King Receives Nordberg Award for Outstanding Leadership of NASA'S Earth Observing System

Dr. Michael King, senior project scientist for NASA's Earth Observing System (EOS) is the 2001 recipient of the William Nordberg Memorial Award for Earth Sciences. The award was presented November 16 at Goddard. King is the eighth recipient since the Goddard honor was first introduced in 1994.

Nordberg was a past director of Space Applications at Goddard and a pioneer in using remote sensing to investigate the Earth and its environment. The award named in his honor is given annually a Goddard employee "who best exhibits qualities of broad scientific perspective, enthusiastic programmatic and technical leadership on the national and international levels, wide recognition by peers and substantial research accomplishments in understanding Earth science processes."

King has been the senior project scientist for the EOS since 1992. In this position, he has skillfully orchestrated the day-to-day interfacing of the Earth Science community with NASA's Earth Science Enterprise to ensure that both scientific and programmatic requirements for the program are met. He is honored for his leadership and his scientific contribution in the field of radiative transfer and its application to ground-based, airborne and satellite remote sensing techniques of clouds and aerosols.