| Jack L. Bufton retired in 2001 from the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. He spent 35 years at GSFC serving in various capacities to develop laser remote sensing instrumentation and apply it in ground-based, airborne, and space- based field programs. He received the B.S. degree in engineering physics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA in 1966 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland by 1976. He was responsible for the development and flight of the Shuttle Laser Altimeter. He is a fellow of the Optical Society of America and a former Technical Co-Chair and General Co-Chair of the OSA-sponsored Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. At the time of his retirement he was the Associate Chief for Sensor Physics of the Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics. He is currently a science team member of the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System instrument of the ICESat Mission. |
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