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Dr. Paul Lawson is President and CEO of SPEC Inc. Dr. Lawson received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University in 1969 and graduate degrees in Atmospheric Science from the University of Wyoming in 1972 and 1988. He has been heavily involved in the development of instrumentation and analysis of meteorological data for more than two decades. He has participated in over 50 meteorological field programs as scientist and/or pilot including.
Dr. Lawson is a past member of the AMS committee on cloud physics and a member of the NASA FIRE, TRMM, Crystal-Face and MidCix science teams. He was an invited speaker at the 1998 Gordon conference on Solar Radiation and Climate and he received the 1999 editor's award from the Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. Dr. Lawson participated in both the 2001 and 2002 South Pole field experiments and is well acquainted with policies and procedures on the Antarctic continent. Dr. Lawson's broad base of experience as a cloud physicist and an instrumentation engineer make him uniquely qualified to head this atmospheric research and instrumentation company. Contact Paul
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Dr. Bradley A. Baker is a research scientist/physicist. Dr. Baker earned a B.A. in applied mathematics from the University of Washington in 1982. He received the Ph.D. in Geosciences from the University of Washington in 1988. Dr. Baker held the position of Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMIMT) from 1992 to June 1998. In May 1999, he joined SPEC Incorporated as a research scientist/physicist. Dr. Baker has done research and published in several areas, including turbulence, microphysics, radar and the performance of cloud particle probes. He is currently conducting laboratory experiments under an NSF grant to SPEC to evaluate the performance of the CPI. He is a past member of the AMS Committee on Cloud Physics. He is a Principal investigator for the 2004-2005 NSF RICO field program. Contact Brad
Dr. Qixu Mo is a research scientist. Dr. Mo received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1983 and a M.S. in Space Physics in 1986 from Wuhan University. He received a Ph.D. with emphasis on Atmospheric Science from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (UMIMT) in 1997. Dr. Mo has 12 year' experience in research aircraft instrumentation, field projects, and data analysis as well as post-doctoral experience in thunderstorm cloud research. He has published in several areas, including microphysics, electric field measurements and electrification of thunderstorms. Dr. mo was the recipient of the Marvin Wilkening Award in 1998 for excellence in experimental physics and a member of the american Geophysical Union. He joined SPEC in 2002. Contact "Mo"
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Mr. Darren O'Connor is the senior electrical engineer at SPEC and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon Institute of Technology (Suma Cum Laude) and a Master of Science degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder specializing in electromagnetics. While at the University of Colorado, Mr. O'Connor was the lead design engineer for the command and data handling hardware system for the student designed Student Nitric Oxide Explorer (SNOE) satellite, managing a team of 4 students on the project, as well as designing the satellite's torque rods for attitude control. Mr. O'Connor later worked for Droplet Measurement Technologies (DMT), where, as the company's electrical and systems engineer, he designed the Cloud Imaging Probe, the Cloud Aerosol Spectrometer, and the Flux Aerosol Spectrometer electronics systems. While at SPEC, Mr. O'Connor has led the electrical engineering group to design the UAV CPI, 2D-S and In-Situ LIDAR instruments. He specializes in applying a well-rounded knowledge of digital signal processing, analog circuitry and logic design to diverse problems. Contact Darren Mr. Pat Zmarzly is a Senior Optical / Mechanical Engineer at SPEC, Incorporated. Mr. Zmarzly received the B.S. in Mechanical Engineering magna cum laude from Bradley University in 1991 and the M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 1993 from the University of Colorado. While at CU, he developed a Laser Doppler Velocimeter system for use in combusting flow studies. He joined SPEC in December 1997 after five years at Monitor Labs in Denver, where he designed and built electro-optical instrumentation for environmental monitoring and control. During his work at Monitor Labs, he was named as co-inventor on a patent for a tunable diode laser instrument for monitoring NH3 in effluents from power plants. While working at SPEC, Mr. Zmarzly has been responsible for the optical and mechanical design, analysis, fabrication, system integration, and testing of several instruments from conception through production such as the airborne Cloud Extinctiometer, the UAV CPI, the TBCPI, the 2D stereo probe (2D-S), and the In Situ Cloud Lidar. He has supervised and participated in several instrument field tests and aircraft integration projects. Contact Pat
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