
Pam
Emch is a Senior Staff Engineer with
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
in Redondo Beach, California. For over 15 years she has worked in Northrop's
Civil Space business area on weather, climate, and environmental remote sensing
and information technology activities supporting
NOAA,
NASA,
DoD,
and international customers. She served as Northrop's system engineering
and science interface to the
NPOESS
government program office in Silver Spring, Maryland for two years. Prior to that
Dr. Emch managed development of end-to-end physics/instrument/satellite remote
sensing simulations, archives for environmental multimedia data, and led environmental
data-collection and application activities for hyperspectral airborne instruments.
Dr. Emch holds an
MS
degree in aerospace engineering from
USC
and a
PhD
degree in civil and environmental engineering (water resources) from
UCLA.