Samuelraj Jacob, Assistant Research Scientist

GEST Research Group:

Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory

GSFC Code:

614.4

Mailing Address:

Hydrological and Biospheric Sciences
Aerospace Building, Room 542
10210 Greenbelt Road
Lanham, MD 20706 USA

Phone:

(301) 614-5906

Fax:

Email:

Samuelraj.D.Jacob@nasa.gov

Research Interests:

Research Interest Text

Biography:

Dr. S. Daniel Jacob received a B.E. (Hons.) in Civil Engineering from the Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai, India, a Masters degree in Ocean Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He worked for a few years at the Indian Space Research Organization analyzing Synthetic Aperture Radar data of ocean surface waves and other satellite data before pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Miami. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science in 2000. His dissertation examined the upper ocean heat budget variability due to oceanic mesoscale variability and its effect on the intensification of tropical cyclones. He served as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Miami, where he was involved in acquiring oceanographic data from the NOAA hurricane hunters using expendable probes and in the Eastern Pacific as part of the Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate project. He was appointed as an Assistant Research Scientist in GEST in May 2002 based in the Oceans and Ice Branch at GSFC. As a member of Aquarius science team, Daniel conducts research on the effects of surface forcing and ocean mixing on sea surface salinity and also leads an effort to identify an appropriate mixing scheme for use in coupled predictive models of hurricane intensity.