Pam
Emch is a Senior Staff Engineer/Scientist with
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
in Redondo Beach, California. For over 16 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. Most recently she was System Engineering, Integration,
and Test Lead on Northrop's
GOES-R
PDRR
Program. Before working on
GOES-R,
Dr. Emch spent eight years on Northrop's
NPOESS
Program effort, the last two years of which she served as Northrop's system
engineering and science interface to the
NPOESS
government program office in Silver Spring, Maryland. 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.
She is the Chair of the
AMS
Board on Enterprise Economic Development, and a member of the Executive Committee
of the
AMS
Commission on the Weather and Climate Enterprise.
(04/2009)
