Jeff Dozier
Location:
- Santa Barbara, California, United States of America
Bio:
SIGGRAPH 1993
Jeff Dozier is a Principal Investigator on an interdisciplinary grant in NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS) and, with Michael Stonebraker of UC Berkeley, co-Principal Investigator on Digital Equipment Corporation’s flagship external research project, Sequoia 2000: Large Capacity Object Servers to Support Global Change Research. From 1990-1992 he served as the EOS Senior Project Scientist. He provides the perspective of a working scientist who is well versed about computing challenges in modern Earth science. He has published more than 150 articles, chapters, and books in his research interests: snow hydrology, Earth System Science, radiative transfer in snow, remote sensing and data systems, image processing, and terrain analysis. Jeff is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, Editor of Geophysical Research Letters, and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For the National Academy of Sciences, he is a co-author on two recent committee publications that surveyed the hydrologic and computational sciences: Opportunities in the Hydrologic Sciences (1991) and Computing the Future: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering (1992). Jeff is a Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was formerly a Senior Member of the Technical Staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and he was employed at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as a Visiting Scientist by Universities Space Research Association.