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Business Administration Group - 3812
Supervisor: Jason Dawson, 818.393.2936, Jason.T.Dawson@jpl.nasa.gov
Secretary: Sandra Martinez, 818.354.2767, Sandra.D.Martinez@jpl.nasa.gov
The Business Administration Group oversees all aspects of business operations within the Section with emphasis on financial management, human resources and administrative support.
Project Engineering Group - 382A
Supervisor: Carl Bruce, 818.354.5480, Carl.F.Bruce@jpl.nasa.gov
This group is made up of Technical Managers responsible for the delivery of significant elements of both instrument projects and mission projects. They have leadership, technical, cost, and schedule responsibilities.
AVIRIS & AirMISR - 382B
Supervisor: Robert Green, 818.354.9136, Robert.O.Green@jpl.nasa.gov
This group designs, builds, tests, calibrates, operates, and maintains AVIRIS and AirMISR airborne systems. The group also performs data processing and analysis.
Instrument Systems Engineering & Validation - 382C
Supervisor: Alfred Nash, 818.393.2639, Alfred.E.Nash@jpl.nasa.gov
This group integrates, tests, validates, calibrates, and operates space-borne, airborne, and earth-based scientific instruments.
Life Detection & Sample Handling Technologies - 382D
Supervisor: Michael Hecht (Acting), 818.354.2774, Michael.H.Hecht@jpl.nasa.gov
In Situ Payloads - 382E
Supervisor: Arvid Croonquist, 818.354.3301, Arvid.P.Croonquist@jpl.nasa.gov
The group provides instrument managers and instrument systems engineers for in situ instruments; currently we are working on instruments for Mars Science Laboratory, Phoenix, and the International Space Station.
Ground-based Microwave Applications - 382F
Supervisor: Stephen Keihm (Acting), 818.354.3656, Stephen.J.Keihm@jpl.nasa.gov
The Ground Based Microwave Applications Group specializes in end-to-end production of passive microwave radiometers for remote atmospheric sensing of temperature and water vapor. The implementation phases include design, fabrication, testing, field deployment, data analysis, and publications of science results. Both ground based and airborne instruments are developed. Ongoing projects include: AWVR—the Advanced Water Vapor Radiometer currently deployed for tropospheric calibration at the Goldstone and Madrid DSN sites; GeoSTAR—Geostationary Synthetic Aperture Radiometer being developed for geostationary orbit deployment for monitoring tropical storm development; HAMSR—High Altitude Microwave Sounding Radiometer for measuring temperature and water vapor profiles from a UAV; Airborne MTP—Microwave Temperature Profiler utilized to support filed campaigns of Upper Atmosphere chemical research; two group members also work extensively on flight project tasks in the areas of Integration & Testing and Electromagnetic Compatibility Testing, including Test Development, Test Documentation, Redesign and Test Reports at the subsystem, instrument and spacecraft levels.
Astrophysics & Earth Science Systems - 382G
Supervisor: Todd Gaier, 818.354.4402, Todd.C.Gaier@jpl.nasa.gov
The Astrophysics & Earth Science Systems Group provides engineering capability primarily from an instrument systems point of view to develop and demonstrate new microwave radiometer and radar instruments for Earth remote sensing applications. This includes new instrument concepts and designs, building and demonstrating prototypes and building flight instruments. Recent aircraft instruments have been the Airborne Rain Mapping Radar (ARMAR), polarimetric wind radiometers (WINRAD), the cloud radar, and the Passive Active L/S (PALS) system for ocean surface salinity and soil moisture measurements. The spaceflight radiometer projects which have been supported are the Microwave Limb Sounder (filterbanks and 2nd IF system), the Topex Poseidon (microwave mixers), the Jason (MMIC radiometers), and the Microwave Imager for the Rosetta Orbiter (MIRO) (sub-mm radiometers).
Upper Atmosphere Microwave Experiment Development - 382H
Supervisor: Paul Stek, 818.354.7749, Paul.C.Stek@jpl.nasa.gov
The Upper Atmosphere Microwave Experiment Development Group forms an integrated team with the Microwave Atmospheric Science Element (3284) in Division 32. This team's objective is application of advanced microwave techniques for producing data and information to improve understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere. Critical issues of atmospheric global change, particularly stratospheric ozone depletion, climate variability, and pollution transport, have priority. The group is responsible for maintaining the continued safe performance of the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) on Aura, updating its calibration, and developing and maintaining the level 1 data processing algorithms. Along with supporting other microwave instruments at JPL, the group is developing technologies for the Scanning Microwave Limb Sounder (SMLS) that can serve as the advanced MLS for the Global Atmospheric Composition Mission (GACM) included in the NRC Earth Science from Space Decadal Survey.