Alejandro Egido wins the 2019 NOAA David Johnson Award
 17 December 2019 -
The prestigious and highly competitive Dave Johnson award recognizes
innovation and achievement of young professionals in the use of satellite
data for operational and environmental applications.
Dr. Egido is being recognized "For developing and demonstrating a
novel analytic technique, Fully-Focused Synthetic Aperture Radar
altimetry, which dramatically improves the along-track resolution
of a new generation of high-rate satellite radar altimeters".
Alejandro has been with the Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry since 2015,
and he currently serves as the NOAA Jason Measurement System Engineer. He is employed
by Global Science & Technology, Inc. and is a Visiting Assistant Research
Scientist at the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
(ESSIC).
Past David Johnson Award Winners from STAR
- 2018
Scott D. Rudlosky
- 2017
Dan Lindsey
- 2015
Michael J. Pavolonis
- 2004
John Knaff
- 1999
Fuzhong Weng
The Award will be presented 20 March 2020 during the National Space
Club's Robert Goddard Memorial Dinner at the Washington Hilton.
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