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Brendan Fisher

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
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Brendan Fisher
Science Team
Instrument Calibration

Education
  • B.S. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1987)
  • M.S. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1989)
  • Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, San Diego (1994)

Research Interests
  • Planetary Atmospheres: thermal structure, dynamics, composition of terrestrial and gas giants.
  • Infrared instrumentation for ground and spacecraft application: design, development and use.
  • Applied computing: algorithm and numerical methods, particularly atmospheric sounding, data visualization, user interfaces, hardware control.

Professional Experience
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1996 - Present)
    • Research Scientist, Flight Science Experiments Section, Tropospheric Emission Spectroscopy Element (2002 - Present)
    • Scientist, Planetary and Life Detection Section, Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Element(1999 - 2002)
    • Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar (1998 - 1999)
    • NASA/NRC Resident Research Associate (1996 - 1998)
  • University of Rochester, Instructor/Fellow (1995 - 1996)

Selected Awards
  • NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Project (2005)
  • NASA Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer instrument and ground data system development teams (2005)
  • Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award as a member of the Aura Team (2005)
  • Fellow, National Research Council Research Associates Program (1996 - 1998)
  • Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Graduate Student Researchers Program, Office of Space Science, NASA Headquarters (1991 - 1994)
  • Fellow, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Grant Program, California Space Institute, Scripps Institute of Oceanography (1990)
  • Studentship Award, American Astronomical Society, Solar Physics Division (1990)
  • 1st Place, Senior Physics Lab Project, University of California, San Diego (1986)

Selected Publications
  1. Verma, Sunita, John Worden, Brad Pierce, Dylan B. A. Jones, Jassim Al-Saadi, Folkert Boersma, Kevin Bowman, Annmarie Eldering, Brendan Fisher, Line Jourdain, Susan Kulawik1 and Helen Worden, Ozone Production in Boreal Fire Smoke Plumes using observations from the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer and the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2008JD010108, October 3, 2008, in press.
  2. Shephard, M. W, R. L. Herman, B. M. Fisher, K. E. Cady-Pereira, S. A. Clough, V. H. Payne, et al., Comparison of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Nadir Water Vapor Retrievals with In Situ Measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S24, doi:10.1029/2007JD008822, May 16, 2008.
  3. Osterman, G., S.S. Kulawik, H.M. Worden, N.A.D. Richards, B.M. Fisher, A. Eldering, M.W. Shephard, L. Froidevaux, G. Labow, M. Luo, R.L. Herman, K.W. Bowman, and A. M. Thompson, Validation of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) Measurements of the Total, Stratospheric and Tropospheric Column Abundance of Ozone, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S16, doi:10.1029/2007JD008801, May 7, 2008.
  4. Shephard, M. W., H. M. Worden, K. E. Cady-Pereira, M. Lampel, M. Luo, K. W. Bowman, E. Sarkissian, R. Beer, D. M. Rider, D. C.Tobin, H. E. Revercomb, B. M. Fisher, D. Tremblay, S. A. Clough, G. B. Osterman, M. Gunson, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer Nadir Spectral Radiance Comparisons, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D15S05, doi:10.1029/2007JD008856, April 22, 2008.
  5. Luo, M., C. Rinsland, B. Fisher, G. Sachse, G. Diskin, J. Logan, H. Worden, S. Kulawik, G. Osterman, A. Eldering, R. Herman and M. Shephard, TES carbon monoxide validation with DACOM aircraft measurements during INTEX-B 2006, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D24S48, doi:10.1029/2007JD008803, December 20, 2007.
  6. Jourdain, L., H. M. Worden, J. R. Worden, K. Bowman, Q. Li, A. Eldering, S. S. Kulawik, G. Osterman, K. F. Boersma, B. Fisher, C. P. Rinsland, R. Beer, M. Gunson, Tropospheric vertical distribution of tropical Atlantic ozone observed by TES during the Northern African biomass burning season, Geophys. Res. Lett., 34, L04810, doi:10.1029/2006GL028284, February 23, 2007.
  7. Worden, H. M., J. Logan, J. R. Worden, R. Beer, K. Bowman, S. A. Clough, A. Eldering, B. Fisher, M. R. Gunson, R. L. Herman, S. S. Kulawik, M. C. Lampel, M. Luo, I. A. Megretskaia, G. B. Osterman, M. W. Shephard, Comparisons of Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer (TES) ozone profiles to ozonesodes: methods and initial results, J. Geophys. Res., 112, D03309, doi:10.1029/2006JD007258, February 15, 2007.
  8. Zhang, L., D. J. Jacob, K. W. Bowman, J. A. Logan, S. Turquety, R. C. Hudman, Q. Li, R. Beer, H. M. Worden, J. R. Worden, C. P. Rinsland, S. S. Kulawik, M. C. Lampel, M. W. Shephard, B. M. Fisher, A. Eldering, and M. A. Avery, Continental outflow of ozone pollution as determined by O3-CO correlations from the TES satellite instrument, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L18804, doi:10.1029/2006GL026399, September 21, 2006.
  9. Worden, J., K. Bowman, D. Noone, R. Beer, S. Clough, A. Eldering, B. Fisher, A. Goldman, M. Gunson, R. Herman, S. Kulawik, M. Lampel, M. Luo, G. Osterman, C. Rinsland, C. Rodgers, S. Sander, M. Shephard, and H. Worden, Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer observations of the tropospheric HDO/H 2 O ratio: Estimation approach and characterization, J. Geophys. Res., 111, D16309, doi:10.1029/2005JD006606, August 25, 2006.
  10. de la Torre Juarez, M., B.M. Fisher, G.S. Orton. (2002) Large Scale Geostrophic Winds with a full representation of the Coriolis force: an application to IR observation of the Upper Jovian Troposphere. Geophys. Astrophys. Fluid Dynamics, 96, 87-114.
  11. Yanamandra-Fisher, P.A., G.S. Orton, B.M. Fisher, A. Sanchez-Lavega (2001) Saturn's 5.2-µm Cold Spots: Unexpected Cloud Variability. Icarus, 150, 189-193.
  12. Sanchez-Lavega, A., G.S. Orton, R. Morales, J. Lecacheux, F. Colas, B. Fisher, P. Fukumura-Sawata, W. Golisch, D. Griep, C. Kaminski, K. Baines, K. Rages, R. West (2001). The Merger of two giant anticyclones in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Icarus, 149, 491-495.
  13. G. S. Orton, B. M. Fisher, S. T. Stewart, A. J. Friedson, J. L. Ortiz, M. Marinova, W. Hoffmann, J. Hora, M. Ressler, S. Hinkley, V. Krishnan, M. Masanovic, J. Tesic., A. Tziolas, and K. Parija. 1998. The Galileo Probe entry site: Characteristics of the Galileo Probe entry site from earth-based remote sensing observations. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 22791-22,814.
  14. J. L. Ortiz, G. S. Orton, A. J. Friedson, S. T. Stewart, B. M. Fisher, and J. R. Spencer 1998. Evolution and persistence of 5-µm hot spots at the Galileo Probe entry latitude. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 23051-23,069.
  15. Precise Ground-Based Solar Photometry and Variations of Total Irradiance. Chapman, G.A., Herzog, A.D., Lawrence, J.K, Walton, S.R., Hudson, H.S., Fisher, B.M. (1992) J. Geophys. Res., 97, 8211-8219.
   
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