Andrew Thorpe completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. His dissertation research focused on developing techniques for mapping and quantifying methane emissions from local sources using airborne imaging spectrometers. While in graduate school, he spent two and a half years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory planning two AVIRIS-NG flight campaigns for methane detection and performing sensitivity analyses to determine gas detection limits of algorithms and spectrometers. During this time, he was also awarded a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship (NESSF). By developing methods of directly attributing emissions to individual point sources, this research aims to help constrain regional methane sources with potential implications for environmental monitoring and a better understanding of methane’s role in climate. A PBS NewsHour piece featuring a day of AVIRIS-NG flights as part of the California Baseline Methane Survey can be viewed here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/nasa-scientists-track-climate-changing-methane-leaks-from-the-airAndrew has a background in earth sciences, receiving a B.S. in geology from Brown University and working as a researcher at the Free University in Berlin, Germany to interpret imagery from the HRSC Camera on ESA’s Mars Express mission. Previously, he worked in the world of commercial photography and environmental consulting in New York.Specialties: Remote sensing, imaging spectroscopy, atmospheric science, environmental auditing, visual communicationsMy publications can be found on my ResearchGate profile:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Thorpe2/?ev=hdr_xprf
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