Bradley Gay

Bradley A. Gay received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Nebraska in 2010 and was employed as an ecological conservation and vegetation management specialist focused on tall-grass prairie restoration and invasive species mitigation throughout his undergraduate tenure. Thereafter, he received his Master of Science in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins University in 2012 and gained research and industry experience within the sectors of environmental and power markets, wildlife trafficking, international conservation, and environmental policymaking. More recently, he received his doctorate in Earth Systems and Geoinformation Sciences from George Mason University in 2023, gaining academic and research experience as a graduate teaching assistant and research fellow at George Mason University, Future Earth, and NASA (GSFC, LARC). Presently, he is a member of Charles E. Miller’s lab and the Carbon Cycle and Ecosystems Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. While serving his NASA Postdoctoral Program appointment at JPL, he developed a physics-informed data-driven AI framework to capture, simulate, and project cryospheric memory in the form of the permafrost carbon feedback using in situ (i.e., ABoVE/USGS/JPL field campaigns, FLUXNET/NEON flux towers), airborne remote sensing (i.e., AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR), and process-based model outputs (i.e., TCFM-Arctic, SIBBORK-TTE). In addition, he is collaborating with scientists at NASA (JPL, GSFC, AFRC), ESA/ESRIN, DLR, and MPI partners to generate circumpolar zero-curtain space-time maps with earth observation data (e.g., Sentinel-1, TROPOMI, OCO-2, NISAR, SBG), numerical models,  information theory, and quantum AI to quantify the causal links and feedback drivers of change across the Circumpolar Arctic under warming climate regimes.