Antonia Gambacorta is a Research Physical Scientist in the Climate and Radiation Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She holds a Ph.D. (2008) and a M.S. (2005) in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and a Laurea Degree (2001, Summa cum Laude) in Physics from the Universita' degli Studi A. Moro, Bari, Italy. She is the recipient of the 2023 Robert H. Goddard Honor Award for Exceptional Achievement for Science and the 2023 NASA Goddard Technology Leadership Award.
Antonia Gambacorta
(Rsch AST, Atmospheric Measurements)
| Email: | antonia.gambacorta@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.614.6202 |
| Org Code: | 613 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 613 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
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Brief Bio
Research Interests
Hyperspectral Microwave and Infrared remote sensing techniques and data fusion inverse methods for the retrieval of atmospheric temperature and constituents
Earth Science: Remote SensingEarth's Planetary Boundary Layer remote sensing techniques and science applications
Current Projects
The Advanced Ultra-high Resolution Optical RAdiometer (AURORA) Pathfinder
Remote Sensing
Principal Investigator - A 2024 NASA ESTO Direct Funding project to deliver the very first space-borne hyperspectral microwave sensor pathfinder of a future NASA Earth's PBL Mission.
Developing the NOAA Next Generation Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor (HyMS): Instrument Concept and Demonstration of Benefits for the NOAA Mission - Principal Investigator
Remote Sensing
Principal Investigator - A 2022 NOAA Broad Agency Announcement funded project to deploy a scientific airborne field campaign to demonstrate GSFC owned Hyperspectral Microwave Sensor technology for numerical weather prediction applications.
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in Space: The Hyperspectral Microwave Instrument (HyMPI) - Principal Investigator
Remote Sensing
Principal Investigator - A 2021 Instrument Incubator Proposal (IIP) awarded project to build the first of its kind hyperspectral microwave instrument for advanced atmospheric thermodynamic sounding from space.
A Combined Passive-Active, Multi-Sensor Approach to Earth’s Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Sounding - Principal Investigator
Remote Sensing
Principal Investigator - A 2021 NASA ROSES funded research to combine Program of Record data from passive and active sensors to improve thermodynamic sounding skill of the Earth's Planetary Boundary Layer for climate and weather applications.
Hyperspectral Capability for the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer (CoSMIR): Enhancing Capability for Future PBL Suborbital Campaigns and Enabling PBL Science from Space
Remote Sensing
Science Lead - A 2021 NASA ESTO Decadal Survey funded project to develop and demonstrate a hyperspectral capability for the Conical Scanning Millimeter-wave Imaging Radiometer: CoSMIR-H.
Positions/Employment
Research Physical Scientist
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
July 2020 - Present
Research Associate
UMBC/JCET - Greenbelt, MD
February 2020 - July 2020
Science Lead, NOAA SNPP and JPSS NOAA Unique Combined Atmospheric Processing System
NOAA/NESDIS/STAR - College Park, MD
October 2006 - August 2019
Research Assistant
University of Maryland Baltimore County - Baltimore, MD
August 2002 - September 2006
Research Associate
University of Naples - Naples, Italy
January 2002 - July 2002
Teaching Experience
2001- University of Maryland Baltimore County, Mechanical Physics
Education
2008 - Ph.D. Atmospheric Physics (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA)
2005 - M.S. Atmospheric Physics (University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA)
2001 - Laurea Degree Physics (Universita' Degli Studi A. Moro, Bari, Italy)
Professional Societies
American Geophysical Union
Member
2008 - Present
American Meteorological Society
Member, Editorial Reviewer
2014 - Present
Professional Service
Decadal Survey Incubation Planetary Boundary Layer Science Team
Meteosat Third Generation InfraRed Sounder Mission Advisory Group - Science Mission Adviser
Atmospheric Composition from Satellite Working Group - Co-chair
IASI Sounder Science Working Group - Scientific Member
The Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Water Vapor Working Group (G-VAP) - Scientific Member
Awards
11/17/2023: 2023 NASA Goddard Technology Leadership Award
"For her expansive effort leading hyperspectral microwave radiometer development and associated Planetary Boundary Layer incubation (PBL) at Goddard."
08/29/2023: 2023 NASA Robert H. Goddard Honor Award for Exceptional Achievement for Science.
"For Exceptional Advances in the Science and Application of Hyperspectral Microwave Remote Sensing"
08/02/2018: Group Achievement Award by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
“To the JPSS Program Team for exceptional leadership, persistence, hard work and unique experience leading up to the successful launch of the JPSS-1 mission.
06/20/2017: Outstanding Leadership Award by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR
"To Antonia Gambacorta, in recognition of the leadership work performed towards the successful delivery of the NUCAPS Phase 4 Operational System and completion of the NUCAPS Phase 4 Algorithm Readiness Review".
12/03/2013: Certificate of Recognition by the Joint Polar Satellite Program (JPSS)
“To Antonia Gambacorta, in recognition of your contributions to the successful completion of the Joint Polar satellite System program’s Key Decision Point-I and key Decision Point-C milestones”.
05/11/2010: Group achievement award as a member of the NOAA AIRS Team by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
“For outstanding contributions in improving weather forecasting using data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and production of its key climate data product”.
10/30/2009: Certificate of appreciation by The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Center for Satellite Application and Research (STAR), The Office of Satellite Meteorology and Climatology Division (SMCD)
“To Antonia Gambacorta, in recognition of exemplary performance and achievement in support of implementing processing systems that created METOP products and make them available for assimilation into US forecast systems in record time”.
12/14/2008: Outstanding Student Paper Award by the American Geophysical Union
“To Antonia Gambacorta, Best student paper in the Atmospheric Science Session of the 2008 AGU Fall Meeting, titled: “An assessment of the tropical water vapor-temperature covariance using AIRS”, San Francisco, 2008.
05/04/2007: Certificate of appreciation by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
“In grateful recognition of your contributions to the success of the AIRS project Celebrating its 5 Year Anniversary in Space”.