Dennis C. Reuter

Dennis Reuter is a Senior Fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and is the L‘Ralph Principal Investigator (PI). He received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981. He is also the PI or Instrument Scientist for the LEISA Atmospheric Corrector (LAC) on EO-1, the Ralph instrument on New Horizons, the Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) on Landsat-8 and TIRS-2 on Landsat 9, and the OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission He is an author of more than 100 journal papers on topics including laboratory spectroscopy, spectral interpretation, remote sensing applications in planetary and Earth science and instrument design and applications.