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Dr. Franco Einaudi
Director
Earth Sciences Division
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD 20771
ph (301) 614-5634
Franco.Einaudi@nasa.gov
Dr. Franco Einaudi is the Director of the Earth Sciences Division of the Sciences
and Exploration Directorate at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,
Maryland.
In this position, Dr. Einaudi is responsible for planning, organizing, and evaluating
a broad program of scientific research, both theoretical and experimental,
in the study of the Earth. The
program ranges from basic research to flight experiment development, to mission
operations and data analysis.
Prior to becoming Division Director, Einaudi
was the Director of Earth Sciences (2001-2005), Chief of the Laboratory for
Atmospheres (1990-2000), and Head of the Severe Storms Branch, now called the
Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (1988-1990).
Einaudi's career has included
two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Department of the University
of Toronto, ten years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences of the
University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, and seven and a half years at
the Georgia Institute of Technology as Professor of Geophysical Sciences.
A native of Turin, Italy, Einaudi received his bachelor's degree from the Politecnico
of Turin, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering with specialization in plasma
physics and atmospheric sciences from Cornell University. An atmospheric dynamicist,
Einaudi is recognized nationally and internationally by his peers for his work
on gravity waves, gravity waves/turbulence interaction, propagation of gravity
waves in a moist atmosphere, and the role of gravity waves in initiating and
interacting with storms.
Dr. Einaudi is a fellow of the American Meteorological
Society, a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, a fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the American Geophysical
Union. Einaudi has served on numerous committees and panels for the National
Science Foundation, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR),
the National Research Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA), various universities and other national and international organizations.
He served as President of the American Meteorological Society (2006).
