JoBea Way Holt explained

Nickname:JoBea Holt, JoBea Way Holt
Birth Name:JoBea Way
Birth Place:Lorain, Ohio, U.S.
Known For:Sally Ride EarthKAM

JoBea Way Holt (born 1954) is an American planetary scientist who has worked for NASA. Holt studied the carbon cycle in Earth's atmosphere. She is also a member of the Climate Project,[1] and is the author of several books and research papers.

Biography

Holt was born in Lorain, Ohio.[2] Holt states that she was inspired to get into science by watching the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing. She attended University of California, Berkeley for her undergrad degree in chemistry and did her master's and Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in planetary sciences. At Caltech, she worked with Tom Jukes studying decontamination procedures used with the Viking spacecraft.

Holt began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1976. When the second space shuttle flight carrying the first shuttle-borne imaging radar (SIR) went up, Holt became interested in how to study the Earth from space. Her discoveries about carbon flux in the atmosphere around boreal forests contributed to a greater understanding of the carbon cycle.

She was an elected member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Administrative Committee (AdCom) from 1990 through 1995, and was one of the first women involved in that capacity.

Holt is one of the creators of KidSat (later named Sally Ride EarthKAM) in 1995.[3] She first became involved in the project in 1993.

Holt has been published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,[4] [5] Ecology,[6] BioScience,[7] the International Journal of Remote Sensing,[8] the Journal of Geophysical Research,[9] and the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.[10] She also does research for NASA.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Climate Scientists and Students Come Together for Climate Day 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20130216201010/http://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/spotlights/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=327. dead. 16 February 2013. 1 April 2008. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. 9 April 2016.
  2. September 1996. GRSS Awards Presented at IGARSS'9. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 34. 5. 1054. 10.1109/TGRS.1996.536520. 1996ITGRS..34.1053W. Wiesbeck. W.. Carver. K. R.. Takagi. M.. Tomiyasu. K..
  3. Book: Mattern, Joanne. Sally Ride: Astronaut. Ferguson. 2006. 9781438112039. 73.
  4. Way. J.. Smith. E. A.. 1991-11-01. The evolution of synthetic aperture radar systems and their progression to the EOS SAR. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 29. 6. 962–985. 10.1109/36.101374. 0196-2892. 1991ITGRS..29..962W . 5156064.
  5. McDonald. K. C.. Zimmermann. R.. Way. J.. Chun. W.. 1999-07-01. Automated instrumentation for continuous monitoring of the dielectric properties of woody vegetation: system design, implementation, and selected in situ measurements. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37. 4. 1880–1894. 10.1109/36.774701. 0196-2892. 1999ITGRS..37.1880M . 2925466.
  6. Ustin. Susan L.. Susan Ustin. Wessman. Carol A.. Curtiss. Brian. Kasischke. Eric. Way. JoBea. Vanderbilt. Vern C.. 1991-01-01. Opportunities for Using the Eos Imaging Spectrometers and Synthetic Aperture Radar in Ecological Models. Ecology. 72. 6. 1934–1945. 1941548.
  7. Waring. Richard H.. Way. JoBea. Hunt. E. Raymond. Morrissey. Leslie. Ranson. K. Jon. Weishampel. John F.. Oren. Ram. Franklin. Steven E.. 1995-01-01. Imaging Radar for Ecosystem Studies. 1312677. BioScience. 45. 10. 715–723. 10.2307/1312677.
  8. WAY. JOBEA. PARIS. JACK. KASISCHKE. ERIC. SLAUGHTER. CHARLES. VIERECK. LESLIE. CHRISTENSEN. NORMAN. DOBSON. MYRON C.. ULABY. FAWWAZ. RICHARDS. JOHN. 1990-07-01. The effect of changing environmental conditions on microwave signatures of forest ecosystems: preliminary results of the March 1988 Alaskan aircraft SAR experiment. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 11. 7. 1119–1144. 10.1080/01431169008955084. 0143-1161. 1990IJRS...11.1119W .
  9. Way. JoBea. Zimmermann. Reiner. Rignot. Eric. McDonald. Kyle. Oren. Ram. 1997-12-26. Winter and spring thaw as observed with imaging radar at BOREAS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. en. 102. D24. 29673–29684. 10.1029/96JD03878. 2156-2202. 1997JGR...10229673W. free.
  10. Kasischke. Eric S.. Morrissey. Leslie. Way. Jobea. French. Nancy H. F.. Bourgeau-Chavez. Laura L.. Rignot. Eric. Stearn. Joel A.. Livingston. Gerald P.. 1995-06-01. Monitoring Seasonal Variations in Boreal Ecosystems Using Multi-Temporal Spaceborne SAR Data. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 21. 2. 96–109. 10.1080/07038992.1995.10874605. 0703-8992. 1995CaJRS..21...96K .
  11. Web site: NASA Post-2002 Land Surface Hydrology Missions. NOAA. 2016-04-07.

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