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Gregory Osterman

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive
M/S 233-200

Pasadena, CA 91109

Phone:

818.354.3641

Fax:

818.354.5148

Curriculum Vitae:

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Member of:

Tropospheric Composition

Education

  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, 1994.
  • MS in Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, 1990.
  • BS in Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 1987.

Professional Experience

  • September, 2009 - Present: Technologist, Scientist - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • September, 2005 - September, 2009: Senior Member Technical Staff - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • September, 1998 - September, 2005: Member Technical Staff - Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  • September, 1995 - September 1998: Postdoctoral Researcher -California Institute of Technology.
  • May - September, 1995: Research Scientist - University of Texas at Dallas.
  • January - May, 1995: Visiting Assistant Professor, East Carolina University - Greenville, NC.

Community Service

Member of the Scientific, Technical & Modeling Peer Review Advisory Group (STMPR) for the South Coast Air Quality Management District (2011 - 2017): Advised SCAQMD on the use of satellite data in their air quality management modeling and analysis. Participated in panel discussions designed to provide feedback on SCAMD modeling efforts.

Research Interests

  • Validation and quality control of satellite observations and Earth data products derived from satellite observations.
  • Utilizing satellite observations of Earth's air quality for applications and decision support.
  • Science support for the development of satellite retrieval algorithms.
  • Studying the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere using satellite, balloon-borne, ground-based and aircraft measurements.
  • Satellite mission operations.

Selected Awards

  • October 2020: Group Achievement for MUSES
  • September 2019: Group Achievement for OCO-2 Science
  • September 2018: Group Achievement for OCO-2
  • October 2016: Group Achievement for OCO-2 CFIS
  • October 2016: Group Achievement for OCO-2
  • September 2014: Group Achievement for TES
  • September 2014: Mariner for leadership in OCO-2 validation
  • September 2013: Discovery for exceptional summer student supervision
  • June 2012: Team for OCO-2 Science Implementation
  • May 2011: Team for ACOS/OCO-2 Science Implementation
  • July 2008: Group Achievement for TES Tiger Team
  • June 2007: Group Achievement for TES L2 algorithm

Selected Publications

  1. Osterman GB, Kulawik SS, Worden HM, Richards NAD, Fisher BM, Eldering A, Shephard MW, Froidevaux L, Labow G, Luo M, Herman RL, Bowman KW, Thompson AM, 2011, Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) measurements of the total, stratospheric and tropospheric column abundance of ozone, J. Geophys, Res. Atmos., 113/D15.
  2. Osterman GB, Heelis RA, Bailey GJ, 1998, Effects of wind-induced ionization layers on ionospheric electrodynamics, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 60/1, 107-113.
  3. Osterman GB, Salawitch RJ, Sen B, Toon GC, Stachnik RA, Pickett HM, Margita, JJ, Blavier JF, Peterson DB, 1997, Balloon-borne measurments of stratospheric radicals and their precursors: Implications for the production and loss of ozone, Geophysical Research Letters, 24/9, 1107-1110.
  4. Osterman GB, Heelis RA, Bailey GJ, 1995, Effects of zonal winds and metallic ions on the behavior of intermediate layers, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 100/A5, 7829-7838.
  5. Osterman GB, Heelis RA, Bailey GJ, 1994, Modeling the formation of intermediate layers at Arecibo latitudes, Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics, 99/A6, 11357-11365.
  6. Miyazaki K, et al., 2021, Global tropospheric ozone responses to reduced NOx emissions linked to the COVID-19 world-wide lockdowns, Science.
  7. Taylor T, et al., 2020, OCO-3 early mission operations and initial (vEarly) XCO2 and SIF retrievals, Remote Sens. Env.
  8. Jacobs N, Simpson WR, Wunch D, O’Dell CW, Osterman GB, et al., 2020, Quality controls, bias, and seasonality of CO2 columns in the boreal forest with Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, Total Carbon Column Observing Network, and EM27/SUN measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 13, 5033-5063.
  9. Stampoulis D., Reager JT, David CH, Konstantinos AM, Famiglietti JS, Farr TG, Trangsrud AR, Basilio RR,Osterman GB, 2019, Model-data fusion of hydrologic simulations and GRACE terrestrial water storage observations to estimate changes in water table depth, Advances in Water Resources, 128, 13-27.
  10. Wunch, D, Wennberg PO, Osterman G, et al., 2017, Comparisons of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) X-CO2 measurements with TCCON, Atmospheric Measurement Technology, 10, 2209-2238.
  11. Wunch, D, Wennberg PO, Toon GC, Connor BJ, Fisher B, Osterman GB, et al., 2011, A method for evaluation bias in global measurements of CO2 total columns from space, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 11, 23, 12317-12337.
  12. Eldering, A, Wennberg, PO, Crisp, D, Schimel, DS, Gunson MR, Chatterjee A, Liu J, Schwandner FM, Sun Y, O'Dell CW, Frankenberg C, Taylor T, Fisher B, Osterman, GB, et al., 2017, The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 early science investigations of regional carbon dioxide fluxes, Science, 358/6360.
  13. Schwandner FM, Gunson MR, Miller CE, Carn SA, Eldering A, Krings T, Verhulst KR, Schimel DS, Nguyen HM, Crisp D, O'Dell CW, Osterman GB, et al., 2017, Spaceborne detection of localized carbon dioxide sources, Science, 358/6360.

Projects

OCO-2 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory
OCO-3 - Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3
TES