Alan B. Tanner

Alan Tanner received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1989. His graduate school and professional work have focused on the design and applications of microwave and millimeter-wave radiometers and radars for remote sensing of the Earth. Since 1989, he has been with Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA. He has been the lead Engineer for the Geostationary Synthetic Thinned Array Radiometer (GeoSTAR) prototypes, the Ultra-Stable Radiometer testbed (which formed the basis of the Aquarius and Juno radiometer designs), the Advanced Water Vapor Radiometers (AWVR) for the Cassini Gravitational Wave Experiment, the Airborne Cloud Radar (a 94-GHz scatterometer which preceded the CloudSat mission), and the Airborne Rain Mapping Radar (for Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission). He developed the Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer (ESTAR) for soil moisture measurements, and the Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) for hurricane wind-speed detection from NOAA reconnaissance aircraft.