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Brendan Fisher

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)

Research Interests

Planetary Atmospheres: thermal structure, dynamics, composition of terrestrial and gas giants.
Infrared instrumentation for ground and spacecraft application: design, development and use.
Applied computing: algorithm and numerical methods, particularly atmospheric sounding, data visualization, user interfaces, hardware control.

Projects

TES
TES (Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer) is one of four science instruments aboard NASA's Aura satellite, which was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California on July 15, 2004.

OCO-2 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) is a mission designed to make precise, time-dependent global measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) from an Earth orbiting satellite.

Professional Experience

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996 - Present)

Research Scientist, Flight Science Experiments Section, Tropospheric Emission Spectroscopy Element (2002 - Present)
Scientist, Planetary and Life Detection Section, Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Element(1999 - 2002)
Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar (1998 - 1999)
NASA/NRC Resident Research Associate (1996 - 1998)

University of Rochester, Instructor/Fellow (1995 - 1996)

Selected Awards

NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Project (2005)
NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument and ground data system development teams (2005)
Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Team (2005)
Fellow, National Research Council Research Associates Program (1996 - 1998)
Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graduate Student Researchers Program, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters (1991 - 1994)
Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Grant Program, California Space Institute, Scripps Institute of Oceanography (1990)
Studentship Award, American Astronomical Society, Solar Physics Division (1990)
1st Place, Senior Physics Lab Project, University of California, San Diego (1986)

Selected Publications

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.
Yanamandra-Fisher, P.A., G.S. Orton, B.M. Fisher, A. Sanchez-Lavega (2001) Saturn's 5.2-Âµm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability. Icarus, 150, 189-193.
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.
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.
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-Âµm hot spots at the Galileo Probe entry latitude. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 23051-23,069.
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.

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