Brief Bio
Dr. Brucker joined the NASA GSFC as a Research Associate in early 2010. He obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2006 and his Ph.D in October 2009 from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), Grenoble University/CNRS, France. He conducted researches on the passive microwave emission modeling of snowpacks over Antarctica and North America. During the winter of 2008, Dr. Brucker participated in the International Polar Year with a deployment to North Quebec. Currently, he focuses his activities on snow over sea ice in order to enhance snow depth retrievals using a combination of passive and active space-borne measurements, and models.
Research Interests
Air & space remote sensing of snow-covered Earth's polar and sub-polar regions
Positions/Employment
Education
2006 – 2009 Doctoral degree University of Grenoble
Earth and Universe Sciences Grenoble, France
2004 – 2006 Master of Science University Blaise Pascal
Physics of the Atmosphere and Climate Clermont-Ferrand, France
2001 – 2004 Bachelor of Science University of Savoie
Physics and Chemistry Le Bourget du Lac, France
2001 High school diploma Lycée du Mt Blanc
Engineering Sciences Passy, France
Summer school
Aug. 2008 ESA's summer school European Space Agency
`Earth System Monitoring & Modeling' Frascati, Italy
Sep. 2007 Karthaus' school Karthaus, Italy
`Ice sheets and glaciers in the climate system'
Teaching Experience
at University of Grenoble
2008 75h Freshman course Physics
2007 4h Junior course Atmosphere-Climate-Ocean
2007 24h Junior course Computer Sciences
2007 40h Freshman course Organic chemistry
2006 12h Senior course Remote sensing
Other Professional Information
Feb. – Apr. 2008 Collaborations at Centre d'Applications et University of Sherbrooke
Sep. – Nov. 2007 de Recherches en Télédétection Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
Special Experience
Feb. 2008 International Polar Year field campaign Schefferville, QC, Canada
`Variability and change in the Canadian cryosphere:
a contribution to state and fate of the Cryosphere'
Talks, Presentations and Posters
Precipitation variability studies using X and K band radars.
2007Van Baelen, J., Pointin, Y., Brucker, L., Peters, G.
EGU, Wien, Austria, 2007.
Latitudinal variations of snow properties using airborne passive microwave and in-situ infrared reflectance data over Eastern Canada.
2008Langlois, A., Brucker, L., Royer, A., Fily, M., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Derksen, C., Goïta, K., Walker, A., Cliche, P.
EGU, Wien, Austria, 2008.
Seasonal retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent (SWE) and temperature using in-situ passive microwave radiometry in southern Québec.
2008Langlois, A., Brucker, L., Royer, A. , Harvey-Collard, P., Fily, M., Picard, G., Asmus, K., Walker, A., Goïta, K. and Willemet, J.M.
IGARSS, Boston, MA, USA, 2008.
Modeling timeseries of microwave brightness temperature at Dome-C, Antarctica, using new snow structure measurements.
2008Brucker, L., Brunjail, H., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Barnola, J-M., Duval, P. and Fily, M.
IGARSS, Boston, MA, USA, 2008.
Latitudinal variations of snow properties using passive microwave and in-situ infrared reflectance data over North Eastern Canada.
2008Royer, A., Langlois, A., Goïta, K., Kohn, J., Cliche, P., Fily, M., Picard, G., Brucker, L., Willemet, J.M., Walker, A., Derksen, C. and Asmus, K.
IPY Project Meeting “Variability and Change in the Canadian Cryosphere”, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2008.
Latitudinal variations of snow properties using passive microwave brightness temperature and in-situ measurements over Eastern Canada.
2008Langlois, A., Brucker, L., Royer, A., Fily, M., Picard, G., Arnaud, L., Derksen, C., Goïta, G., Walker, A., Cliche, P. and Harvey-Collard, P.
Arctic Change, Quebec, Canada, 2008.
Relationship between passive microwave observations and snow properties in Antarctica over a large range of frequencies (6 GHz – 150 GHz).
2009Picard, G., Brucker, L., Fily, M., Arnaud, L., Barnola, J-M., Magand, O. and Genthon, C.
Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties, Toulouse, France, 2009.
Modeling microwave emissivity at 19 GHz and 37 GHz in Antarctica: influence on the snow grain size.
2009Brucker, L., Picard, G. and Fily, M.
Workshop on Remote Sensing and Modeling of Surface Properties, Toulouse, France, 2009.
Microwave spectral signature and snow grain size profile in Antarctica..
2010Picard, G., Brucker, L., Champollion, N., Arnaud, L., Lefebvre, E. and Fily, M.
MicroRAD, Washington DC, USA, 2010
Simulation of time evolution of snow microwave brigthness temperatures using coupled snow evolution and emission models.
2010Brucker, L., Royer, A., Picard, G., Langlois, A., and Fily, M.
MicroRAD, Washington DC, USA, 2010.
Measurements of snow radiometric and microstructure properties over a transect of plot-scale field observations: Application to snow thermodynamic and passive microwave emission models.
2010Langlois, A., Dupont, F., Goita, K., Roy, A., Cliche, P., Fily, M., Picard, G., Brucker, L., Montpetit, B., Derksen, C.
AGU, San Francisco, CA, 2010.
Brief Bio
Dr. Brucker joined the NASA GSFC as a Research Associate in early 2010. He obtained a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Clermont-Ferrand, France in 2006 and his Ph.D in October 2009 from the Laboratoire de Glaciologie et Geophysique de l'Environnement (LGGE), Grenoble University/CNRS, France. He conducted researches on the passive microwave emission modeling of snowpacks over Antarctica and North America. During the winter of 2008, Dr. Brucker participated in the International Polar Year with a deployment to North Quebec. Currently, he focuses his activities on snow over sea ice in order to enhance snow depth retrievals using a combination of passive and active space-borne measurements, and models.
