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Contact Info:
Global Environment Monitoring (GEM) Unit
European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC), TP 440
Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES)
Via Enrico Fermi, 1
I-21020 Ispra (VA), Italy
Phone: +39 03 32 78 55 07
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Biography:
Michel M. Verstraete received his License en Physique (1974) from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, his License Spéciale en Géophysique (1976) from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and both his M.Sc. in Meteorology (1978) and D.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences (1985) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA. He worked for the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and Nairobi, Kenya from 1979-1981 and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO from 1982-1989, taught at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 1989-1990, and has been working at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy thereafter. He is a member of MISR science team since 1995 and has contributed to various other space missions (e.g., MODIS, MERIS, Vegetation, Meteosat, GLI). He is a member of the Atmospheric and Terrestrial Panels of the Global Climate Observing System. His initial work on topics such as the modeling of atmosphere-biosphere interactions and desertification led him to his current interest in the exploitation of satellite remote sensing data for the quantitative characterization of terrestrial surface properties.
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