard, Susan S. Kulawik, Shepard A. Clough, Annmarie Eldering, Kevin W. Bowman, Stanley P. Sander, Brendan M. Fisher, Vivienne H. Payne, Mingzhao Luo, Gregory B. Osterman, John R. Worden: First satellite observations of lower tropospheric ammonia and methanol. Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L09801, DOI: 10.1029/2008GL033642, 2008.
  28. Mark W. Shephard, Helen M. Worden, Karen E. Cady‐Pereira, Michael Lampel, Mingzhao Luo, Kevin W. Bowman, Edwin Sarkissian, Reinhard Beer, David M. Rider, David C. Tobin, Henry E. Revercomb, Brendan M. Fisher, Denis Tremblay, Shepard A. Clough, Gregory B. Osterman, Michael Gunson: Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer nadir spectral radiance comparisons. J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S05, DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008856, 2008
  29. M. Luo, C. Rinsland, B. Fisher, G. Sachse, G. Diskin, J. Logan, H. Worden, S. Kulawik, G. Osterman, A. Eldering, R. Herman, M. Shephard: TES carbon monoxide validation with DACOM aircraft measurements during INTEX‐B 2006. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S48,DOI: 10.1029/2007JD008803, 2007
  30. H. M. Worden, J. A. Logan, J. R. Worden, R. Beer, K. Bowman, S. A. Clough, A. Eldering, B. M. Fisher, M. R. Gunson, R. L. Herman, S. S. Kulawik, M. C. Lampel, M. Luo, I. A. Megretskaia, G. B. Osterman, M. W. Shephard: Comparisons of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) ozone profiles to ozonesondes: Methods and initial results. J. Geophys. Res., 112, D03309, DOI: 10.1029/2006JD007258, 2007
  31. John Worden, Kevin Bowman, David Noone, Reinhard Beer, Shepard Clough, Annmarie Eldering, Brendan Fisher, Aaron Goldman, Michael Gunson, Robert Herman, Susan S. Kulawik, Michael Lampel, Ming Luo, Gregory Osterman, Curtis Rinsland, Clive Rodgers, Stanley Sander, Mark Shephard, Helen Worden: J. Geophys. Res., 111, D16309, doi:10.1029/2005JD006606. 2006.
  32. de la Torre Juarez, M., B.M. Fisher, G.S. Orton. (2002) Large Scale Geostrophic Winds with a full representation of the Coriolis force: an application to IR observation of the Upper Jovian Troposphere. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 96, 87-114.
  33. Yanamandra-Fisher, P.A., G.S. Orton, B.M. Fisher, A. Sanchez-Lavega (2001) Saturn's 5.2-µm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability. Icarus, 150, 189-193.
  34. Sanchez-Lavega, A., G.S. Orton, R. Morales, J. Lecacheux, F. Colas, B. Fisher, P. Fukumura-Sawata, W. Golisch, D. Griep, C. Kaminski, K. Baines, K. Rages, R. West (2001). The Merger of two giant anticyclones in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Icarus, 149, 491-495.
  35. G. S. Orton, B. M. Fisher, S. T. Stewart, A. J. Friedson, J. L. Ortiz, M. Marinova, W. Hoffmann, J. Hora, M. Ressler, S. Hinkley, V. Krishnan, M. Masanovic, J. Tesic., A. Tziolas, and K. Parija. 1998. The Galileo Probe entry site: Characteristics of the Galileo Probe entry site from earth-based remote sensing observations. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 22791-22,814.
  36. J. L. Ortiz, G. S. Orton, A. J. Friedson, S. T. Stewart, B. M. Fisher, and J. R. Spencer 1998. Evolution and persistence of 5-µm hot spots at the Galileo Probe entry latitude. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 23051-23,069.
  37. Precise Ground-Based Solar Photometry and Variations of Total Irradiance. Chapman, G.A., Herzog, A.D., Lawrence, J.K, Walton, S.R., Hudson, H.S., Fisher, B.M. (1992) J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8211-8219.