Contact Info:
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M/S 233-200
4800 Oak Grove Drive
Pasadena, CA 91109
Phone: 818.354.6319
Biography:
David J. Diner received the B.S. degree in physics with honors from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1973 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in planetary science from the California Institute of Technology in 1977 and 1978, respectively. He has been at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory since 1978, first as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate, then as a contractor with Ball Aerospace, and since 1981 as a JPL employee. He is currently a Senior Research Scientist in the Earth Atmospheric Sciences Section. He has been involved in numerous NASA planetary and Earth remote-sensing investigations, and is the recipient of both the NASA Outstanding Leadership and Exceptional Achievement medals. He presently Principal Investigator of the EOS Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer (MISR) satellite experiment and the Ground-based and Airborne Multiangle SpectroPolarimetric Imagers (GroundMSPI/AirMSPI). He is a member of the American Geophysical Union and the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
