Bradley Gay

Bradley A. Gay received his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Nebraska in 2010. He 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 policy-making, More recently, Bradley received his doctorate in Earth Systems and Geo-information 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, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and NASA Langley Research Center. Bradley will assume his postdoctoral appointment at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California under the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP). As a member of Dr. Charles E. Miller’s laboratory, he will collaborate with international partners to generate circumpolar soil respiration and zero-curtain space-time maps with earth observation data and artificial intelligence as well as continue his research in permafrost carbon modeling to quantify drivers of change across the Arctic under warming climate regimes.