Email: david.crisp@jpl.nasa.gov
VPL Focus: Task E (Lead)
Bio:
Dr. David Crisp is an atmospheric physicist and a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.
Since receiving his Ph.D. from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at Princeton University in 1984, he has focused primarily on the development of radiative transfer algorithms for remote sensing and climate models of Venus, Earth, and Mars. Dr. Crisp has served on the science teams of several missions including the Venus VEGA Balloon Mission, Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), Mars Pathfinder Lander Atmospheric Structure Instrument, Mars Polar Lander MVACS Meteorology Experiment, and ESA Venus Express. He contributed to the NASA technology program by developing in situ atmospheric structure and meteorological instruments and serving as the Chief Scientist of the NASA New Millennium Program, from 1998 to 2001.
Dr. Crisp was the Principal Investigator of the Earth System Science Pathfinder (ESSP) Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) mission, NASA’s first dedicated carbon dioxide measurement mission. He is currently serving as the Science Lead of the OCO-2 Mission.