Brief Bio
Peter Hildebrand is an atmospheric scientist and Director of the Earth Sciences Division at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the largest earth sciences research laboratories in the world. Approximately eleven hundred civil servants, university, and contract staff perform a wide variety of earth science research tasks including the design and operation of space instruments and missions, field research programs, and computer modeling of earth system climate and processes. The Earth Sciences division's diverse program of space-based, airborne and ground based measurements provides important assessments of our changing planet, including the decreasing global ice sheets, changes in land use and ecosystems, the effects of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gasses, and other processes that affect Earth's climate. Data from these space missions are ingested into computer models that evaluate and forecast Earth's global climate changes and the effects that humans are having on climate, both globally and regionally. The Earth Sciences Division supports a wide variety of other government agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOD, USAID and others with these capabilities plus land surface monitoring and modeling, data assimilation capabilities, hydrologic modeling, stratospheric ozone monitoring. Our scientists provide important human impact research including disease and famine forecasting, flood forecast and monitoring, wildfire detection, regional climate change forecasting, and more.
Prior to this, Hildebrand was Chief of Goddard's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, then the Deputy Director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate. Hildebrand's career has included service in the US Navy Weather Service, weather research at the University of Illinois and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado. While at NCAR, Hildebrand held positions as Deputy Manager of the Research Aviation Facility, then as Manager of the Remote Sensing Facility. In that position he was the PI for construction of NCAR's Eldora Airborne Weather Radar, and led his staff to develop the prototype for the nation's NEXRAD radars, as well as airborne and ground based lidar remote sensing capabilities. Hildebrand is the recipient of numerous awards including at NCAR for the development of the Eldora Airborne Weather Radar, and at NASA for earth science management leadership. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Senior Member of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers. Hildebrand received his education at the University of Chicago and has published widely. He is a frequent speaker on climate change at institutions in the Washington DC area and elsewhere.
Brief Bio
Peter Hildebrand is an atmospheric scientist and Director of the Earth Sciences Division at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the largest earth sciences research laboratories in the world. Approximately eleven hundred civil servants, university, and contract staff perform a wide variety of earth science research tasks including the design and operation of space instruments and missions, field research programs, and computer modeling of earth system climate and processes. The Earth Sciences division's diverse program of space-based, airborne and ground based measurements provides important assessments of our changing planet, including the decreasing global ice sheets, changes in land use and ecosystems, the effects of atmospheric aerosols and greenhouse gasses, and other processes that affect Earth's climate. Data from these space missions are ingested into computer models that evaluate and forecast Earth's global climate changes and the effects that humans are having on climate, both globally and regionally. The Earth Sciences Division supports a wide variety of other government agencies, including USGS, NOAA, DOD, USAID and others with these capabilities plus land surface monitoring and modeling, data assimilation capabilities, hydrologic modeling, stratospheric ozone monitoring. Our scientists provide important human impact research including disease and famine forecasting, flood forecast and monitoring, wildfire detection, regional climate change forecasting, and more.
Prior to this, Hildebrand was Chief of Goddard's Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, then the Deputy Director of Goddard's Sciences and Exploration Directorate. Hildebrand's career has included service in the US Navy Weather Service, weather research at the University of Illinois and at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder Colorado. While at NCAR, Hildebrand held positions as Deputy Manager of the Research Aviation Facility, then as Manager of the Remote Sensing Facility. In that position he was the PI for construction of NCAR's Eldora Airborne Weather Radar, and led his staff to develop the prototype for the nation's NEXRAD radars, as well as airborne and ground based lidar remote sensing capabilities. Hildebrand is the recipient of numerous awards including at NCAR for the development of the Eldora Airborne Weather Radar, and at NASA for earth science management leadership. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society and a Senior Member of the Institute for Electronic and Electrical Engineers. Hildebrand received his education at the University of Chicago and has published widely. He is a frequent speaker on climate change at institutions in the Washington DC area and elsewhere.
