Brief Bio

James J. Marshall is a Senior Staff Scientist with INNOVIM whose current primary task involves documenting the MODIS software algorithms that produce land data products.  Previously, he served as the Support Team Lead for the NASA Earth Science Data Systems Software Reuse Working Group where he organized and led many of the working group's activities for about 5.5 years.

Positions/Employment

Education

Ph.D., Astronomy, 2004
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Dissertation: A Large Survey for Very Low Surface Brightness Galaxies

M.S., Astronomy, 1999
University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD
Scholarly paper topic: Studying the dynamical evolution of young stellar clusters through N-body simulations

B.S., Astronomy & Astrophysics, 1996
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
Performed observations of binary star systems

Professional Societies

Professional Service

2012 --- Technical Program Committee Member of the 2012 IEEE IRI Conference

2010-2011 --- Track Co-Chair of the Industry/Government/Application Track of the 2011 IEEE IRI Conference

2010 --- Session Chair of two sessions at the 2010 IEEE Information Reuse and Integration (IRI) Conference

Awards

2010 --- NASA ESDS Software Reuse WG Peer-Recognition Software Reuse Award, Peer Education Category

2008 --- Raritan High School Academic Hall of Fame

1996 --- Edward F. Jenkins O.S.A. Award for Academic Excellence in Astronomy and Astrophysics

1996 --- Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society

1996 --- Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

1995 --- Sigma Pi Sigma Honor Society

Publications

MARSHALL, J. J., R. DOWNS, and S. SAMADI. 2010. Relevance of Software Reuse in Building Advanced Data Processing Systems. Earth Science Informatics. 3 (1): 95-100. [ 10.1007/s12145-010-0054-3]

DOWNS, R., and J. J. MARSHALL. 2010. A Proposal on Using Reuse Readiness Levels to Measure Software Reusability. Data Science Journal. 9 73-92. [ 10.2481/dsj.009-007]

MATTMANN, C., R. DOWNS, J. J. MARSHALL, N. MOST, and S. SAMADI. 2010. Reuse of software assets for the NASA Earth science decadal survey missions. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS). 1687-1690. [ 10.1109/IGARSS.2010.5653018]

MARSHALL J. J., R. R. DOWNS, and S. SAMADI. 2010. Building the Next Generation of Aerospace Data Processing Systems by Reusing Existing Software Components, Aerospace Technologies Advancements. IN-TECH. 25-36.

MARSHALL J. J., and R. R. DOWNS. 2008. Reuse Readiness Levels as a Measure of Software Reusability, IGARSS 2008 IEEE International. 3 III-1414??III-1417,. [10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4779626]

MARSHALL J. J., R. R. DOWNS, S. SAMADI, N. S. GERARD, and R. E. WOLFE. 2008. Software Reuse to Support Earth Science. Journal of Frontiers of Computer Science and Technology. 2 (3): 296-310. [10.3778/j.issn.1673-9418.2008.03.006]

GERARD R. S., R. R. DOWNS, J. J. MARSHALL, and R. E. WOLFE. 2007. The Software Reuse Working Group: A Case Study in Fostering Reuse. Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2007 IEEE International Conference on. 24-29. [10.1109/IRI.2007.4296592]

SAMADI S., R. S. GERARD, M. E. HUNTER, J. J. MARSHALL, and R. J. SCHWEISS. 2007. Reusing Software to Build Data Processing Systems: NPP Science Data Segment Case Study. Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEE. 40190. [10.1109/AERO.2007.352814]

MARSHALL J. J., S. W. OLDING, R. E. WOLFE, and V. E. DELNORE. 2006. Software Reuse Within the Earth Science Community. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006 IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Conference on. 2880-2883. [10.1109/IGARSS.2006.740]

MARSHALL J. J., R. S. GERARD, S. SAMADI, and R. E. WOLFE. 2006. A Study of Earth Science Software Reuse Enablement Systems. Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2006 IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Conference on. 2832-2835. [10.1109/IGARSS.2006.728]