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James R. Campbell
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Dr. Campbell is a post-doctoral researcher at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, as a member of the Atmospheric Sciences Group. He received his Ph.D. in Atmospheric Sciences from UAF in 2006. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Meteorology from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. In between graduate degrees, he was a research meteorologist with Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, working in the Laboratory for Atmospheres at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. In February 2005, he was based at the National Institute for Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, as a visiting scientist. At NASA, he received an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2000 for contractor performance on behalf of the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch.

Dr. Campbell’s scientific experience and research/teaching interests come in the areas of atmospheric remote sensing, cloud and aerosol physics and applied meteorology. The focus of his work is the characterization of cloud and aerosol physical properties using lidar (light detection and ranging) instruments. He played a primary support role in the development of the global Micropulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) for the NASA Earth Observing System project begun in 2000, and serves now as a project science team member responsible for polar network sites and datasets. Dr. Campbell is the author of over twenty refereed journal publications and numerous regular papers and abstracts at national and international conferences.

 

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