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Susan Kulawik

Education
  • B.S. in Physics, Ohio State University (1991)
  • M.S. in Physics, University of Michigan (1995)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Michigan (1999)
Research Interests
  • Constraint and spectral window selection for optimal retrievals of atmospheric parameters from radiance data
  • Error analysis for retrievals of atmospheric parameters from radiance data
Projects

TES Icon 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.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1999-Present)
    • Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) project (1999-Present)
    • Senior Member of the Technical Staff (2002-Present)
  • Raytheon ITSS, Senior Physics Engineer (1999-2003)
Selected Awards
  • NASA Board Award for NTR no. 35212: "TES Level 2 Subsystem Software" (2006)
  • Raytheon Team Award (2001)
Selected Publications
  1. Kulawik, S.S., G. Osterman, D.B.A. Jones, and K.W. Bowman (2006), Calculation of altitude-dependent Tikhonov constraints for TES nadir retrievals, Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (5), 1334-1342.
  2. Kulawik, S.S., H. Worden, G. Osterman, M. Luo, R. Beer, D.E. Kinnison, K.W. Bowman, J. Worden, A. Eldering, M. Lampel, T. Steck, and C.D. Rodgers (2006), TES atmospheric profile retrieval characterization: An orbit of simulated observations, Ieee Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 44 (5), 1324-1333.
  3. Kulawik, S.S., J. Worden, A. Eldering, K.W. Bowman, M. Gunson, G. Osterman, L. Zhang, S.A. Clough, M. Shephard, R. Beer, "Implementation of Cloud Retrievals for Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Atmospheric Retrievals - part I description and characterization of errors on trace gas retrievals," Accepted to J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 2006.
  4. Worden, John; Kulawik, Susan S.; Shephard, Mark W.; Clough, Shepard A.; Worden, Helen; Bowman, Kevin; Goldman, Aaron, Predicted errors of tropospheric emission spectrometer nadir retrievals from spectral window selection, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 109(D9), 15 May 2004
  5. S. E. Sund and D. Axelrod. 2000. Actin Dynamics at the Living Cell Submembrane Imaged by Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Photobleaching. Biophysical Journal, 79: 1655-1669 (2000)
  6. S. E. Sund, J. A. Swanson, and D. Axelrod. 1999. Cell membrane orientation visualized by polarized total internal reflection fluorescence. Biophysical Journal, 77: 2266-2283 (1999)

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