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Chelle Gentemann

Physical oceanographer, remote sensing scientist, and an advocate for better science.

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Computational physical oceanographer, remote sensing scientist, and advocate for open science and inclusivity

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Professional Summary

Scientist and program leader at NASA Headquarters with 28 years of experience in original research, research funding, scientific strategy, and science communication across industry, nonprofits, and federal agencies. Founder of NASA’s ~$40M Transform to Open Science initiative; led the 17-agency 2023 White House Year of Open Science; and led a five-year, 75-person, $190M Earth Venture mission formulation team. Principal investigator on $14M+ across 20+ competitive awards and author of 70+ publications. Recognized with a 2026 NASA Agency Honor Award and the 2025 American Geophysical Union Open Science Recognition Prize. Builds programs, partnerships, and shared tools that help researchers advance science.

Selected Accomplishments

  • Researcher enablement: Founded NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) initiative, developing an approximately $40M strategy for training, policy, and grants. Built a community of 45,000+ scientists; its curriculum has trained 19,000+ researchers.
  • Scientific partnerships: Created and led NASA’s 2023 Year of Open Science with the White House and 16 other federal agencies, developing recognition awards, coordinating policies, funding initiatives, and outreach. Co-chaired the OSTP Subcommittee on Open Science Sub-Working Group on the Year of Open Science.
  • Scientific strategy: Led development, writing, and publication of NASA Science Mission Directorate’s Strategy for Data Management and Computing to Accelerate Scientific Discovery 2025–2030, leading a tiger team of experts and building consensus on recommendations.
  • AI strategy: Developed the “Ignite AI” adoption strategy for NASA’s Chief AI Officer. Created, deployed, and analyzed the NASA-wide SPARK AI challenge with the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI), using results to inform agency AI strategy.
  • Grant programs: Program officer for F.14 Transform to Open Science Training and F.15 High Priority Open-Source Science, supporting researcher skills and shared scientific software.
  • Writing and editorial judgment: Associate editor of AGU’s Earth and Space Science (2020–2023); published in Nature, Issues in Science and Technology, and AGU Advances. Grew one of NASA’s largest newsletters and delivered 55+ scientific and leadership presentations.
  • Mission leadership: Principal Investigator of Butterfly, a $190M Earth Venture mission proposal with a 75-person team and partners including JPL, Boeing, SpaceX, and 2i2c. The proposal received the highest possible review score (Category 1). Published the science section openly online.
  • Science policy: Co-chaired National Academies committees on open code policy (report) and Earth science and applications from space (CESAS); contributed scientific input to NASA’s information policy (SPD-41a); testified before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (video).
  • Open data: Co-created one of NASA’s first cloud-optimized public datasets.
  • Art and science: Collaborations with Jewel (Heart of the Ocean, Seven Sisters), Greg Niemeyer (Synchronicity and SpaceWalk on Salesforce Tower), and the To the Sun carillon concert, connecting the public to NASA Earth and space data (Eos article).

Occupation

Apr 2022 - Current Open Science Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Science Mission Directorate, Office of the Chief Science Data Officer, Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment

  • Directed Transform to Open Science (TOPS) program design, implementation, metrics, budget, and reporting, including quarterly reporting to the Science Management Advisory Council. Coordinated researchers, advisory committees, and interagency partners to translate scientific priorities into training, policy, and funding programs.
  • Developed scientific outreach through NASA’s open science newsletter and more than 55 presentations to research communities, advisory committees, agency leadership, and international partners.
  • Program officer for F.14 Transform to Open Science Training and F.15 High Priority Open-Source Science: developed scientific scope, wrote solicitation language, organized reviews, selected projects, and worked with awardees.
  • Developed the “Ignite AI” adoption strategy for NASA’s Chief AI Officer. Created, deployed, and analyzed the SPARK AI challenge with CoECI, using results to inform agency AI strategies.
  • Led SMD’s 2025–2030 Data Management and Computing Strategy; contributed scientific input to NASA’s information policy (SPD-41a) and co-authored an assessment of Earth System Observatory mission data processing architectures.
  • Led negotiation and management of an agreement with private funders to develop an America COMPETES challenge.

Apr 2023 - Current Senior Program Executive, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA. On assignment to NASA Headquarters.

Apr 2020 - Current Special Government Employee, NOAA Science Advisory Board

  • Lead author, Rapid Response Report “Accelerating cloud-enabled access to high-priority NOAA data.”
  • Co-chaired the open data / open science subcommittee, organized interviews, and co-authored its report.
  • Advised on research strategy, reviewed the Priorities for Weather Research report, and serve as SAB liaison to the Climate Working Group.

Apr 2020 - Dec 2023 Associate Editor, AGU Earth and Space Science

  • Edited Earth science and data science papers; developed implementation guidance for data and software citation.

2020 - 2023 Senior Scientist, Farallon Institute, Petaluma, CA

  • Mission PI for Butterfly, a $190M Earth Venture mission proposal with a 75-person team and partners including JPL, Boeing, SpaceX, and 2i2c. Integrated science, technical feasibility, budget, and risk; the proposal received a Category 1 ranking.
  • Published 18 research papers during 2020–2022. Led oceanographic field campaigns, delivered in situ Saildrone data to NASA archives, and advised on autonomous observing technologies.
  • Co-created one of NASA’s first cloud-optimized public datasets. Organized hackathons, tutorials, and science meetings to help researchers adopt cloud computing and shared data tools.

2016 - 2022 Affiliate, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory

2017 - 2018 Visiting Scholar, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Apr 2016 - Feb 2020 Senior Scientist, Earth and Space Research, Seattle, WA (remote)

  • Directed collaborative oceanographic grants from concept and experimental design through execution and publication; published 16 research papers.
  • Co-chaired the National Academies committee that delivered open-source software policy options to NASA, and co-chaired the Standing Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space.
  • Coordinated international research, data delivery to NASA archives, and project milestones.

1998 - 2015 Scientist (1998–2012); Senior Principal Scientist (2012–2015), Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA

  • Developed and validated passive microwave retrieval algorithms (TRMM, AMSR, AMSR-E, AMSR2, WindSat) and physical models of diurnal warming for sea surface temperature measurements with international partners.
  • Created and led a US team delivering satellite data to NASA archives, continuing across research appointments (2004–2022) with approximately 20 co-investigators.

Education

2003 - 2007 Ph.D. University of Miami Meteorology and Physical Oceanography
1995 - 1997 M.S. UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography Physical Oceanography
1991 - 1995 B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

Technical Expertise

  • Scientific computing: Python, Fortran, MATLAB, C++, scripting, and LaTeX.
  • Research infrastructure: AWS, cloud computing, open datasets, scientific software, reproducibility, and data and software citation.
  • AI strategy: Ignite AI development and SPARK AI challenge design, deployment, and analysis.

Awards

2026 NASA Agency Honor Award: Excellence in Group Achievement to the NASA Open Science Curriculum Team, for outstanding achievement in developing and delivering a comprehensive open science curriculum, advancing scientific rigor and transparency across the research community.
2025 American Geophysical Union Open Science Recognition Prize. The award recognizes individuals or teams advancing open science principles for global benefit; it was given for advocacy and leadership in making Earth and space science data and software openly accessible, shaping NASA open science policy, and creating the Federal Year of Open Science.
2021 Radiant Earth Foundation 15 Leading Women in Machine Learning for Earth Observation (ML4EO).
2013 American Geophysical Union Charles S. Falkenberg Award The award is for a “scientist under 45 years of age who has contributed to the quality of life, economic opportunities, and stewardship of the planet through the use of Earth science information and to the public awareness of the importance of understanding our planet”.
2008 National Oceanographic Partnership Program 2008 Excellence in Partnering Award C. Gentemann was the PI on this project. The award is “presented annually to research teams that best demonstrate the partnerships objectives of NOPP, recognizing the project’s commitment to partnering, the success of the partnership effort, and the impact of the partnership on oceanography”.
2007 AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico. Outstanding student presentation award.
2006 AGU Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD. Outstanding student paper award.
2006 IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Denver, CO. Student paper competition finalist.
2005 American Meteorological Society 13th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Norfolk, VA. Student poster competition: 3rd prize.
2001 NASA Group Achievement Award to the Satellite Ocean Atlas Team Award for outstanding achievement in utilization of multiple observations from space for the study of the global oceans. C. Gentemann was a member of the team.

Science Teams, Working Groups, Organizing Committees

2024 - Current Co-chair White House Office for Science, Technology, and Policy National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subgroup on Engagement, within the Subcommittee on Open Science
2020 - Current Board Member NOAA Science Advisory Board. Strategic Research Guidance Memorandum (SRGM) 2026 Tiger Team. SAB liaison for Climate Working Group.
2015 - 2025 Committee Member National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group (ISTEG)
2022 - 2023 Co-chair White House Office for Science, Technology, and Policy National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Subgroup on Year of Open Science, within the Subcommittee on Open Science
2021 - 2023 Steering Committee NASA Open-Source Science for the Earth System Observatory Mission Data Processing Study
2012 - 2020 Committee Member 2018 - 2020 Co-Chair National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Standing Committee on Earth Science & Applications from Space (CESAS)
2017 - 2018 Co-Chair National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Studies report
2013 - 2015 Committee Member National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Committee on a Framework for Analyzing the Needs for Continuity of NASA-Sustained Remote Sensing Observations of the Earth from Space report
2020 - 2023 Associate Editor American Geophysical Union Earth and Space Science
2020 - 2022 Science Team US Clivar Working Group: Uncertainty Quantification
2020 - 2022 Steering Council Pangeo
2001 - 2022 Science Team and Advisory Council 2016 - 2017 Chair Advisory Council Group for high resolution SST (GHRSST) Science Team
2013 - 2018 Member, 2018 - 2020 Chair NOAA Science Advisory Board (SAB): Data Access and Archiving Requirements Working Group (DAARWG)
2014 - 2019 Committee Member 2016 - 2019 Chair AGU Falkenberg Award Committee
2019 - 2022 Team member NASA PO.DAAC Early Cloud Adopters Program
2019 - 2022 Science Team JAXA AMSR3
2014 - 2015 Chair NASA GHRC User Working Group
2011 - 2013 Chair, 2006 - 2013 Team Member NASA PO.DAAC User Working Group
2009 - 2016 Science Team JAXA GCOM-W AMSR2 Science Team
2010 - 2020 Science Team NASA Sea Surface Temperature Science Team
1998 - 2020 Member MIT Educational Council
1998 - 2001 Team Member NASA Satellite Ocean Atlas Team

Media: Podcasts, Interviews, and Articles

2024 Vanishing Gradients podcast Episode 35: Open Science at NASA – Measuring Impact and the Future of AI
2024 NASA Small steps, Giant leaps podcast Episode 129: Accelerating discoveries with open science
2023 StoryCorps Archives: AGU Narratives
2023 Turing Way Fireside Chat Implementing Open Science at Scale Interview
2022 AWS Day One These Women use Science Data and Amazon to Fight Climate Change 14 Feb 2022 Article
2022 Environmental Professionals Radio (EPR), “Coding, Open Science, and Physical Oceanography with Dr. Chelle Gentemann” PodCast
2021 Distributed Data Science and Oceanography with Dask 8 April 2021 Video
2021 NASA Earth Data Chats 21 May 2021. Article
2021 PythonBytes Podcast “Please Re-enable Spacebar Heating” 3 Dec 2021. PodCast
2020 AWS Public Sector Online, 30 June 2020. Video
2020 Saildrone’s Science at the Air-sea Interface 23 July 2020. Article
2020 Improving our knowledge about the oceans by providing cloud-based access to large datasets 28 July 2020. Article
2020 Dask in Action with Massive Satellite Datasets 8 Aug 2020. Article
2020 Accelerating Science with Dask 26 July 2020. Article
2019 House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, “Discovery on the Frontiers of Space: Exploring NASA’s Science Mission.” 11 June 2019. Video
2018 Human Emissions Made Ocean Heat Wave 53 Times More Likely 15 Jan 2018. Article
2017 National Geographic: A Striking New View of the Pacific Blob 8 Feb 2017. Article

Medium Blog Posts

2026 Project Hail Mary got the most important part right 2022 5 mistakes that landed me a dream job at NASA headquarters
2021 The ocean fueled Hurricane Ida’s explosive growth
2021 The secret to writing a great NASA proposal
2021 NASA Earth Venture Missions

Art and Images

2026 SpaceWalk installation on Salesforce Tower (collaboration with Greg Niemeyer and Elle O’Hill)
2026 ‘Rainfall Transitions’ (collaboration with Greg Niemeyer)
2025 “To the Sun” carillon concert
2025 ‘Seven Sisters’ (collaboration with Jewel)
2024 ‘Heart of the Ocean’ (collaboration with Jewel; Eos article)
2024 Synchronicity installation on Salesforce Tower (collaboration with Greg Niemeyer)
2020 Cover image August 2020 BAMS
2020 NRDC fact sheet October 2020, image of Blob
2017 Cover image Jan 2017 GRL
2010 Cover image 2010 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2008 Earle, S. and L. Glover (2008), Oceans: An illustrated atlas, National Geographic, 320p.
2007 King, M.D., C.L. Parkinson, K.C. Partington, R.G. Williams (2007), Our changing planet, the view from space, Cambridge University Press, 400p.
2001 Cover image 2001 IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Hackathons

2022 GHRSST Science Team meeting, Open Science workshop/hack
2021 OceanHackWeek, website
2020 AGU Ocean Sciences, Pangeo Tutorial website
2020 OceanHackWeek, website
2019 PICES Ecosystem tool website
2019 OceanObs Python Tutorial, Python for Oceanography website
2019 GHRSST Science Team meeting, organized and gave 1-day Python workshop website

Meeting Organization

2023 - 2026 AGU Annual Meeting Union Sessions and Workshops: NASA open science events
2023 Dec 15 U51A Union Session: Science for All—Organizing Agile Openness
2023 Dec 12 IN22A Flourishing Science Commons: Data Science, Open Science, and Knowledge Communities
2023 July 10-14 CERN/NASA Open Science Summit Co-Chair
2023 LPSC and AMS Annual Meeting Town Halls and Workshops: NASA open science events
2022 - 2023 NASA TOPS Community Panels
2022 Mar 4 ASLO/AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting Innovation Session: IN08A Open Ocean Science
2021 Dec 17 AGU Fall Meeting full day Innovation Session: U51B: Open Science in Action
2020 Symposium on Earth Science and Applications from Space with Special Guest Michael Freilich website
2019 OceanObs Session “Open Source Software Revolution”
2003 - 2022 Annual MISST science team meetings held at AGU/Ocean Sciences
2018 - 2020 Biannual NASEM CESAS committee meetings
2017 - 2018 NASEM Committee on Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Studies meetings (3 total) 2009 10th International GHRSST Science Team Meeting website

Partial list of invited talks/panels/interviews

  1. 2026 Keynote Speaker, National Academy of Sciences Space Sciences Week, Event, Video, Slides
  2. 2025 Keynote, AGU Open Science Recognition Prize
  3. 2024 Invited panelist at IBM “AI for Federal Agencies” event
  4. 2024 Invited speaker at Cloud Native’s Women in Geospatial Webinar
  5. 2024 Keynote at University of Santo Tomas College of Science
  6. 2024 Invited talk at NSF’s Open Science Hour
  7. 2024 Plenary at Center for Open Science Year of Open Science Culminating Conference: NASA’s open road ahead
  8. 2024 Plenary at NOAA’s 2024 Enterprise Data Management Workshop The open road ahead
  9. 2023 Dec 19 StoryCorps Archives: AGU Narratives Interview
  10. 2023 Dec 14 AGU Fall Meeting IN43A - Fostering Wide-Open Science by Improving Collaboration, Innovation, Attribution, Identity, and Ethics in Data Repositories and Data (Re)publication II, Transforming to Open Science Invited Talk
  11. 2023 Nov 16 National Academy of Science and Engineering Committee on Science, Engineering, Medicine, and Public Policy Fall Meeting, NASA’s Transform to Open Science initiative Invited Talk
  12. 2023 Nov 02, Irish National Open Research Festival 2023 NORF Opening Science Keynote
  13. 2023 Oct 18 Health Research Alliance (HRA) Open Research Webinar Series ‘Year of Open Science’ Invited Talk
  14. 2023 Oct 12 CERN Scientific Information Service (SIS) Retreat ‘Open Science Perspectives’ Keynote
  15. 2023 Jul 17 National Science Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Seminar How can public access advance equity and learning? Meeting Open Science Invited Talk
  16. 2023 Jun 23 COARA General Assembly Session: ’Research Assessment Practices and Perspective in a non-European Region’ NASA’s Transform to Open Science Mission Invited Talk
  17. 2023 Jun 04 AAS Summer meeting, The What and Why of Open Science Session 2023 NASA Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  18. 2023 May 12 Stanford Center for Open and REproducible Science CORES Annual Meeting Open Science Keynote
  19. 2023 May 11 TOPS May Community Forum: NASA’s Transform to Open Science (TOPS) Presentation
  20. 2023 May 9 Center for Open Science MetaScience 2023 Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  21. 2023 May 5 Turing Way Fireside Chat: Implementing Open Science at Scale, Interview
  22. 2023 May 4 University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory Faculty Retreat NASA’s 2023 Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  23. 2023 Mar 13 Lunar and Planetary Science Conference LPSC NASA’s Year of Open Science Town Hall
  24. 2023 Mar 6 UC Berkeley Collaborative and Reproducible Data Science Stats 159 ‘Climate Data Analysis using Xarray’ Guest Lecture
  25. 2023 Feb 21 Materials Research Data Alliance MaRDA Annual Meeting, Equitable Access and the Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  26. 2023 Feb 09 UN 3rd Global Open Science Conference. NASA Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  27. 2023 Feb 08 Scientific Society CEO breakfast 2023 NASA’s Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  28. 2023 Jan 11 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. NASA’s Year of Open Science Keynote.
  29. 2023 Jan 11 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting. TOPS Townhall
  30. 2022 Dec 5 National Academy of Science Open Science Roundtable Stakeholder Actions to Implement Open Scholarship Workshop. Federal Perspectives.
  31. 2022 Dec 1-2 Einstein Foundation Global Dynamics in Responsible Research Workshop, Open Science Keynote
  32. 2022 Nov 09 PyDataNY Conference I’m from the government and I’m here to help Keynote
  33. 2022 Nov 07 Solid Earth Science Team Meeting, La Jolla. Ethos of Open Science, Workshop
  34. 2022 Oct 31 Fish and Wildlife Service Data Management Conference Science Storms the Cloud Keynote
  35. 2022 Oct 26 Open Source Science: A Conversation with Leaders at NASA and UC Berkeley Panel with livestream and Invited Talk
  36. 2022 Sept 16 NOAA Environmental Data Management Workshop Panel a Year of Open Science Invited Talk
  37. 2022 Sept 15 PACE Applications Workshop Open Data and Accessibility Plenary Talk
  38. 2022 Oct 27 Python at Scale
  39. 2022 May 7 Women in Data Science Santa Clara, Distinguished Speaker, Transforming to Open Science
  40. 2022 Mar 14 US CLIVAR Summit Transforming to Open Science
  41. 2022 Mar 11 AGU Open Science Pathways in the Earth, Space, and Life Sciences Opening up to Open Science Invited Talk
  42. 2022 Apr 28 DOE ARM/ASR Open Science Virtual Workshop NASA’s Transform to Open Science Initiative, Keynote
  43. 2022 Oct UC Berkeley’s Data 100 Climate and Physical Data Guest Lecture
  44. 2022 Spring UC Berkeley Stat 159/259 Guest Lecture
  45. 2022 Feb 08 NASEM Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to Advance Earth System Science Opportunities and Challenges Workshop ML/AI - opportunities & challenges: data & community Invited talk
  46. 2021 Dec 10 AGU Fall Meeting U34A-02: Science for the World: Transform to OPen Science (TOPS)
  47. 2021 Dec 10 AGU Fall Meeting IN55C-02: Open Oceanography - FOSS science
  48. 2021 Nov 8-11 Australian Bureau of Meteorology Annual research and development workshop Science Storms the Cloud Invited Talk
  49. 2021 Oct 28 UC Berkeley’s Data 100 Physical Data and Climate Guest Lecture
  50. 2021 Oct 14 NASA Open-Source Science for Data Processing and Archives Workshop Transform to OPen Science Invited Talk
  51. 2021 Sept 27 FOSS4G Open Source Science Invited Talk
  52. 2021 Oct 21 NASEM Committee on Radio Frequencies Passive microwave data provide a critically important 40-year record of changes to our climate Invited Talk
  53. 2021 Jun 9 FedGeoDay Open Ecosystems Help Science Storm the Cloud Keynote
  54. 2021 Pangeo Science Showcase: Accessing SST data on the cloud
  55. 2021 Apr 8 Science Thursday Livestream on Distributed Data Science and Oceanography with Dask Invited Talk
  56. 2021 International Ocean Vector Wind Science Team meeting Butterfly Invited talk
  57. 2020 AGU Fall meeting invited talk: Session: Atmospheric and Oceanic Processes Governing the Trade-wind Regions, “Emerging technologies for air-sea interaction research: saildrones during EUREC4A/ATOMIC”.
  58. 2020 ESIP Summer Meeting, “Empowering Transformational Science” Plenary Speaker
  59. 2020 The Consortium for Ocean Leadership’s Workshop to Support Implementation of NOAA’s UxS Strategy, “Building a community of practice” panel. Invited Talk
  60. 2020 NASA Designated Observables Special Topic: Open Science and Data Systems, “Towards open science: accelerating and expanding NASA’s scientific impact” Invited Talk.
  61. 2020 COVID-19: Identifying Unique Opportunities for Earth System Science,” Keck Institute for Space Studies virtual workshop, “Cloud enabled science” Invited Talk
  62. 2020 AWS Public Sector Summit, The Cube, “Cloud enabled science” Interview
  63. 2020 Coiled Blog “Dask in Action with Massive Satellite Datasets” Interview.
  64. 2020 Coiled Blog “Accelerating Science with Dask” Interview.
  65. 2020 Symposium on Earth Science and Applications from Space with Special Guest Michael Freilich Closing Statement, at 8:10:30
  66. 2018 AGU Fall Meeting “TH13C: Best Practices for a Future Open Code Policy for NASA Space Science” Town Hall
  67. 2018 AGU Fall Meeting “TH45A: Data Science and a New Scientific Frontier in Space Science” Town Hall
  68. 2018 SFSU, “The changing landscape of science” Invited Talk
  69. 2015 IGARSS, “RFI in Microwave Remote Sensing”
  70. 2011 AGU Fall Meeting, “AQUA AMSR-E Sea Surface Temperature”
  71. 2010 Oceans from Space, “A review of Passive Microwave Retrievals from Space”
  72. 2008 Yale Department of Geology & Geophysics Colloquium, “Satellite sea surface temperatures”
  73. 2006 AGU Joint Assembly, “Optimally interpolated infrared and microwave sea surface temperatures: The Multi-sensor Improved SST (MISST) Project”\
  74. 2006 IGARSS IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, “Multi-satellite, multi-sensor data fusion: global daily 10 km SSTs from MODIS, AMSR-E, and TMI”
  75. 2006 IGARSS IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, “In situ observations of diurnal warming in the skin layer”
  76. 2004 AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, “Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperatures (MISST) for GODAE”
  77. 2004 AGU Ocean Sciences, “Diurnal warming in satellite sea-surface temperatures”
  78. 2003 JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology, “Diurnal Warming and Climate SST records”
  79. 2003 CEOS Meeting, Ocean Sciences, “Accurate microwave SST retrieval and microwave/infrared blending”
  80. 2002 GCOS Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data, “Advances in Microwave Sea Surface Temperature” and “Towards Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research”
  81. 2001 GODAE Science Team Meeting, “Microwave SST retrievals from TRMM”
  82. 2001 IGARSS, “Satellite Microwave SST: Accuracy, Comparisons to AVHRR and Reynolds SST, and Measurement of Diurnal Thermocline Variability”

Memberships

  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • American Meteorological Society (AMS)
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
  • The Oceanography Society (TOS)

Mentoring Experience

Dr. Gentemann has mentored over 20 students, sat on 6 Ph.D. committees, mentored groups in several hackathons, and mentored several Summer interns. She uses social media to encourage and communicate with Early Career Scientists.

Ph.D. / Masters Committees, Summer Interns, Student collaborators

2025 - present Elle O’Hill, University of California, Berkeley
2025 - 2025 Lyric Banks, University of California, Berkeley
2025 - 2025 William Wu, University of California, Berkeley
2019 - 2023 Chong Jia, University of Miami
2021 Lucas Sterzinger, UC Davis
2020 - 2021 Sanola Sandiford, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
2020 - 2021 Kashawn Hall, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
2020 - 2021 Alton Daley, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
2020 - 2021 Shanice Whitehall, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology
2020 - 2021 Zaher Alruzaiqi, Sultan Qaboos University
2019 - 2020 Sotirios Skarpalezos, Technical University of Denmark
2017 - 2018 Emy Alerskans, Technical University of Denmark
2019 - 2020 Senya Stein, Colorado School of the Mines
2020 Alayah Densby, KIPP San Francisco College Prep
2020 Alessandra Richardson-Beatty, Stanford Online High School
2020 Alyssa Bautista, George Washington High School
2020 Edgar Orozco, June Jordan High School
2020 Emma Chu, Abraham Lincoln High School
2020 Sebastien Bachar, Berkeley High school
2020 Viva Voong, Lowell High School
2018 - 2019 Alyssa Ells, San Francisco State University
2019 - 2020 Kexin Song, University of Miami
2017 - 2019 Bingkun Luo, University of Miami
2013 - 2015 Xiaofeng Zhu, University of Miami
2013 - 2016 Yang Lui, University of Miami

Publications

  1. NASA Science Mission Directorate (2025). Strategy for Data Management and Computing to Accelerate Scientific Discovery 2025–2030. C. Gentemann, development and writing lead.
  2. Crawford, S., & Gentemann, C. (2026). Dataset for MONITORING IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION POLICY FOR THE NASA SCIENCE MISSION DIRECTORATE (SPD-41A) METRICS 2024 REPORT [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18615630
  3. Armstrong, E. M., Castro, S., Gentemann, C., Guan, L., Karagali, I., Merchant, C., Minnett, P., Piollé, J.-F., Vazquez-Cuervo, J., Alvera Azcarate, A., Loveday, B., Ruescas, A., Evers-King, H., & O’Carroll, A. (2025). GHRSST Outline of Training Plan (2023). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17672475
  4. Costes, S.V., Gentemann, C.L., Platts, S.H. et al. Biological horizons: pioneering open science in the cosmos. Nat Commun 15, 4780 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48633-2
  5. Tananbaum, G., Gentemann, C., Naim, K., & Marcum, C. S. (2024). A Plan to Develop Open Science’s Green Shoots into a Thriving Garden. Issues in Science and Technology, 40(2), 24–27.
  6. Bingham, A. et al., 2023, Final Report of the Open Source Science for Earth System Observatory Mission Data Processing Architecture Study, doi:10.48577/jpl.AXZSUY
  7. Gentemann, C. L. Why NASA and federal agencies are declaring this the Year of Open Science (2023). Nature 613, 217. doi: 10.1038/d41586-023-00019-y
  8. Gentemann, C., Garcia-Reyes, M., & Vazquez, J. (2023). Exploring the Arctic Ocean With Sailing Robots. The Circle, WWF Arctic Programme.
  9. NOAA Science Advisory Board (2022), Report on open data / open science
  10. Field Measurements for Passive Environmental Remote Sensing: Instrumentation, Intensive Campaigns, and Satellite Applications. Chapter 19 “Sea surface temperature validation and blended analysis (2022). United States: Elsevier Science. doi:10.1016/C2020-0-01287-9
  11. Tang, W., S. Yueh, A. Fore, J. Vazquez-Cuervo, C. Gentemann, A. Hayashi, A. Akins, M. Garcia Reyes, Using Saildrones to Assess the SMAP Sea Surface Salinity Retrieval in the Coastal Regions, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 15, pp. 7042-7051, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3200305.
  12. Hall, K.; Daley, A.; Whitehall, S.; Sandiford, S.; Gentemann, C.L. Validating Salinity from SMAP and HYCOM Data with Saildrone Data during EUREC4A-OA/ATOMIC. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 3375. doi: 10.3390/rs14143375.
  13. Zhang., C., A. F. Levine, M. Wang, C. L. Gentemann, C. W. Mordy, E. D. Cokelet, P. A. Browne, Q. Yang, N. Lawrence-Slavas, C. Meinig, G. Smith, A. Chiodi, D. Zhang, P. Stabeno, W. Wang, H. Ren, K. A. Peterson, S. N. Figueroa, M. Steele, N. P. Barton, Evaluation of Surface Conditions from Operational Forecasts Using in situ Saildrone Observations in the Pacific Arctic, Monthly Weather Review, 150(6) (2022), doi: 10.1175/MWR-D-20-0379.1.
  14. Gentemann, C. L., Erdmann, C.; and Kroeger, C. Opening up to Open Science, Issues in Science and Technology, 38, no. 3, Spring 2022, 57–59.
  15. Vazquez-Cuervo, J.; Castro, S.L.; Steele, M.; Gentemann, C.; Gomez-Valdes, J.; Tang, W. Comparison of GHRSST SST Analysis in the Arctic Ocean and Alaskan Coastal Waters Using Saildrones. Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 692. doi: 10.3390/rs14030692
  16. Ashlock, L., M. Garcia-Reyes, S. Batten, C. Gentemann, W. Sydeman, Temperature and Patterns of Occurrence and Abundance of Key Copepod Taxa in the Northeast Pacific, Front. Mar. Sci., 07 September 2021, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.670795.
  17. Stevens, B., et al. “EUREC4A”, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4067-4119, 2021, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-4067-2021.
  18. Erdmann, Christopher, Stall, Shelley, Gentemann, Chelle, Holdgraf, Chris, Fernandes, Filipe P. A., & Gehlen, Karsten Peters-von. (2021, May 20). Guidance for AGU Authors - Jupyter Notebooks. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.4910038
  19. Gentemann, C. L., Holdgraf, C., Abernathey, R., Crichton, D., Colliander, J., Kearns, E. J., et al. (2021). Science storms the cloud. AGU Advances, 2, e2020AV000354. doi: 10.1029/2020AV000354
  20. Chiodi AM, Zhang C, Cokelet ED, Yang Q, Mordy CW, Gentemann CL, Cross JN, Lawrence-Slavas N, Meinig C, Steele M, Harrison DE, Stabeno PJ, Tabisola HM, Zhang D, Burger EF, O’Brien KM and Wang M (2021) Exploring the Pacific Arctic Seasonal Ice Zone With Saildrone USVs. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:640697. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.640697
  21. Vazquez-Cuervo, J., C.L. Gentemann, et al. Validation of Sea Surface Salinity in the Bering Straits using Saildrone, SMAP, and Models, Remote Sens. 2021, 13(5), 831; doi: 10.3390/rs13050831.
  22. Abernathey, R.P., T. Augspurger, A. Banihirwe, C.C. Blackmon-Luca, T.J. Crone, C.L. Gentemann, J. J. Hamman, N. Henderson, C. Lepore, T. A. McCaie, N.H. Robinson, R.P. Signell, Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data, Computing in Science & Engineering, 23(2), 26–35, 2021. doi: 10.1109/MCSE.2021.3059437
  23. Hoover BA, García-Reyes M, Batten SD, Gentemann CL, Sydeman WJ (2021) Spatio-temporal persistence of zooplankton communities in the Gulf of Alaska. PLoS ONE 16(1): e0244960. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244960
  24. Gentemann, C.L.; et al. FluxSat: Measuring the Ocean-Atmosphere Turbulent Exchange of Heat and Moisture from Space. Remote Sensing 2020, 12, 1796, doi:10.3390/rs12111796.
  25. Gentemann, C.L., et al., “Saildrone: adaptively sampling the marine environment”, 2020, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 101, E744-E762, doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0015.1.
  26. Alerskans, E., J. L. Høyer, C. L. Gentemann, et al. (2020), Construction of a climate data record of sea surface temperature from passive microwave measurements, Remote Sensing of Environment, 236, 111485, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.111485.
  27. Scott, J. P., S. Crooke, I. Cetinić, C. E. Del Castillo, and C. L. Gentemann (2020), Correcting non-photochemical quenching of Saildrone chlorophyll-a fluorescence for evaluation of satellite ocean color retrievals, Opt. Express 28(3), 4274-4285, doi: 10.1364/OE.382029.
  28. Cronin M. F. and C. L. Gentemann, (2019) Ocean Surface Holds the Key to Understanding Our Climate, Scientia Earth and Environment. doi: 10.33548/SCIENTIA435.
  29. Vazquez-Cuervo, J.; Gomez-Valdes, J.; Bouali, M.; Miranda, L.E.; Van der Stocken, T.; Tang, W.; Gentemann, C. Using Saildrones to Validate Satellite-Derived Sea Surface Salinity and Sea Surface Temperature along the California/Baja Coast (2019), Remote Sens., 11, 1964 doi: 10.3390/rs11171964.
  30. Merchant, C. J., P. J. Minnett, H. Beggs, G. K. Corlett, C. Gentemann, et al. (2019), 2 - Global Sea Surface Temperature, in Taking the Temperature of the Earth, edited by G. C. Hulley and D. Ghent, pp. 5-55, Elsevier, doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-814458-9.00002-2.
  31. O’Carroll, A. G., et al. (2019), Observational Needs of Sea Surface Temperature, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(420), doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00420.
  32. Cronin, M., C.L. Gentemann, et al., Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum, Frontiers in Marine Science, 6(430), doi:10.3389/fmars.2019.00430.
  33. Minnett, P. J., et al. (2019), Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature, Remote Sensing of Environment, 233, 111366, doi:10.1016/j.rse.2019.111366.
  34. Boussidi, B., P. Cornillon, G. Puggioni, and C. Gentemann (2019), Determining the AMSR-E SST Footprint from Co-Located MODIS SSTs, Remote Sensing, 11(6), 715, doi:10.3390/rs11060715.
  35. Luo, B., P.J. Minnett, C. L. Gentemann, G. Szczodrak, (2019) Improving satellite retrieved night-time infrared sea surface temperatures in aerosol contaminated regions, Rem. Sens. of Environ., Vol. 223, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2019.01.009.
  36. Gentemann, C. L., & Akella, S. (2018). Evaluation of NASA GEOS-ADAS modeled diurnal warming through comparisons to SEVIRI and AMSR2 SST observations. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123, 1364-1375. doi: 10.1002/2017JC013186.
  37. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018) Open Source Software Policy Options for NASA Earth and Space Sciences. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press., doi: 10.17226/25217.
  38. Lee, T., and C. L. Gentemann (2018), Satellite SST and SSS Observations and Their Role to Constrain Ocean Models, in New Frontiers in Operational Oceanography, edited by E. P. Chassignet, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Scotts Valley, CA, pp. 812.DOI:10.17125/gov2018.ch11
  39. Zhang, H., Beggs, H., Merchant, C. J., Wang, X. H., Majewski, L., Kiss, A. E., et al. (2018). Comparison of SST diurnal variation models over the Tropical Warm Pool region. J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 123, 3467–3488. doi: 10.1029/2017JC013517.
  40. Nielsen-Englyst, P., J. L. Hoyer, L. Toudal Pedersen, C. L. Gentemann, E. Alerskans, T. Block, and C. Donlon (2018), Optimal Estimation of Sea Surface Temperature from AMSR-E, Remote Sensing, 10(2), 229, doi:10.3390/rs10020229.
  41. Gentemann, C. L., M. R. Fewings, and M. García-Reyes (2016), Satellite sea surface temperatures along the West Coast of the United States during the 2014-2016 northeast Pacific marine heat wave, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, doi:10.1002/2016GL071039.
  42. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Continuity of NASA Earth Observations from Space: A Value Framework. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/21789.
  43. Gentemann, C.L. and K.A. Hilburn, In situ validation of sea surface temperatures from the GCOM-W1 AMSR2 RSS calibrated brightness temperatures, (2015) J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 3567-3585, doi: 10.1002/2014JC010574.
  44. Walker, N. D., R. R. Leben, C. T. Pilley, M. Shannon, D. C. Herndon, I.-F. Pun, I.-I. Lin, and C. L. Gentemann (2014), Slow translation speed causes rapid collapse of northeast Pacific Hurricane Kenneth over cold core eddy, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 7595-7601, doi:10.1002/2014GL061584
  45. Gentemann, C. L., Three way validation of MODIS and AMSR-E sea surface temperatures, (2014), J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 119, 2583-2598, doi:10.1002/2013JC009716.
  46. Woods, S., P.J. Minnett, C.L. Gentemann, D. Bogucki, Influence of the oceanic cool skin layer on global air-sea CO2 flux estimates, (2014), Rem. Sens. of Enviro. 145, 15-24.
  47. Becker, E.A., D.G. Foley, K.A. Forney, J. Barlow, J.V. Redfern, C.L. Gentemann, Forecasting cetacean abundance patterns to enhance management decisions (2012), Endangered Species Research, 16, 97-112, doi: 10.3354/esr00390.
  48. Monier, A., R. M. Welsh, C. L. Gentemann, G. Weinstock, E. Sodergren, E. V. Armbrust, J. A. Eisen and A. Z. Worden, Phytoplankton phosphate uptake and cross domain commonalities in viral-host gene exchanges (2012), Environmental Microbiology, 14, 162-176, doi: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02576.x.
  49. Demir, E., S. Sudek, M. Cuvelier, C.L. Gentemann, J. Zehr, A.Z. Worden, Global distribution patterns of distinct clades of the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Ostreococcus (2011), ISME Journal, 5(7), 1095-1107, doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.209.
  50. Gentemann, C. L., F. J. Wentz, M. Brewer, K. A. Hilburn and D. K. Smith. Passive microwave remote sensing of the ocean: an overview, in Oceanography from Space, revisited (2010), edited by V. Barale, J. Gower and L. Alberotanza, Springer, Heidelberg.
  51. Gentemann, C.L., T. Meissner, and F. J. Wentz, Accuracy of satellite sea surface temperatures at 7 and 11 GHz (2010), Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens., 48(3), 1009-1018, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2030322.
  52. Reynolds, R.W., C.L. Gentemann,G.K. Corlett, Evaluation of AATSR and TMI satellite SST data (2010), J. Clim., 23(1), DOI: 10.1175/2009JCLI3252.1.
  53. Donlon, C. J., K. S. Casey, I. S. Robinson, C. L. Gentemann, R. W. Reynolds, I. Barton, O. Arino, J. Stark, N. Rayner, P. LeBorgne, D. Poulter, J. Vazquez, H. Beggs, D. Llewellyn Jones, P. Minnett, The GODAE High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP) (2009), Oceanography, 22(3), 34-45.
  54. Donlon, C.J., K.S. Casey, C.L. Gentemann, et al., Successes and Challenges for the Modern Sea Surface Temperature Observing System (2009), OceanObs 09 community white paper.
  55. Worden, A. Z., et al. (2009), Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas, Science, 324(5924), 268, doi:10.1126/science.1167222.
  56. Gentemann, C.L., P.J. Minnett, and B. Ward, Profiles of Surface Heating (POSH): a new model of upper ocean diurnal warming (2009), J. Geophys. Res.,114, C07017, doi:10.1029/2008JC004825.
  57. Gentemann, C.L., P.J. Minnett, J. Sienkiewicz, M. DeMaria, J. Cummings, Y. Jin, J.D. Doyle, L. Gramer, C.N. Barron, K. Casey, and C. Donlon, The Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature (MISST) project (2009), Oceanography, 22(2), 76-87.
  58. Gentemann, C.L., P.J. Minnett, P. LeBorgne, and C.J. Merchant (2008), Multi-satellite measurement of large diurnal SST warming events, Geophys. Res. Lett., 35, L22602, doi: 10.1029/2008GL035730.
  59. Kettle, H., C. J. Merchant, M. Filipiak, C. D. Jeffery and C. L. Gentemann (2008), The impact of diurnal variability in sea surface temperature on the Atlantic sea-air CO2 flux, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 9, 529–541, 2009.
  60. Gentemann, C.L. and P.J. Minnett (2008), Radiometric measurements of ocean surface thermal variability, J. Geophys. Res., 113, C08017, doi:10.1029/2007JC004540.
  61. Gentemann, C.L. (2007), Diurnal warming at the ocean surface, Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Miami, FL, University of Miami, Doctor of Philosophy: 163 pp.
  62. Donlon, C. J., et al. (2007), The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(8), 1197-1213.
  63. Horvath, A. and C. L. Gentemann (2007), Cloud-fraction-dependent bias in satellite liquid water path retrievals of shallow, non-precipitating marine clouds, Geophysical Research Letters, 34, doi:10.1029/2007GL030625.
  64. Dong, S., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall and C. L. Gentemann (2006), Validation of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean, Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, doi:10.1029/2005JC002934.
  65. Reynolds, R.W., H.M. Zhang, T.M. Smith, C.L. Gentemann, F.J. Wentz, “Impacts of in situ and additional satellite data on the accuracy of a sea-surface temperature analysis for climate”, (2005), Intern. J. of Climatology, 25(7), 857-864.
  66. Gentemann, C.L, F.J. Wentz, C.M. Mears, and D.K. Smith (2004), “In-situ validation of TRMM microwave sea surface temperatures”, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C04021.
  67. Donlon, C. J., L. Nykjaer and C. L. Gentemann (2004), Using sea surface temperature measurements from microwave and infrared satellite measurements, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 25(7-8), 1331-1336.
  68. Reynolds, R. W., C. L. Gentemann and F. J. Wentz (2004), Impact of TRMM SSTs on a climate-scale SST analysis, Journal of Climate, 17(8), 2938-2952.
  69. Gentemann, C.L, C.J. Donlon, A. Stuart-Menteth, F.J. Wentz (2003), “Diurnal signals in satellite sea surface temperature measurements”, Geophysical Research Letters, 30(3), 1140-1143.
  70. Stammer, D., F. J. Wentz and C. L. Gentemann (2003), Validation of microwave sea surface temperature measurements for climate purposes, Journal of Climate, 16(1), 73-87.
  71. Donlon, C. J., P. J. Minnett, C. L. Gentemann, T. J. Nightingale, I. J. Barton, B. Ward and M. J. Murray (2002), Towards improved validation of satellite sea surface skin temperature measurements for climate research, Journal of Climate, 15(4), 353-369.
  72. Chelton, D. B., S. K. Esbensen, M. G. Schlax, N. Thum, M. H. Freilich, F. J. Wentz, C. L. Gentemann, M. J. McPhaden and P. S. Schopf (2001), Observations of coupling between surface wind stress and sea surface temperature in the eastern tropical Pacific, Journal of Climate, 14(7), 1479-1498.
  73. Donlon, C. J., C. L. Gentemann and F. J. Wentz (2001), Measuring surface temperature with microwave sensors, Backscatter, 12, 37-39.
  74. Wentz, F. J., P. D. Ashcroft and C. L. Gentemann (2001), Post-launch calibration of the TMI microwave radiometer, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 39(2), 415-422.
  75. Halpern, D., V. Zlotnicki, P. M. Woicheshyn, O. B. Brown, G. C. Feldman, M. H. Freilich, F. J. Wentz, and C. Gentemann. 2000. “An atlas of monthly mean distributions of SSMI surface wind speed, AVHRR sea surface temperature, TMI sea surface temperature, AMI surface wind velocity, SeaWIFS chlorophyll-a, and TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface topography during 1998.” Jet Propulsion Laboratory Publication 00-08, 102 p. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109.
  76. Chelton, D. B., F. J. Wentz, C. L. Gentemann, R. A. D. Szoeke and M. G. Schlax (2000), Satellite microwave SST observations of transequatorial tropical instability waves, Geophysical Research Letters, 27(9), 1239-1242.
  77. Wentz, F. J., C. L. Gentemann, D. K. Smith and D. B. Chelton (2000), Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature through clouds, Science, 288(5467), 847-850.

Research Funding (listed by year awarded)

Principal investigator on $14M+ across 20+ competitive awards.

  1. 2021 IMPACT: Enabling scientific computing on the Cloud. Role: PI. $216,964
  2. 2020 IMPACT: Enabling scientific computing on the Cloud. Role: PI. $117,642
  3. 2019 IMPACT: Enabling scientific computing on the Cloud. Role: PI. $179,923
  4. 2018 IMPACT: Enabling scientific computing on the Cloud. Role: PI. $176,982
  5. 2018 Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature (SST): Continuing the GHRSST Partnership and improving Arctic Data. Role: PI. $4,074,032
  6. 2018 Validation in challenging environments: coastal and Arctic SSS. Role: PI. $399,222
  7. 2017 East Meets West: Dynamic Biogeography of the Subarctic North Pacific. Role: Co-I. $1,124,317
  8. 2017 Using Saildrone autonomous in situ data for satellite validation and research into upper ocean physics and ecology. Role: PI.
  9. 2016 Quantification of Atmospheric Influence on Passive Microwave Observations. Role: external expert consultant.
  10. 2015 Improved Spatial Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Fields from AMSR-E. Role: Co-I. $394,440
  11. 2015 Using satellite data to understand the impact of the Pacific SST anomaly on California’s drought. Role: PI. $149,221
  12. 2014 Continuation of Inter-Calibrated Ocean Products from GCOM-W AMSR2. Role: PI. $935,932
  13. 2013 Analysis and Mitigation of Atmospheric CrossTalk in VIIRS SST Retrievals. Role: Co-I. $916,282
  14. 2013 Estimating the effective heat capacity of the ocean. Role: PI. $453,040
  15. 2010 Storm induced wakes: upper ocean variability. Role: PI. $515,892
  16. 2010 A Next-generation Integrated Earth System Analysis - Coupling between the Ocean and Atmosphere. Role: Co-I. $2,874,871
  17. 2010 Complete Error Characterization of the DISCOVER Earth System Data Records. Role: Co-I. $1,226,187
  18. 2010 Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature (MISST) for IOOS. Role: PI. $3,984,551
  19. 2008 Geophysical retrievals from GCOM-W AMSR2. Role: PI. $677,296
  20. 2008 A NOPP Partnership for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC): Focused Analysis of Satellite Data Sets. Role: Co-I.
  21. 2007 Diurnal heating of the upper ocean. Role: Co-I.
  22. 2006 Integration of the AMSR-E Ocean Products into the Existing Satellite Climate Record. Role: Co-I.
  23. 2004 Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperature (MISST) for GODAE. Role: PI. $3,095,220
  24. 2003 Developing an Inner-Core SST Cooling Predictor for use in SHIPS. Role: Co-I.
  25. 2003 Intercomparison and error analysis of satellite microwave SST retrievals versus VOS and Buoy observations. Role: Co-I.