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Dr. James B. Garvin
Dr. James B. Garvin
Phone : 301-286-5154
Email : James.B.Garvin@nasa.gov
Fax : 301-286-1772
PRESENT POSITION:
Geoscientist/Topographic Remote Sensing specialist and
Project Scientist, Earth System Science Pathfinder Project
at NASA's GSFC, Geodynamics Branch, Lab for Terrestrial Physics
RESEARCH AREA EXPERIENCE:
Laser altimetry of terrestrial and planetary landscapes
Quantitative Sedimentology of Mars, Earth,and Venus
Volcanology
Volcano-Ice Interactions
Impact Cratering
CURRENT ACTIVITIES:
Chief Scientist, Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA)
Project Scientist, ESSP
Co-Investigator, MOLA Experiment, Mars Global Surveyor
Principal Investigator, Landscape Monitoring of Iceland using RADARSAT
Principal Investigator, Topo. Monitoring of Mt. Rainier
Jim Garvin joined the Geodynamics Branch in 1984, after completing
his PHD at Brown University, with specialization in the
geomorphology of lander sites on Mars and Venus and Radar
remote sensing. Within two years of his arrival at GSFC, Garvin
had established ties with laser instrument engineers and together
they developed airborne laser altimeter instruments optimized
for landscape characterization, as well as investigations
pertaining to orbital laser altimeters for the Earth, Moon, and Mars.
Garvin's main interests include time variable phenomena associated
with volcano-ice interactions, catastrophic glacier outburst
floods, the geomorphometry of impact craters, and topographic
monitoring of dynamic landscapes. He has served as Chief
Scientist for the Shuttle Laser Altimeter (SLA-01, SLA-02),
and as PI on 12 airborne laser altimeter missions, four of
which have focussed on Iceland. Garvin is a Co-I on the
Mars Orbital Laser Altimeter and one of the founding fathers
of the original MOLA. He is also serving as the Project
Scientist for NASA's new ESSP Project.
EDUCATION:
1978 - Sc. B.
Computer Science,
Brown University
1979 - M. S.
Computer Science,
Stanford University
1981 - Sc. M.
Geological Science,
Brown University
1984 - Ph. D.
Geological Science,
Brown University
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