Dr. Pickering is an atmospheric scientist employed by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and works in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics Laboratory of the Earth Sciences Division, where he is involved in many atmospheric chemistry modeling and analysis activities. Dr. Pickering conducts air quality applications using data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) onboard NASA’s Aura satellite, and directs regional air quality modeling simulations using CMAQ and WRF-Chem. He served as Co-Chair of the Air Quality Working Group for the Aura Science Team and has directed projects sponsored by NASA’s Applied Sciences Air Quality Program. Dr. Pickering is also Project Scientist for the NASA Earth Venture - 1 DISCOVER-AQ (Deriving Information on Surface Conditions from Column and Vertically-Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality) project under which major field experiments have been conducted in the Baltimore-Washington area, the San Joaquin Valley, Houston, and the Front Range region of Colordo from 2011 to 2014. He leads other projects aimed at evaluating convective transport in NASA’s global chemical transport model (GMI) and chemistry and climate model (GEOS-5 CCM). Dr. Pickering is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Department (AOSC) at the University of Maryland where he advises graduate student research and collaborates with other faculty members.