“Earth, Air, Fire & Water: Monitoring Natural Hazards in California”

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Metro LA IEEE GRSS Panel Discussion Event

Southern California experiences its fair share of exposure to risks from natural hazards, e.g. wildfires, debris flows, and earthquakes.  Geosciences and remote sensing applications continue to increase our understanding and help to mitigate these risks.   This panel event brings together a few local southern California players involved in both advancing deployment of satellite and airborne capabilities and information technology as well their use in everyday and emergency operations

Panel Members :

  1. Tom Pagano (JPL, instrument engineer primarily, NOAA architecture trade, CIRSS)
  2. Mark Jackson (NWS-LOX MIC very busy today!)
  3. Susan Owen (JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Deputy Section Manager, ARIA

  4.  

    Dr. Owen is currently the Section Manager of the JPL Earth Science Section (329). She was previously Deputy Section Manager (2016-17), and Group Supervisor for the Earth Surface and Interior group (2015-16). She is also the Discipline Program Manager for Solid Earth Science (2015-present), Deputy Applications Lead for the NISAR mission (2012-present), Principal Investigator for the Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis project (2010-present) and serving as the President of the AGU Geodesy section for 2017-18. Her research interests include geodetic imaging of earth system processes and natural hazards, in particular GPS data analysis techniques for improving understanding of earthquake and volcanic processes. Prior to joining JPL in 2004, she was an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at University of Southern California. Susan received her Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University, and her B.A. in Physics from Harvard-Radcliffe.

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  • Date: 10 May 2018
  • Time: 05:00 PM to 06:30 PM
  • All times are (UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada)
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  • 1100 W Hollyvale St.
  • Azusa, California
  • United States 91702
  • Building: 59-1
  • Room Number: Event Center North
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  • NOTE: Registration will be required by April 19th 2018  to gain access to the facility.  To register fill out the VISITOR REQUEST FORM completely and return it to <la.grss.officers@ieee.org>.  Bring the referenced documentation with you when you attend the event.

  • Co-sponsored by Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems

  Speakers

Thomas Pagano Thomas Pagano of Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Topic:

“Earth, Air, Fire & Water: Monitoring Natural Hazards in California”

Thomas will speak on how remote sensing is used to Monitor Southern California's Natural Hazards.  Thomas has extensive experience with space based sensors like MODIS, CIRAS, and AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Project) and how their data is utilized to enhance our understanding of evolving threats.

Biography:

Thomas Pagano is a Systems Architect and Project Manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.  For the last 15 years, he has managed the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Project (AIRS), which operates the AIRS and two microwave sounding instruments on the EOS-Aqua Spacecraft.  Tom was the Principal Investigator and task manager for the CubeSat Infrared Atmospheric Sounder (CIRAS) technology development project. He also manages and participates in concept development studies for next generation imagers and sounders for NOAA.  Prior to joining JPL in 1997, he was the Chief Systems Engineer on the MODIS instrument development program at Raytheon SBRS since 1985 and saw this project from concept development through delivery to the spacecraft. He has a BS in Physics from UC Santa Barbara, and an MS in Physics from Montana State University.  He holds 2 US patents on constant spatial resolution imaging techniques. He is a Fellow member of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

Address:Pasadena, California, United States

Mark Jackson Mark Jackson of NWS NOAA

Topic:

Earth, Air, Fire & Water: Monitoring Natural Hazards in California”

Southern California experiences its fair share of exposure to risks from natural hazards, e.g. wildfires, debris flows, and earthquakes.  Geosciences and remote sensing applications continue to increase our understanding and help to mitigate these risks.   This panel event brings together a few local southern California players involved in both advancing deployment of satellite and airborne capabilities and information technology as well their use in everyday and emergency operations

Biography:

Mark Jackson is the Meteorologist in Charge with NOAA's National Weather Service (NWS) in Oxnard, California, serving Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Mark has a B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and an M.S. in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma.   Mark has been the meteorologist in charge in Oxnard since 2005, and prior to that worked in other NWS offices as a science and operations officer and as a regional scientist for a regional headquarters.  Over the span of his 23 year career with the National Weather Service, Mark has served on numerous scientific and programmatic teams, including the team to create the current National Weather Service Strategic Plan to build a Weather-Ready Nation and as a contributing member of the Evolve NWS Program Management Office to build enhanced Impact-Based Decision Support Services programs.   

Address:Oxnard, California, United States





Agenda

5pm:  Panel Event

7:30pm: Offsite Networking Dinner


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