Dr. John C. Gille
HIRDLS U.S. Principal Investigator
John Gille received a B.S. in Physics, magna cum laude, from Yale University,
an M.A. in Physics from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics
from MIT. Since 1977, he has served as Head of the Global Observations,
Modeling, and Optical Techniques Section of NCAR. Dr. Gille was Co-Senior
Scientist on LIMS, launched on Nimbus-7 in 1978, and was Principal Investigator
on LRIR, which flew on Nimbus-6 in 1975. He has been involved in CLAES
collaboration since 1982, with NOAA's development of GOMR, and on several
investigations analyzing satellite data. He is a Fellow of the American
Meteorological Society and the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, and was the recipient of the NCAR Technology Advancement Award
in 1978 and the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1982.