Current and Former Students and Collaborators
Collaborators
Dr. David Bates
David
earned his Ph.D. from the University of Miami with Dr. Ken Voss on
lidar algorithms and measurements and is an Assistant Researcher at UH
Manoa. David has worked at UH modeling atmospheric and oceanic
radiation with a custom Monte Carlo radiation code which he developed
in collaboration with John Porter. Information on this work is given in
the projects section. David is currently working with John Porter, Shiv
Sharma and Anupam Misra to develop a scanning, time-resolved standoff
Raman instrument for large area mineral detection on planetary
surfaces. David can be reached at:
David Bates
University of Hawaii
2525 Correa Rd.
Honolulu, HI 96822
phone: (808) 956-8302
email: bates@higp.hawaii.edu
Students
Andrew Frambach
Andrew
earned his Meteorology bachelor's degree at UH Manoa, and is currently
pursuing a master's degree. Andrew developed the current iteration of
the software used to process MODIS satellite and WRF data for use with
the aerosol optical depth algorithm. His software created the aerosol
optical depth images available in the AOD Image Archive attached to this website, and the archive itself. Andrew can be reached at andrew41@hawaii.edu.
Sheldon Kono
Sheldon
earned his Meteorology bachelor's degree at UH Manoa. He is now a
full-time programmer with the City and County of Honolulu.
Sheldon developed the first iteration of the software used to
process MODIS satellite data for use with the aerosol optical depth
algorithm, and much of his work forms the basis for the current version.
David Kress
David
earned his Meteorology bachelor's degree at UH Manoa. He is now a
full-time pilot at Island Air. David worked on instrument
development and field measurements.
Eric Lau
Eric
earned his Meteorology bachelor's and master's degrees at UH Manoa.
He is now working for the National Weather Service in Honolulu.
Eric worked on analysis of field measurements and computer programming.
Julia Waterspiel
While
Julia was studying for her master's degree at the University of Zurich,
Switzerland (Geography Remote Sensing), she visited UH Manoa to develop
a new lidar system that would be used for environmental measurements.
Other students have worked with John Porter but on a shorter time scale.
John Porter homepage