Welcome to the 7 new members of the Science Team!

We welcome this year seven new members in the GHRSST Science Team. You will find their short profiles and photos here below. Please give them a warm welcome and do not hesitate to involve them in current GHRSST activities and in the Task Teams.

  • Mingkun Liu, College of Marine Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, China
  • Rishi Kumar Gangwar, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
  • Mark Worsfold, Met Office, United Kingdom
  • Daniele Ciani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Italy
  • Cristina González Haro, Institut de Cièncias del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Spain
  • Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Products Operations (OSPO), USA
  • Neeraj Agarwal, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India

Top row from left to right: Rishi Kumar Gangwar, Cristina González Haro, Mark Worsfold

Bottom row from left to right: Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, Mingkun Liu, Daniele Ciani, Neeraj Agarwal

 

Their profiles:

Mingkun Liu, College of Marine Technology, Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China
Dr. Liu received the Ph.D. degrees in Marine Detection Technology from the Ocean University of China (2019). Dr. Liu research interests include inter-calibration of thermal infrared and microwave sensors, sea surface temperature retrieval and validation.
Email: liumingkun@ouc.edu.cn

Rishi Kumar Gangwar, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
Dr. Kumar Gangwar received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi and Gujarat University, Ahmedabad, India in 2007 and 2016, respectively. Dr. Rishi Kumar Gangwar research interests include satellite remote sensing of sea surface temperature, atmospheric temperature and humidity profiles, radiative transfer simulation, development of AI/ML based retrieval algorithms etc.
Email: rgphybhu@gmail.com

Mark Worsfold, Met Office, United Kingdom
Mark Worsfold received a BSc. in Physics and MSc. in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology from Swansea University. His research interests are sea surface temperature remote sensing and Marine Heatwaves.
Email: mark.worsfold@metoffice.gov.uk

Daniele Ciani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR), Italy
Dr. Ciani received the M.Sc. in Physics at the University of Rome “Sapienza” and a Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography from Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO, Brest, FR). Dr. Ciani research interests include satellite Sea Surface Temperature (SST) remote sensing, SST studies for ocean dynamics applications, SST diurnal warming and the development of future satellite missions for the SST retrieval.
Email: daniele.ciani@cnr.it

Cristina González Haro, Institut de Cièncias del Mar (ICM-CSIC) and Barcelona Expert Center (BEC), Spain
Dr. González Haro received the M.Sc and Ph.D degrees in 2010 and 2015, respectively, from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Dr. González-Haro research interests include Ocean Remote Sensing, with special emphasis in the exploitation of remote sensing data to study and investigate the dynamics of the ocean’s upper layers. Sensing, with special emphasis in the exploitation of remote sensing data to study and investigate the dynamics of the ocean’s upper layers.
Email: cgharo@icm.csic.es

Sheekela Baker-Yeboah, NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Products Operations (OSPO), USA
Dr. Baker-Yeboah received her Ph.D. in Oceanography University of Rhode Island. Currently Dr. Baker-Yeboah works as a Physical Scientist (ZP-4) at NOAA/NESDIS/Office of Satellite and Products Operations (OSPO) as the Product Area Lead for both Sea Surface Temperature and Ocean Color satellite data. Dr. Baker-Yeboah interests include: Dynamical processes of upper and deep ocean vortices and interocean exchanges in the southeastern South Atlantic using analytical/numerical simulations and data assimilation of information from satellites and in-situ instruments.
Email: Sheekela.Baker-Yeboah@noaa.gov

Neeraj Agarwal, Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), India
Dr. Agarwal received his PhD Degree in Science from Gujarat University in 2008 and his Master’s degree in Physics from Delhi University.
Dr. Neeraj Agarwal research interests include: Analysing Fine scale features (such as fronts/filaments) in the ocean, performing observing system simulation experiments for future sensor design, numerical modelling of the ocean and satellite data assimilation, climate change.
Email: neeraj@sac.isro.gov.in, dabloo99@gmail.com