Bruce Guenther, Senior Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics

GSFC Code:

613.3

Mailing Address:

NPOESS IPO
8455 Colesville Road, Room 14303
Silver Spring, MD 20910 USA

Phone:

(301) 713-4802

Fax:

Email:

bruce.guenther@noaa.gov

Research Interests:

Research Interest Text

Biography:

Dr. Bruce Guenther received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA in Aeronomy in 1974. He was a NASA Goddard Space Flight Center employee from 1974 to 2001. He was an Engineering Fellow in the Lockheed Martin organization from April 2001 to September 2002. He became affiliated with the Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center in October 2002 and continues to the present in this affiliation. Guenther also serves as the Sensor Data Records Branch Head in the NPOESS Data Products Branch for NOAA-NESDIS in the Integrated Program Office as an Inter-Governmental Personnel Act transfer. His research and management highlights include the discovery of nearly constant presence of noctilucent clouds in the upper atmosphere over the summer poles, the presence of an NO absorption signature in the backscatter uv measurements at 255.5 nm on the Nimbus 4 BUV sensor, the introduction of a solar diffuser into the measurement paradigm for the MODIS EOS sensors and the delivery of the first MODIS L1b calibration data set to the EOS community. He has service as first EOS Project Scientist for the Terra Spacecraft and developed the strategy and provided first service as the EOS Project Scientist for Calibration and Data Product Evaluation.