TOM INGERSOLL
MethaneSAT Project Co-lead
DR. STEVEN HAMBURG
MethaneSAT LLC Executive Manager MethaneSAT Project Co-lead Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President, Environmental Defense Fund
ED IRVIN
MethaneSAT Project Director
BOBBY FERRARO
Mission Operations Director
DR. JOSHUA BENMERGUI
Senior Science Engineer
JON COIFMAN
Senior Communications Director
PATRICIA DAVIS
Consultant
LISA FULLERTON
Senior Manager
DR. RITESH GAUTAM
Lead Senior Scientist
ANTHONY HIMMELBERGER
Geospatial Analyst
MADS O’BRIEN
Senior Geospatial Analyst
DR. MARK OMARA
Scientist, Global Methane
PETER VEDDER
Senior Director, Mission Systems
KATHLEEN CASEY
Data Processing Operations Manager
DATA PLATFORM
To process and manage the enormous volume and sophisticated nature of data from the satellite, MethaneSAT is building a flexible, scalable data platform to serve as the heart of the mission.
TOM MELENDEZ
Senior Engineering Director, Data Products
SASHA AYVAZOV
Back End Engineer
EMMA BISHOP
Front End Engineer
DAVID CALHOUN
Technical Lead, Front End Architecture
CARLOS CERVANTES
Senior Back End Engineer
CHRIS HAIRFIELD
Back End Software Engineer
SUSAN KASPER
Senior Product Manager
NICHOLAS LOFASO
Technical Lead, Processing Platform
CORY MORTIMER MARTIN
Front-end Software Engineer
KAT SUNDQUIST
Project Coordinator/Software Apprentice
JUSTIN TYBERG
Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer
IVANA STEVENS
Senior Front End Software Engineer
MARCUS RUSSI
Back End Software Engineer
SCIENTIFIC PARTNERS
MethaneSAT has engaged with Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to design the scientific and technical approach, and to develop the data acquisition and analysis capability.
DR. STEVEN C. WOFSY
Professor of Atmospheric and Environmental Chemistry, Harvard University
DR. KELLY CHANCE
Senior Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
JU CHULAKADABBA
Graduate Student, Harvard University
DR. JOHN E. DAVIS
Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
DR. JONATHAN E. FRANKLIN
Research Associate, Harvard University
DR. XIONG LIU
Research Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
DR. BINGKUN LUO
Physicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics
DR. CHRIS CHAN MILLER
Research Associate, Harvard University
DR. SÉBASTIEN ROCHE
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
DR. JENNA E. SAMRA
Instrument Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
DR. MARYANN SARGENT
Research Scientist, Harvard University
DR. AMIR H. SOURI
Research Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
DR. KANG SUN
Assistant Professor of Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo
DR. JONAS S. WILZEWSKI
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
ADVOCACY FOR THE METHANESAT PROJECT
Environmental Defense Fund will use data shared by MethaneSAT LLC to assist in advocacy around EDF’s goal to protect the climate by reducing global methane emissions.
FRED KRUPP
President, Environmental Defense Fund
MARK BROWNSTEIN
Senior Vice President of Energy, Environmental Defense Fund
EXPERT ADVISOR
To support the technical and scientific components of the project, we have enlisted some of the space industry’s most seasoned experts to serve on two advisory groups. They are helping to ensure the mission meets the highest scientific and technical standards.
METHANESAT TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP
The Technical Advisory Group is focused on the design and fabrication of the overall MethaneSAT observatory.
METHANESAT SCIENCE ADVISORY GROUP
The Science Advisory Group provides guidance on MethaneSAT’s advanced methane measurement capabilities and data analysis.
DR. CHRISTIAN FRANKENBERG