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Dr. Franco Einaudi Director of the Earth Sciences Directorate  In this position, Dr. Einaudi is responsible for planning, organizing, and evaluating a broad program of scientific research, both theoretical and experimental, in the study of Earth sciences. The program ranges from basic research to flight experiment development, to mission operations and data analysis. Prior to becoming Director at the end of 2000, Einaudi had been the Chief of the Laboratory for Atmospheres since 1990. Before that, he served as the Head of the Severe Storms Branch, now called the Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch. Einaudi's career has included two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Department of the University of Toronto, ten years with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences of the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, and seven and a half years at the Georgia Institute of Technology as Professor of Geophysical Sciences. A native of Turin, Italy, Einaudi received his bachelor's degree from the Politecnico of Turin, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering with specialization in plasma physics and atmospheric sciences from Cornell University. An atmospheric dynamicist, Einaudi is recognized nationally and internationally by his peers for his work on gravity waves, gravity waves/turbulence interaction, propagation of gravity waves in a moist atmosphere, and the role of gravity waves in initiating and interacting with storms. Dr. Einaudi is a member of the American Geophysical Union, a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, and a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. Dr. Einaudi has served on numerous committees and panels for the National Science Foundation, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Research Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), various universities and other national and international organizations. |