Joseph L. Eastman, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Hydrological Sciences

GSFC Code:

614.3

Mailing Address:

Hydrological Sciences Branch
Building 22, Room 010
NASA GSFC, Code 614.3
Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

Phone:

(410) 279-9702

Email:

Joseph.L.Eastman.1@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Regional climate modeling, hurricane research, tropical meteorology, parallel computing.

Biography:

After receiving a B.A. in physics from the University of Minnesota, Dr. Joseph L. Eastman was employed by Dr. Walter A. Lyons in 1987; he aided in the design of a ground conductivity model for use in simulating a lightning detection network. He also performed a considerable amount of meteorological and dispersion modeling for the Kennedy Space Center while employed by Dr. Lyons. In 1990, he was accepted to the graduate school at Colorado State University. Under the guidance of Dr. Roger A. Pielke, he achieved his masters in 1994 and his Ph.D. in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology in 1999. His most recent work concentrates on the assessment of climate change, with special examination of the relative contributions of CO2 and human-induced land change. In his postdoctoral appointment, he was in charge of providing direction for the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) national modeling efforts on massively parallel platforms. This included coupling meteorological models to synchronous and asynchronous ecosystem models. In his last Research Associate position under Dr. Roger Pielke, he continued regional climate research using coupled atmospheric and ecological models. He is currently investigating the effects of land-surface interactions on hurricanes.