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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.