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Members

The purpose of the Core Systems performance Assessment Team (Core-SAT) is to provide authoritative scientific and performance assessment support to NESDIS in its efforts to plan for the next generation of environmental remote sensing satellite programs. The primary area of support will be on codifying performance requirements and conducting scientific investigations to answer questions that arise in the course of architecture, formulation, and execution design steps and to assess resulting performances against NESDIS mission requirements. Core-SAT members must be federal employees.


The Associate Members are subject matter experts (SMEs) in a diverse set of areas. The principal role of the Associate Members is to present briefings, provide individual opinions and thoughts on a diverse set of technical subjects related to sensors impacts and pros and cons of methodologies. Associate Members are under signed Non-Disclosure agreement (NDA) and no-Conflict of interest (COI) agreements in order to be able to participate in the SAT discussions. The Associate Members, who could be feds or non-feds, do not participate in decision-making or recommendation-making processes. The Core-SAT does not request or accept consensus advice from these Associate Members, nor will NOAA or NESDIS.


Members of the SAT are from a diverse set of institutions, including NOAA, other federal agencies, contractors, academic institutions, and the private sector. The driving factor in the membership selection is the right expertise to solve particular problems.


Below is a list of membership and functions of the SAT:

Member Affiliation Expertise Status of NDA
Mitch Goldberg, Chair NOAA/NESDIS NESDIS Senior Scientist NOAA Fed
Sid Boukabara, SAT Chair NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP Data assimilation, New technologies, Microwave remote sensing NOAA Fed
Frank Gallagher SAT Co-Chair NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP IPT Lead and Chief NESDIS Architect NOAA Fed
Dave Spencer NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP IPT Lead and Lead Engineer NOAA Fed
Dan Lindsey NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R GOES-R Program Scientist NOAA Fed
Satya Kalluri NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS Chief, STAR Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division NOAA Fed
Andrew Heidinger NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R Geo Senior Scientist NOAA Fed
Irfan Azeem NOAA/NESDIS/OPPA Space Weather NOAA Fed
G Affiliation Expertise Status of NDA
*Sid Boukabara, Chair NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP Data assimilation, New technologies, Microwave remote sensing NOAA Fed
*Frank Gallagher, Co-Chair NOAA/NESDIS/OSSAP IPT Lead and Chief NESDIS Architect NOAA Fed
Kevin Garrett NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Microwave products, data fusion, data assimilation, NWP NOAA Fed
Jim Gleason NASA Science/Engineering NASA Fed
*Mitch Goldberg NOAA/NESDIS NESDIS Senior Scientist NOAA Fed
*Dan Lindsey NOAA/NESDIS/GOES-R GOES-R Program Scientist, ABI/AHI imagery NOAA Fed
Will McCarty NASA/GMAO NWP NASA Fed
Kevin Schrab NOAA/NWS/Office of Observations Impact assessments and ground processing requirements NOAA Fed
Steve Swadley DoD/NRL MW remote sensing & cal/val DoD Fed
*Patricia Weir NOAA/NESDIS/OSSAP Systems Engineering/Program Management NOAA Fed
Flavio Iturbide-Sanchez NOAA/NESDIS/STAR IR and MW Remote sensing, Small satellites and Emerging remote sensing technologies NOAA Fed
Edward J. Kim NASA MW and Lidar remote sensing NASA Fed
David G. Johnson NASA IR remote sensing NASA Fed
*Satya Kalluri NOAA/NESDIS/JPSS Chief, STAR Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division NOAA Fed
Jim Yoe NOAA/NWS MW, IR, and RO remote sensing, impact assessments NOAA Fed
Brian Gockel NOAA/NWS/Office of Observations Impact assessments and ground processing requirements NOAA Fed
Jordan Gerth NOAA/NWS MW and IR remote sensing, impact assessments, ground processing requirements NOAA Fed
Lidia Cucurull NOAA/OAR/AOML Remote sensing, impact assessments NOAA/Fed
*David Spencer NOAA/NESDIS/OSSAP Strategic planning NOAA/Fed
Antonia Gambacorta NASA Hyperspectral and Lidar remote sensing NASA Fed
*Andrew Heidinger NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Geo Senior Scientist NOAA Fed
Michael J. Scott NASA Remote sensing NASA Fed
Monika Kopacz NOAA/Climate Program Office NOAA Fed
David Helms NOAA/NESDIS/OSAAP NOAA Fed
Richard Stumpf NOAA NOAA Fed
Shobha Kondragunta NOAA NOAA Fed
Lawrence E Flynn NOAA NOAA Fed
Daryl Kleist NOAA NOAA Fed
Meredith Wagner NOAA NOAA Fed
Vanessa Escobar NOAA NOAA Fed
Michael Bonadonna NOAA Space Weather NOAA Fed
Cara Wilson NOAA/NMFS Satellite Oceanographer NOAA Fed
Jessica Knizhnik NASA NASA Fed

* denotes SAT board members

Member Affiliation Expertise Status of NDA
Rick Anthes UCAR SPRWG Chairman, radio occultation, NWP Signed
Stacy Bunin Riverside Satellite products, research to operations Signed
Ana Carrion VELOS Coordination, Planning Signed
Mike Hardesty CIRES Wind profiling Signed
Ross Hoffman UMD Data assimilation, NWP Signed
Eric Maddy Riverside IR remote sensing Signed
Paul Menzel Univ. of Wisconsin IR remote sensing Signed
Chris Velden Univ. of Wisconsin MW, IR, 3D winds remote sensing, impact assessments Signed
Marc Wigdor Aerospace Consultant/review of the requirements Signed
Kat Hawley NOAA/NESDIS/STAR User requirements NOAA Fed
Bungo Shiotani NASA IR and MW remote sensing Signed
Valerie J. Mikles NASA Remote sensing, space weather Signed
Likun Wang UMD IR, MW, and RO remote sensing Signed
Lynn Mayo NOAA/NESDIS NOAA Fed
Hu (Tiger) Yang UMD Passive microwave radiometer calibration/validation Signed
Kayo Ide UMD Impact assessment of new satellite sensors (OSSEs) Signed
James Reagan UMD Artificial IntelligenceMachine Learning for quality control of oceanographic Signed
Peng Yu CISESS/UMD Satellite data retrieval algorithms and validation, numerical modeling and data assimilation Signed
veljko Petkovic CISESS/UMD Development and improvement of passive microwave satellite retrievals for low earth orbiting constellation Signed
E. Hugo Berbery CISESS/UMD Research Progessor & CICS-MD Director Signed
Lin Lin CISESS/UMD Calibration, validation inter-calibration, and meteorological applications of instruments (ATMS,CiIS,VllRS, and OMPS) Signed
Fangfang Yu CISESS/UMD Calibration and validation of the optical instruments- also (remote sensing of vegetation and vegetation response to climatic variation Signed
Xi Shao CISESS/UMD Radiometric calibration and validation work Signed
Zhipeng (Ben) Wang CISESS/UMD radiometric, spectral and spatial calibration/validation Signed
Andrew Schuh CIRA GHG flux estimation, data assimilation and modeling Signed
Yoo-Jeong Noh CIRA Cloud Retrievals for aviation applications Signed
Prasanjit Dash CIRA Integrated products from diverse data streams w. Focus on SST Sgned
Steven Fletcher CIRA Non-Gaussian Data Assimilation Signed
Haidao Lin CIRA IR Data Assimilation Signed
Andrew Jones CIRA Assimilation of water vapor, cloud and precipitation Signed
Imme Ebert-Uphoff CIRA Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Signed
John Haynes CIRA Remote sensing of three-dimensional clouds and precipitation Signed
Christian Kummerow CIRA Microwave radiative transfer, satellite intercalibration, Optimal Signed
R. Bradley Pierce CIMSS Signed
Gerald J. Dittberner CIRA Satellite operations and history; High latitude orbirts for continuous sensing Signed
Allen Huang CIMSS Signed
Sheldon Kusselson CIRA Satellite moisture and rain estimation application Signed
John Forsythe CIRA Integrate products from diverse data streams w.focus on Water Vapor Signed
Jim Jung CIMSS Signed
Steven Miller CIRA Vis/IR radative transfer, RGB Imagery, Night-time visible remote sensing Signed
Kenneth E. Yienger NASA Sounder Project Mission Systems Engineer NASA Fed
Louis Cantrell Profitable Weather, LLC Users Engagement Signed
Chung-Yu Wu Riverside Signed
Cara Wilson NOAA Fisheries and general users needs for marine scientists NOAA Fed
Meredith Wagner NOAA NOAA Fed
Gregory Frost NOAA NOAA Fed
Otto Bruegman NOAA NOAA Fed
Philip Ardanuy INNOVIM Signed
Shu-Peng Ho NOAA NOAA Fed
Kelly Collett NASA Signed
Isaac Moradi UMD Radiative Transfer Modelling, OSSE, and Satellite Data Assimilation Signed
Nazmi Chowdhury STC Signed
Limin Zhao NOAA NOAA Fed
Jean-Luc Moncet RTi Signed
Bruce Campbell Aerospace Signed
Thomas Vonderhaar CIRA Signed
Renate Brummer CIRA N/A
Narges Shahroudi RTi Signed
Member Affiliation Role Status of NDA
Sid Boukabara NOAA/NESDIS Project Lead NOAA Fed
Stacy Bunin Riverside Manager Signed
Rod Cardenas Riverside IT and Web Developer Signed
Ross Hoffman UMD Science Signed
Louis Cantrell Profitable Weather, LLC Users Engagement
Eric Maddy Riverside Analysis and Assessment Signed
Narges Shahroudi Riverside Pre-processing Signed
Monica Coakley MIT-LL Sensors Performance Assessment
Ana Carrion Velos Logistics Signed
Roberto Montoro (Former Member) NOAA IT and Web Developer
Maurice McHugh (Former Member) NOAA Manager NOAA Fed