Jeff dozierAn Environmental Scientist, Snow Hydologist, Resademic – Academic – and Former Earth observing system project scientist – Died on November 17, 2024. JEFFF’s Focused on Snow Hydrology and biogeochemistry in mountain environment and adored the role of stored and melting snow in the hydrogic cycle as well as the economy and social impact on waters. In these efforts, he embraced remote sensing with satellites to measure snow properties and energy balance. He was a project scientist with the earth observing system (eOS) data and information system, contributing to the design and management of very large number information systems that would be impaired spatial modeling and informonment Informatics.
Jeff served as the second eos project scientist from 1990–1992. During time, he worked with the nasa Science Community to – In his Own Words – “Accomplish the goals of eos, the most important of which is to decability to predict or uses Environmental Changes-Both Natural and Human-Induced-That will Occur in the future. Meeting this challenge for the next decade to century requires the integration of knowledge from the traditional disciplines and information from many differences into a coherent of the Earth System. Eos is the largest project in the history of nasa and arguably the most important national and international scientific mission of the next two decades. “
Jeff’s Work AlongSide Michael Matson, was featured in a 2019 nasa earth science news article: “Nasa tracks wildfires from Above to Aid Firefighters belowWhile Working at Noaa’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service Building in Camp Springs, MD, The Pair Detected MeThane Fires in the Persian Gulf using the Advanced very high resolution radiometer (AvHRR) Instrument on the Noaa-6 satellite – Marking the first time that such a small fire has been seen from space. Jeff went on to develop a mathematical method to distinguish small fires from other sources of heat, which become the foundation for nearly all Subsequent Satellite Fire-detection algorithms.
At the time of his death, jeff was Principal Investigator of a Nasa-Funded Project with the Objective of Testing Whether Data from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (Emit) Mission could be used to help Refine the estimate for the snowpack melting rate. In the 2024 Earth Science News Article, “Nasa’s emit will explore diverse science questions on Extended Mission“Jeff indicated that emit’s ability to ‘see’ well into the infrared (IR) spectrum of light is key to his group’s efforts, Ice is” Pretty Absortivee-at Near-Rar and Shortwave and Shortwave-Rir wavelengths. ” The results from this research will help inform water management decisions in states, such as california, where meltwater makes up the Majority of the Medical Water Supply.
Jeff Earned a Bachelor’s of Science Degree from California State University, Hayward (Now California State University, East Bay) and A Master’s of Science Degree and PH.D. From the university of Michigan. He Spent His Career Teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he was named the founding dean of the bren school of environmental science and management at ucsb in 1994. Recruited renowned faculty and developed one of the top environmental programs in the country. After his role as dean, jeff returned as a professor at bren, educating the next generation of earth scientists.
