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Annmarie Eldering

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4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 321-351

Pasadena, CA 91109

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818.354.4941

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818.354.5148

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Earth Science

OCO-3 Project Scientist

Biography

Dr. Annmarie Eldering is the Deputy Project Scientist for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and the Project Scientist for OCO-3.

Annmarie received her Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering Science from Caltech in 1994 with a focus on air pollution and its impacts on visibility in Los Angeles. She has been at JPL since 1999, adapting her knowledge of radiative transfer and light scattering to algorithm development for the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) as well as validation of AIRS data. She served as the TES Deputy PI and then PI between 2006 and 2010. That led to leadership roles as the Deputy Section Manager and Section Manager in Earth Atmospheric Sciences section before she joined the OCO–2 project in 2010. In her recent project and managements roles, she provides dynamic technical leadership for teams focused on the extraction of information about clouds, aerosols, and trace gases in the Earth's atmosphere. She is the Principal Investigator or a co-Investigator on a number of competitively awarded research tasks, and has worked on the development of a number of mission concepts.

Education

  • B.E., Chemical Engineering (Summa Cum Laude), Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York (1988)
  • M.S., Environmental Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology (1989)
  • Ph.D., Environmental Engineering Science, California Institute of Technology (1994)

Professional Experience

  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (1999 - present)
    • Project Scientist, OCO-3 (2013-present)
    • Deputy Project Scientist, OCO-2 (2010-present)
    • Manager, Earth Atmospheric Science Section (2008-2011)
    • Deputy Manager, Earth Atmospheric Science Section (2007-2008)
    • Group Supervisor, Tropospheric Emission Spectroscopy (2006 - 2007)
    • Research Scientist (2002 - 2006)
    • Scientist (1999 - 2002)

Research Interests

  • Remote sensing of CO2 for carbon cycle science research
  • Cloud characterization from remote sensing measurements
  • Air pollution measurements and science
  • Future earth science measurements

Selected Awards

  • NASA Group Achievement Award 2016 - OCO-2 Mission Planning and Science Team
  • NASA Group Achievement Award 2016 - OCO-2 Science Algorithm Team
  • NASA Outstanding Public Leadership Medal 2017

Selected Publications

  1. Eldering, A., Wennberg, P. O., Crisp, D., Schimel, D. S., Gunson, M. R., Chatterjee, A., ... & Frankenberg, C. (2017). The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes. Science, 358(6360), eaam5745.
  2. Chatterjee, A., Gierach, M. M., Sutton, A. J., Feely, R. A., Crisp, D., Eldering, A., ... & Schimel, D. S. (2017). Influence of El Niño on atmospheric CO2 over the tropical Pacific Ocean: Findings from NASA's OCO-2 mission. Science, 358(6360), eaam5776.
  3. Liu, J., Bowman, K. W., Schimel, D. S., Parazoo, N. C., Jiang, Z., Lee, M., ... & O'dell, C. W. (2017). Contrasting carbon cycle responses of the tropical continents to the 2015-2016 El Niño. Science, 358(6360), eaam5690.
  4. Schwandner, F. M., Gunson, M. R., Miller, C. E., Carn, S. A., Eldering, A., Krings, T., ... & O'dell, C. W. (2017). Spaceborne detection of localized carbon dioxide sources. Science, 358(6360), eaam5782.
  5. Worden, J. R., Doran, G., Kulawik, S., Eldering, A., Crisp, D., Frankenberg, C., ... & Bowman, K. (2017). Evaluation and attribution of OCO-2 XCO 2 uncertainties. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(7), 2759.
  6. Massie, S. T., Sebastian Schmidt, K., Eldering, A., & Crisp, D. (2017). Observational Evidence of 3D Cloud Effects in OCO‐2 CO2 retrievals. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
  7. Wunch, D., Wennberg, P. O., Osterman, G., Fisher, B., Naylor, B., Roehl, C. M., ... & Griffith, D. W. (2017). Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X CO 2 measurements with TCCON. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(6), 2209.
  8. Verma, M., Schimel, D., Evans, B., Frankenberg, C., Beringer, J., Drewry, D. T., ... & Eldering, A. (2017). Effect of environmental conditions on the relationship between solar‐induced fluorescence and gross primary productivity at an OzFlux grassland site. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 122(3), 716-733.
  9. Eldering, A., O'Dell, C. W., Wennberg, P. O., Crisp, D., Gunson, M. R., Viatte, C., ... & Chapsky, L. (2017). The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2: First 18 months of science data products. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(2), 549.
  10. Crisp, D., Pollock, H. R., Rosenberg, R., Chapsky, L., Lee, R. A., Oyafuso, F. A., ... & Eldering, A. (2017). The on-orbit performance of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) instrument and its radiometrically calibrated products. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 10(1), 59.

Projects

OCO-2 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory
CMS Flux (Carbon Monitoring System Flux)
Megacities Carbon Project
TES