David J. Diner

Principal Investigator
David.J.Diner@jpl.nasa.gov

David J. Diner is a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He received his BS degree in physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his MS and PhD degrees in planetary science from Caltech. He is the principal investigator of MISR, AirMSPI, AirMSPI-2, and MAIA. His research interests include atmospheric optics, remote sensing instrument development, and aerosol impacts on air quality and climate.

Kevin A. Burke

Project Manager
Kevin.A.Burke@jpl.nasa.gov

Kevin A. Burke is the project manager for MAIA at JPL. He received his BS degree in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and his MBA in entrepreneurship and finance from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He specializes in mechanical systems engineering and was previously a product delivery manager on the Mars Curiosity Rover and flight systems manager for the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerators project.

Stacey W. Boland

Project Systems Engineer
Stacey.W.Boland@jpl.nasa.gov

Stacey W. Boland is the project systems engineer for MAIA at JPL. She received her BS degree in physics from the University of Texas at Dallas and her MS and PhD degrees in mechanical engineering from Caltech. She has led numerous mission and instrument concept studies, and is a member of the Steering Committee for the 2017 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space.

John Pearson

Chief Engineer
John.C.Pearson@jpl.nasa.gov

John Pearson is the chief engineer for MAIA at JPL. He received his AB degree in physics from Harvard University and his MA and PhD degrees in physics from Duke University. Previously he was the instrument manager and lead system engineer for NASA’s contribution to the Heterodyne Instrument for the Far Infrared on the Herschel mission, deputy project scientist for Herschel, and the instrument manager for the Tunable Laser Spectrometer on the Mars Science Lander.

Karen Yuen

Mission Applications Lead
karen.yuen@jpl.nasa.gov

Karen Yuen is an Applied Science System Engineer at JPL. She received her BS degree with majors in Chemistry/Physics and French from St. Mary’s College of Notre Dame and pursued a MA degree in Scientific Journalism at New York University. She has spent the last two decades working on end user development and advocating for science communication with the general public. In her MAIA Mission Applications role, she works with an advisory team comprised of MAIA Co-Investigator Sina Hasheminassab (see bio below) and Rima Habre, Associate Professor in Environmental Health and Spatial Sciences at the University of Southern California.

Michael Brauer

michael.brauer@ubc.ca

Michael Brauer is a professor in the School of Population Health at the University of British Columbia and an affiliate professor at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. He received his BA degrees in biochemistry and environmental science from UC-Berkeley and his ScD degree in environmental health from Harvard. He is an advisor to the World Health Organization and a member of the Core Analytic Team for the Global Burden of Disease.

Carol Bruegge

Carol.J.Bruegge@jpl.nasa.gov

Carol Bruegge is a member of the technical staff at JPL specializing in instrument calibration. She received her BA and MS degrees in applied physics from the University of California-San Diego and her MS and PhD degrees in optical sciences from the University of Arizona. She is the principal investigator of the automated desert vicarious calibration test site at Railroad Valley, NV, and is a participating member of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites.

Larry Di Girolamo

Larry Di Girolamo is Blue Waters professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his BS degree in astrophysics from Queen’s University at Kingston, and his MS and PhD degrees in atmospheric and oceanic sciences from McGill University. He leverages his experience on cloud mask development and aerosol and cloud validation on the MISR and MODIS science teams.

Michael J. Garay

Michael.J.Garay@jpl.nasa.gov

Michael J. Garay is a research scientist at JPL, with experience in radiative transfer, aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithm development, and validation for MISR. He received his BA degree in English literature and his BS degree in physics from the University of Toledo and his MS degree in atmospheric science from UCLA.

Sina Hasheminassab

sina.hasheminassab@jpl.nasa.gov

Sina Hasheminassab is a Science System Engineer at JPL, specializing in air pollution monitoring and analysis. He oversees the MAIA ground-based air quality monitoring subsystem and liaises between the science, software system engineering, and algorithm development teams. He received his BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology and his MS and PhD degrees in Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Edward Hyer

Edward Hyer is a physical scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA. He received his BA degree in chemistry with sociology from Goucher College, and his MA and PhD degrees in geography from the University of Maryland. He is involved in a diverse array of research centered on observation and modeling of fires and smoke, and is a lead developer of the Fire Locating and Monitoring of Burning Emissions (FLAMBE) system.

Michael Jerrett

Michael Jerrett is a professor and chair of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He received his BSc degree in environmental science from Trent University, and his MA and PhD degrees in political environmental science and geography, respectively, from the University of Toronto. His expertise is in health impacts associated with exposure to air pollution and incorporation of satellite data products into PM exposure estimates.

Veljko Jovanovic

Veljko.M.Jovanovic@jpl.nasa.gov

Veljko Jovanovic is a senior member of the technical staff and technical group supervisor at JPL, with expertise in geometric calibration and digital photogrammetry. He received his BS degree in geodetic engineering from the University of Belgrade and his MS degree in geomatics engineering from Purdue University. He leads the MAIA science data system effort and is also deputy project manager for MISR.

Olga V. Kalashnikova

Olga.V.Kalashnikova@jpl.nasa.gov

Olga V. Kalashnikova is a research scientist at JPL, primarily working on applications of particle scattering theory and remote sensing observations to mapping aerosol properties using MISR and AirMSPI. She received her BS degree in physics from Kazakh State National University and her MS degree in physics and her PhD in astrophysical, planetary, and atmospheric science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Yang Liu

yang.liu@emory.edu

Yang Liu is an associate professor in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. He received his BS degree in environmental sciences and engineering from Tsinghua University, his MS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, and his PhD in environmental sciences and engineering from Harvard. He has developed PM2.5 exposure models using aerosol data from MISR, MODIS, and other satellite instruments and applied the results to health effects research.

Alexei I. Lyapustin

Alexei I. Lyapustin is a research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He received his BS and MS degrees from Moscow State University, and his PhD from Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. He is expert in remote sensing of aerosol and land surface bidirectional reflectance from satellite sensors, radiative transfer theory with gaseous absorption and polarization, and is lead developer of the Multi-Angle Implementation of Atmospheric Correction (MAIAC) algorithm.

Randall V. Martin

randall.martin@dal.ca

Randall V. Martin is a professor at Washington University in Saint Louis, and a professor and Arthur B. McDonald chair of research excellence at Dalhousie University. He received his BS degree in engineering from Cornell, his MSc degree in environmental science from Oxford, and his MS and PhD degrees in engineering sciences from Harvard. He is the principal investigator of the Surface PARTiculate mAtter Network (SPARTAN), and leads the production of satellite-derived PM2.5 estimates for the Global Burden of Disease.

Bart D. Ostro

Bart D. Ostro is currently an environmental epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis. Prior to that, he was the chief of the Air Pollution Epidemiology Section for the California EPA. He received his State of California Certification in environmental epidemiology and his PhD in economics from Brown University. He has been involved in setting air quality standards and conducting epidemiologic studies around the world.

Beate Ritz

brtiz@ucla.edu

Beate Ritz is the current President of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE). She is a professor of epidemiology at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health with coappointments in Environmental Health Sciences and Neurology at UCLA. She received her MD degree and doctorate in medical sociology from the University of Hamburg, and her MPH and PhD in epidemiology from UCLA. Her primary research focuses on air pollution and adverse birth outcomes and child health.

Joel Schwartz

Joel Schwartz is a professor of environmental epidemiology in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He received his PhD in theoretical physics from Brandeis University and his MD from the University of Basel. His research focuses on health impacts of air pollution, novel time-series and case-crossover methodologies, and development of geospatial air pollution models using satellite (MODIS and MISR) data.

Jun Wang

jun-wang-1@uiowa.edu

Jun Wang is a professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Iowa. He received his BS degree in atmospheric dynamics from Nanjing Institute of Meteorology, his MS degree in mesoscale modeling from Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD in atmospheric sciences from the University of Alabama–Huntsville. He has been studying PM air quality through a combination of satellite data (including MODIS and MISR), GEOS-Chem, and WRF-Chem.

Feng Xu

fengxu@ou.edu

Feng Xu is a professor in the School of Meteorology at the University of Oklahoma, where he is developing and prototyping algorithms for coupled aerosol property and lower boundary retrievals for MAIA using MISR and AirMSPI data. He received his BS degree in thermal engineering and his MS degree in mechanical engineering from Shanghai University for Science and Technology, and his PhD in physics from the University of Rouen.

Ann Dillner

University of California Davis

Araya Asfaw

Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

Caroline D’Angelo

U.S. Department of State

Chien-Cheng Jung

China Medical University, Taiwan

Christian L'Orange

Colorado State University

Christina Isaxon

Lund University, Sweden

Ebba Malmqvist

Lund University, Sweden

Fuyuen Yip

Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Janine Wichmann

University of Pretoria, South Africa

Jeffrey Blair

AethLabs

John Langstaff

Environmental Protection Agency

Katherine Swanson

U.S. Agency for International Development

Kembra Howdeshell

National Institutes of Health

Kristy Langerman

University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Lotta Mayana

South African Weather Service

Mark Nieuwenhuijsen

ISGlobal, Spain

Massimo Stafoggia

Lazio Regional Health Service, Italy

Meredith Franklin

University of Toronto

Ming-Tsang Wu

Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan

Ming-Yeng Lin

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Pei-Chen Lee

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan

Qiang Zhang

Tsinghua University, China

Rebecca Garland

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

Richard Kleidman

AirPhoton

Sagnik Dey

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India

Silvia Barberini

ARPA Lazio, Italy

Vanes Poluzzi

ARPAE Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Victor Novack

CLALIT

Yinon Rudich

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Yoav Schechner

Technion Israel Institute of Technology