Philip E. Ardanuy

Our upcoming centenary provides a meaningful opportunity for us to renew and transform our vision—to be as relevant 20 years from now as we are today.

The three-component nature of our Society, and its inherent diversity, are solid foundations for building and sustaining membership across the spectrum of Earth system sciences. As your Council member, I will focus on ensuring that the academic, operational, and private-sector components of our Society each remain vibrant, while collaborating more fully to produce synergies far outweighing the sum of our parts.

Together, we face three challenges:

  • Creating a shared vision that encourages the next generation across each of three components to join and actively participate as we build a weather, water-, and climate-ready nation. We do well as a scientific organization and with students, but must do more on the professional side to attract and retain young members by reminding them of the benefits their professional society provides them.
  • Embracing a dynamic and ever-changing information technology revolution within observation systems, modeling and data assimilation systems, forecast systems, information management and dissemination systems, analytics, applications, and social media.
  • The world demand for environmental intelligence in all its forms will only grow. In a world where information access is broad and instantaneous, and information interpretation abundant, AMS must not only serve as a voice of reason, but must also raise its voice of reason above the noise. The Society has done this effectively within our community. Now, we must position the Society to serve much broader audiences.

 My 30+ years’ experience as both an academic scientist and private sector engineer working on state-of-the-art observing and decision support systems has given me the insight to help address these challenges smartly. I pledge to remain steadfast in my support for achieving this vision, and ask for your support.

Ardanuy, Philip, E.,  Chief Science Officer at INNOVIM, Greenbelt, Maryland.  B.S., Meteorology, Florida State University (3.8 GPA), Tallahassee, FL, 1976; M.S., Meteorology, Florida State University (4.0 GPA), Tallahassee, FL, 1978; PhD Meteorology (4.0 GPA), Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1985.

Professional Experience: Research Assistant, Florida State University, 1976-1980; Meteorological Research Analyst, Research and Data Systems, 1980-1985; Director, Earth Sciences and Remote Sensing, Research and Data Systems, 1985-1990; Vice President, Atmospheric and Earth Sciences, 1990-1995, Research and Data Systems; Manager for Earth Sciences, 1995-1999, Hughes Aircraft Company; Chief Scientist and Solution Architect, 1999-2009, Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems; Principal Engineering Fellow and Weather Solution Architect, Raytheon Intelligence, Information, and Services, 2009-2015, Chief Science Officer at INNOVIM, 2015-

Professional Activities: Participant, First GARP Global Experiment (FGGE) Summer Monsoon Experiment, 1979-1980; Lead, Nimbus-6 and -7 on-orbit calibration/characterization team, 1980-1985; Contractor Lead, NOAA Operational Radiation Budget Observing System Simulation Experiment , 1985-1988; Elected Member, Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget Instrument Team, 1987-1995; Participant, Airborne Antarctic Ozone Experiment, 1987; Support Lead, MODIS Characterization Support Team and MODIS Science Data System Team, 1987-1991; Representative, EOS Project scientist and Project Science Office with the AIRS, ASTER, and MISR instrument teams; 1995-1997; Lead, Raytheon Science and Algorithm Team for the Visible and Infrared Imager/Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), 1996-2000; Member, NOAA CREST External Advisory Board, 1999-2012; Member, NRC Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, 2002-2004; Member, Applied Sciences Panel, The “Decadal Survey” (Earth Science Applications and Societal Needs of Earth Science and Applications From Space: A Community Assessment and Strategy for the Future), 2005-2006; Member, NRC Ad Hoc Committee on Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor De-scopes and De-manifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft, 2006-2008; Chief Technologist, Data Systems Implementation and Operations (DSIO) contract with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), 2006-2008; Member, NRC Ad Hoc Committee on Options to Ensure the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft, 2007-2008; Initiator and Lead, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR’s Enterprise Process Lifecycle (EPL) for transitioning applications from research into operations, 2007-2010; Chief Scientist / Technologist, Software Engineering and Specialized Scientific Support (SES3) contract with EPA Office of Research and Development, 2008-2012; Member, NASA Technology Roadmaps: Instruments and Computing Panel, 2011; Member, peer review panel for NASA’s Earth Sciences Technology Office (ESTO) Advanced Information Systems Technology (AIST) ROSES Solicitation, 2011 and 2014; COTR and Marine Integration Lead, NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) cyberinfrastructure, 2012-2014; Member, The “Decadal Survey” Mid-Term Assessment of NASA’s Earth Science Program, Earth Science and Applications from Space, 2010-2012; Member of the Board of Directors, Maryland Space Business Roundtable, 1997-2015; President, Maryland Space Business Roundtable, 2008-2011; Member, NOAA Science Advisory Board Environmental Information Services Working Group (EISWG), 2010-2015; Member, NASA Earth Sciences Advisory Board, 2013-2015; Participant, NOAA/NASA GOES-R Ground System Readiness Team, 2015.

AMS Activities: Member, AMS, 1976-present; Chair, AMS Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography Committee, 2006-2013; Member, Scientific Program Committee, AMS/EUMETSAT Joint Meteorological Satellite Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007; Chair, 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography in Annapolis, 2010. Member, AMS Nominating Committee, 2010; Member, Scientific Program Committee, AMS/EUMETSAT Joint Meteorological Satellite Conference in Cordoba, Spain, 2012; Member, Program Organizing Committee, 92nd AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, 2012; Chair, AMS/EUMETSAT Joint Meteorological Satellite Conference in Vienna, Austria, 2013; Member, AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, 2013-2015; Program Co-chair, 94th AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, 2014; Member, AMS Committee on Open Environmental Information Services, 2014-2015; Member, AMS Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology Committee, 2015.

Honors and Awards: Inducted into Chi Epsilon Pi, the honor society for outstanding meteorology students in the Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science at the Florida State University, 1976; Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, “the nation's oldest, largest, and most selective honor society,” 1979; Elected as member, Nimbus-7 Earth Radiation Budget Science Team, for on-orbit calibration and characterization leadership, 1985; Recipient, multiple NASA GSFC and LaRC group achievement awards, 1983-1995; Honored as Raytheon Engineering Fellow, 2007; Recipient, Raytheon Peer Award, 2004 for “dedication in the excellence in his work and unimagined expertise in algorithms, ground processing, mission understanding, and mission experience”; Recipient, Raytheon Excellence in Business Development award, 1990; Honored as Raytheon Principal Engineering Fellow, 2010; Honored as American Meteorological Society (AMS) Fellow, 2011.

Publications: (Selected from over 100 in the peer-reviewed and conference literature)On the Diurnal Oscillation of the Somali Jet. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 1979; A Three-Dimensional Planetary Boundary Layer Model for the Somali Jet. J. Atmos. Sci., 1980; On the Onset-Vortex of the Summer Monsoon. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 1980; The 10-20 Day Westward Propagating Mode and “Break in the Monsoons.” Tellus, 32, 1980; Observed Perturbations of the Earth’s Radiation Budget: A Response to the El Chichón Stratospheric Aerosol Layer. J. Climate Appl. Meteor., 25, 1986; El Niño and Outgoing Longwave Radiation: Observations from Nimbus-7 ERB. Mon. Wea. Rev., 1986; Evaluating the design of satellite scanning radiometers for Earth radiation budget measurements with computer simulations, IRS ’88: Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation, 1989; Longwave Cloud-Radiative Forcing as Determined from Nimbus-7 Observations. J. Climate, 1989; Estimating Climatic-Scale Precipitation from Space: A Review. J. Climate, 2, 1229-1238, 1989; Accuracy of ERB Measurements from the Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System Instrument (CERES-I). Proceedings of the SPIE Symposium on Earth Radiation Budget Measurements, 1990; The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Science and Data System Requirements, IEEE transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 28(6), 1990; A Comparison of Two Major Earth Radiation Budget Data Sets, Journal of Geophy. Research, Vol 95, D7, 1990; The Constrained Inversion of Nimbus-7 Wide Field-of-View Radiometer Measurements for the Earth Radiation Budget. Journal of Appl. Meterol. Vol. 29, 11, 1990; Low-Frequency Modes of the Tropical Radiation Budget. J. Meteor. Atmos. Phys., Special Issue “low Frequency Variability of the Monsoon,” 1990; Evaluating the Design of Satellite Scanning Radiometers for Earth Radiation Budget Measurements (CERES-I) with System Simulations, Part I: Instantaneous Estimates. NOAA/NESDIS Technical Publication, 1991; Shortwave, Longwave, and Net Cloud Radiative Forcing as Determined from Nimbus-7 Observations. JGR Atmospheres, 1991; Techniques to Build Advanced VIIRS Approaches for NPOESS Key EDRs, SPIE Proceedings, Earth Observing Systems VII, 2002; Utilization of Operational Environmental Satellite Data: Ensuring Readiness For 2010 And Beyond, Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, Space Studies Board, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2004; Antarctic Exploration: Proxy for Safe, Sustainable Exploration of the Moon and Mars, First AIAA Conference on Space Exploration, 2005;Telepresence Enabling Human and Robotic Space Exploration and Discovery: Antarctic Lessons Learned, AIAA Space, 2005; Achieving Satellite Instrument Calibration for Climate Change (ASIC3), Report of a Workshop Organized by NOAA, NIST, NASA, NPOESS IPO, and SDL, 2006; Earth Science and Applications from Space (ESAS): National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond, Space Studies Board, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2007; Implementation of a Defined, Repeatable Process Invited paper to the joint EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference &  15th AMS Satellite Meteorology & Oceanography Conference, 2007; Ensuring the Climate Record from the NPOESS and GOES-R, Committee on a Strategy to Mitigate the Impact of Sensor Descopes and Demanifests on the NPOESS and GOES-R Spacecraft, Space Studies Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, 2008; All Aboard the J-Train, Space News, http://spacenews.com/all-aboard-j-train/, 2011; NASA Space Technology and Roadmaps and Priorities: Restoring NASA’s Technological Edge and Paving the Way for a New Era in Space, Instruments and Computing Panel, Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, 2012; ESAS Midterm assessment, Earth Science and Applications from Space: A Midterm Assessment of NASA's Implementation of the Decadal Survey, Space Studies Board, National Research Council, The National Academies Press, 2012; Taking AWIPS to the Next Level: Expanding Beyond Today's Observations to Innovate Future Weather, Water, and Climate Applications, AMS Annual Meeting, 2013.