Steve GoodmanCenter for Satellite Applications and ResearchDeputy Director
Dr. Goodman's research specialization includes the remote sensing of thunderstorms, lightning, and precipitation processes, and the application of space-based remote sensing to improve short-range forecasts to mitigate the impacts of convective weather hazards. In 2001 he received the NASA Medal for Exceptional Scientific Achievement for his research on severe storms. In support of current and planned missions Dr. Goodman is serving as a technical advisor to the GOES-R Program Office, is a voting member of the Source Evaluation Board for the formulation and implementation of the GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper, and is the Team Lead for the GOES-R Lightning Applications Team. He also continues in his role as a Co- Investigator on the NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Lightning Imaging Sensor (TRMM/LIS) Instrument Team. Dr. Goodman is a past member of various AMS and AGU technical committees and is currently an Associate Editor of JGR-Atmospheres. He earned his PhD in Systems Engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville, MS in Meteorology from the University of Oklahoma, and BA in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dr. Goodman is an internationally recognized expert in thunderstorm physics and lightning with more than 60 refereed papers, book chapters, and reports. Selected PublicationsChronis, T. G., S. J. Goodman, D. Cecil, D. Buechler, F. R. Robertson, J. Pittman, and R. J. Blakeslee, 2007: "Global Lightning Activity from an ENSO Perspective," Geophys. Res. Lett., accepted. Goodman, S., D. Buechler, and E. McCaul. 2007: "Lightning," chapter in "Our Changing Planet: The View from Space," Michael D. King, Claire L. Parkinson, Kim C. Partington, and Robin G. Williams, ed., Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521828703. Mach, D., H. Christian, R. Blakeslee, D. Boccippio, S. Goodman, and W. Boeck. 2007: "Performance Assessment of the Optical Transient Detector and Lightning Imaging Sensor. Part II: Clustering Algorithm," J. Geophys. Res., 112, D09210, doi:10.1029/2006JD007787. Goodman, S. J., R. Blakeslee, H. Christian, W. Koshak, J. Bailey, J. Hall, E. McCaul, D. Buechler, C. Darden, J. Burks, T. Bradshaw, and P. Gatlin. 2005: The North Alabama Lightning Mapping Array: Recent Severe Storm Observations and Future Prospects, Special Issue (ICAE) of Atmospheric Research, 76, 423-437. Williams, E., V. Mushtak, D. Rosenfeld, S. Goodman, and D. Boccippio. 2005: Thermodynamic Conditions Favorable to Superlative Thunderstorm Updraft, Mixed Phase Microphysics and Lightning Flash Rate, Special Issue (ICAE) of Atmospheric Research, 76, 288-306. Cecil, D. J., Steven J. Goodman, Dennis J. Boccippio, Edward J. Zipser and Stephen W. Nesbitt. 2005: Three Years of TRMM Precipitation Features. Part I: Radar, Radiometric, and Lightning Characteristics. Monthly Weather Review: Vol. 133, No. 3, pp. 543–566. Boeck, W. L., D. M. Suszcynsky, T. E. Light, A. R. Jacobson, H. J. Christian, S. J. Goodman, D. E. Buechler, and J. L. L. Guillen. 2004: A Demonstration of the Capabilities of Multisatellite Observations of Oceanic Lightning, J. Geophys. Res., 109, D17204, doi:10.1029/2003JD004491. E-mail: Steve.Goodman@noaa.gov NOAA / NESDIS / Office of Research and Applications |
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Dr. Goodman is the Deputy Director
of the Office of Research and Applications in NOAA's Satellite and
Information Service (NESDIS). He is responsible for the day-to-day
functioning of the office, comprised of three divisions and five
cooperative institutes, and having a staff of approximately 100 NOAA
civil service scientists, technologists, and administrative personnel
and an affiliated technical workforce of approximately 100 researchers
funded through cooperative agreements and contracts. Dr. Goodman is the
Co-Chair of the NESDIS Satellite Products and Services Review Board
(SPSRB), a member of the NOAA Monitoring Research Committee, and a US
representative to the WMO World Weather Research Program Nowcasting
Working Group. He supports the office director with NOAA executive
level functions such as the NOAA Research Council and the NOAA
Transition Board. In these roles he oversees the development of
satellite research and its transition into viable and sustainable
applications, as well as charting the direction and composition of
research within NOAA. Dr. Goodman came to NOAA in March 2007 following a
20-year federal career as a scientist and manager at NASA's Marshall
Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. This period of government
service also included a brief detail in 2003-2004 as a Program Manager
in the Earth Science Division at NASA Headquarters. At NASA Headquarters
he initiated an ad-hoc NASA-NOAA working group to improve the Transition
from Research to Operations, and he served on the interagency USGEO
Planning and Integration Team where helped develop the Ten-Year US
Strategic Plan for Integrated Earth Observations. At MSFC he wore
multiple hats serving most recently as the Manager of the Earth Science
Office, as the Principal Investigator and Lead Scientist for Nowcasting
at the Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center, and
as an Adjunct Professor of Atmospheric Science at the University of
Alabama in Huntsville. The MSFC Earth Science Office conducted research
and applied science in the atmospheric, hydrologic, and geologic
sciences using space, sub-orbital, ancillary in-situ and surface
observing systems, and used various models to integrate the observations
and advance our knowledge of the earth system.