CURRICULUM VITAE

 

RAYMOND MEYER HOFF

 

Professor

Physics Department

and

Director

Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology

and

Director

Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Suite 320, 5523 Research Park Drive, Baltimore MD 21228

Phone: 410-455-1610  Fax: 410-455-1291 email: hoff@umbc.edu

 

 
 
 

 


Educational Background

 

A.B. Physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1970

Ph. D. Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. 1975

 

Citizenship:

U.S. and Canadian (dual citizen)

 

Professional Experience:

            2005-present   Director of the Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center

            1999-present   Professor of Physics and Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology, University of Maryland Baltimore County     

            2004-2004       Acting Chairman, Department of Physics, University of Maryland Baltimore County

1977-1999       Senior Research Scientist, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment Canada, Egbert, Ontario, Canada

            1975-1977       Post-doctoral Fellow, Atmospheric Environment Service, Environment                                                        Canada, Downsview, Ontario, Canada

            1974-1975       Instructor, Capilano College, North Vancouver, British Columbia

 

Awards:

California State Scholarship                                        1966‑69

National Research Council Scholarship                      1972‑75

National Research Council Post‑Doctoral      

Fellowship                                                      1975‑77

Environment Canada Citation

 of Appreciation                                              1991

Visiting Fellow

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory                   1990

NOAA Wave Propagation Laboratory            1990

NASA Langley Research Center                    1991

NASA Certificate of Appreciation                              1995

AES/EPRI/Florida Electric Power/OMEE/USEPA

            Citation of Appreciation                                  1995

NASA Group Achievement Award                            1995

 

Membership in Professional Societies

Optical Society of America 1972‑1980, 1993-1994

Canadian Association of Physicists 1972 ‑ present

   Chairman,Div. of Industrial and Applied Physics 1981‑82

   Member, Committee on Changes to the Ontario Professional

Engineers Act 1982‑84

American Geophysical Union, 1987‑present

American Meteorological Society 1990‑present

Member, Committee on Laser Atmospheric Studies (CLAS) 1988‑90, 96-

            Chairman, CLAS, 1990‑1992

            International Association of Great Lakes Research 1991-1998

Technical Advisory Council, 1993-1998

            WMO Commission on Atmospheric Sciences Expert Panel on Long Range Transport of Air Pollutants 1998-1999

            WMO Science Advisory Group on Aerosols (reports to CAS/WMO) 2004-present

            DOE ACRF Science Advisory Panel 2004-2006

National Academy of Sciences Panel on Mesoscale Meteorological Observations for Multiple National Needs  2007-present

 

Referee:

Referee for J. Appl. Meteorology, J. Great Lakes Research, Atmospheric Environment, Applied Optics, Optics Letters,  J. Geophysical Research, Geophysical Research Letters, Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, J. Air Waste Management Association, Chemosphere, Atmosphere‑Ocean, Science of the Total Environment, Tellus, Environmental Science and Technology, Nature, Canadian Journal of Physics and numerous AES internal reviews.   Technical reviews for American Meteorological Society and Optical Society of America Symposia.  Peer reviewer of NASA programs.

 

BIOGRAPHY:

 

Dr. R. M. Hoff is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.  He is also Director of the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology.  Dr. Hoff has 31 years of experience in atmospheric research. His research interests are in the optical properties of aerosols and gases in the atmosphere.

Dr. Hoff has been central in formulating major research programs on Differential Absorption, airborne and spaceborne lidar, volcanic emissions, atmospheric transport of toxic chemicals to the Great Lakes, atmospheric visibility, Arctic Haze, and dispersion of pollutants. He has led or participated in over 20 major field experiments.  He is the author of 83 journal articles and book chapters, 94 other refereed works and numerous public presentations of his work.  

Dr. Hoff obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics at the University of California Berkeley in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Physics from Simon Fraser University in 1975. He has conducted research at UMBC, Environment Canada, NASA Langley Research Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Environmental Research Laboratories

Dr. Hoff was a member of the Science Advisory Group for the NASA Laser In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE), a space shuttle experiment. He was a member of a proponent team for a spaceborne Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) involving NASA, the Canadian Space Agency and the Meteorological Service of Canada. He is also a science team member on the ESSP-2 spaceborne lidar, named CALIPSO.  He was a member of the International Radiation Commission International Coordination Group on Laser Atmospheric Studies (ICLAS), the American Meteorological Society Committee for Laser Atmospheric Studies (CLAS) and the Stratospheric and Upper Tropospheric Aerosol focus of the International Global Aerosol Program (SUTA/IGAP/IGAC).  He was Rapporteur for Long Range Transport on the WMO Executive Committee Panel of Experts/Commission of the Atmospheric Science Working Group on Environmental Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry.  He is a member of the Science Advisory Group on Aerosols to the Commission of the Atmospheric Sciences of the World Meteorological Organization.   He has had committee and peer review roles at NASA, EPA, Environment Canada, and the European Economic Community.  He has held memberships in six scientific societies and served as Chairman of committees for those societies.

Grant Record

 

Environmental Protection Agency ÒPeer Review on Lake Michigan Mass Balance ProjectÓ, 95-2252, $2700, 1999-2000. Closed.

 

NASA Grant (NCC5-701) ÒValidation Of Micropulse Lidar Aerosol Extinction Measurements Using Raman LidarÓ $38,229, 2003-2004. Closed.

 

NASA Langley Research Center ÒPICASSO-CENA Science Team Support for Aerosol StudiesÓ, NAS1-99107, $125,001, 2007-2008  ($474,915 1999-2008)

 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center "JCET Cooperative Agreement", NCC5-339, $2.3 M 2004-2005 ($19.7M 1995-2005) (The PI takes no research support from this agreement.) Closed.

 

NASA Grant (NNG04GC06A) ÒRaman Lidar Studies of Water Vapor, Cirrus Cloud Optical Depth, Particle Size and Ice Water ContentÓ, $22,152 2005 ($44,304 2004-2005).  Closed.

 

NASA Grant (NAG5-11373-3) ÒA New ÒCloud ModeÓ for the AeronetÓ, $272,844 (3 years).  Original PI Alexander Marshak).  Closed.

 

Battelle Contract187747, "Spatial Information Using Satellite Technology", $15,921, 2004.

 

NSF Grant (ATM-0129605) ÒRaman Lidar in Mesoscale StudiesÓ, B. Demoz (original PI) $270,076, 2001-2006. Closed 3/31/06.

 

NASA Grant NAS5-11269, ÒMicrophysical Properties of Crystalline PSC Particles Acquired During SOLVE 99 MissionÓ, J. Reichardt (original PI), $134,793 2001-2006.

 

City University of New York Research Foundation, subcontract on NOAA Cooperative Center for Remote Sensing,  $118,000 2005-6 (2001-2005; $607k), R. Khanbilvardi , City University of New York, PI), October 2001-September 2006.

 

Maryland Department of Environment, "Lidar support to RAMMPP", subaward to "Air Pollution in Maryland" (UMCP Grant), $16,000 2006, ($32,000 2005-2006)

 

NASA NCC5-494, "GEST Cooperative Agreement", $54,242,796 2000-2006, ($140,000,000 2000-2010) (PI takes no research funds from this cooperative agreement).

 

NASA NNG05GQ79A "A Proposal for New Exploration", $3,115,631 2005-2006  ($13,181,719 2005-2009).  This is the JCET Cooperative Agreement for which the PI takes no research funds.

 

NASA NNH04ZYS004N, "Simultaneous Raman Lidar Measurements in the MARVA Region", $90,000 2006-2007, ($190,000, 2005-2007)

 

 

NOAA DG133E0SSE6814-1, " Support NOAA NESDIS in the Area of Satellite Retrievals", $120,000, 2005-2006

 

NASA Cooperative Agreement (NN-H-04-Z-YO-010-C) "Three Dimensional Air Quality System (3D-AQS)", $477,128) 2006-7 ($1,113,740 2006-2008)

 

NASA NNH05ZDA001N-CCST (ROSES-5 Component A.10), "CALIPSO Impacts on the Determination of Transport of Lower Tropospheric Aerosols", $241,948 2006-2007 ($740,465 2006-2009), submitted

 

City University of New York Research Foundation, subcontract on NOAA Cooperative Center for Remote Sensing,  $118,000 2006-7 (2006-2010; $607k), R. Khanbilvardi , City University of New York, PI).

 

NASA NESS07, ÒComparison of PBL Extinction Measurements in Maryland between CALIPSO and the UMBC ELF  Lidar, $23,993 (2007-2008), pending.

 

 

Theses Supervised

 

Aaron Vandemeer, M.S. Thesis, A Comparison of the NARCM Regional Aerosol Climate Model with LITE and Ground Based Optical Observations, York University, August 1999.

 

A. Daniel Wooten, M.S. Thesis, An Improved Raman Lidar System Utilizing a Large Core Multimode-Mode Fiber Optic, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, January 2000.

 

Joseph Comer, M.S. Thesis, UMBC Elastic Backscatter Lidar Facility (ELF): Subvisible Cirrus Cloud and Aerosol measurements during ABOVE 2002, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, May 2003.

 

Paul Poli, Ph.D. Thesis, Assimilation of Global Positioning System radio occultation measurements into numerical weather forecast systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, March 2004.

 

Jill Engel-Cox, Ph.D. Thesis, Bridging the Science-Policy Divide: Use of Satellites for Air Quality Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, October 2004.

 

Students Mentored

A. Dan Wooten, M.S. Physics, 2000

J. Comer, M.S. Physics 2003

Tom Pugh, B.S., Physics, summer intern, 2000

Jill Engel-Cox, Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science Program, Ph.D. 2004

Paul Poli, Physics, Ph.D. degree 2004

Nikisa Jordan, Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science Program, M.S. 2006

Nikisa Jordan, Marine Estuarine and Environmental Science Program, Ph.D. expected 2008

Ray Rogers, M.S. Physics, 2004, expected Ph.D. 2006

Felicita Russo, MS, 2003, expected Ph.D. 2007

Kamonayi Mubenga, MEES, expected M.S.2006

Glynn Hulley, Physics, expected Ph.D. 2007

Amy Erwin, MEES, withdrew from program.

 

Student Committees Served:

Diane Poster, Ph.D. MEES UMCES, reader, 1993.

John Offenberg, Ph.D. MEES UMCES, reader, 1998.

David N. Whiteman, Ph.D. Applied Physics, 2000

Holly Bamford, Ph.D. MEES UMCES, reader, 2002

Randy Larsen, Ph.D. MEES UMCES, reader, 2002.

Kurt Lightner, Ph.D. Applied Physics, reader, 2004

Dylan Powell, Ph.D. Atmospheric Physics,  reader, 2005

Bernard Crimmins, Ph.D. MEES UMCES, reader, 2006

Hai Zhang, Ph.D. Atmospheric Physics, reader, 2006

Michelle McCourt-Comer, Ph.D., Atmospheric Physics, reader, 2006.

Opponent:

Prof. Detlef Mueller, Institut fŸr Meteorologie, UniversitŠt Leipzig, 2006

 

Courses Taught

 

Physics 121 Recitation Section, UMBC, Spring 2001, Fall 2002, Spring 2003

 

Physics 235:  Physics and Chemistry of the Atmosphere, UMBC, Fall 2001

 

Physics 621:  Atmospheric Physics I, UMBC, Fall 2003.

 

Physics 722, Atmospheric Remote Sensing, UMBC, Spring 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2005

 

Physics 698:  Physics Seminar, Fall 2004, Spring 2005

 

Physics 799:  MasterÕs Thesis Research

 

Physics 899:  Ph.D. Thesis Research

 

MEES 899:  Ph.D. Thesis Research

 

 

Publication Record

 

Refereed Publications, Books, Chapters

 

1)             Carn, S. A.,  N. A. Krotkov, K. Yang, A. J. Krueger, R. M. Hoff, P. F. Levelt, 2006. Stratospheric SO2 injection triggered by lava dome collapse at Soufriere Hills Volcano, Montserrat, GRL, (submitted).

 

2)             McMillan, W. W., J. X. Warner, M. McCourt Comer, E. Maddy, A. Chu, L. Sparling,  E. Eloranta, R. Hoff, G. Sachse, C. Barnet, I. Razenkov, W. Wolf. , 2006, AIRS views of transport from 12-22 July 2004 Alaskan/Canadian fires: Correlation of AIRS CO and MODIS AOD with forward trajectories and comparison of AIRS CO retrievals with DC-8 in situ measurements during INTEX-A/ICARTT,  submitted to J. Geophys. Res.

 

3)             Kondragunta, S., P. Lee, J. McQueen, C. Kittaka,  A. Prados, P. Ciren, I. Laszlo, B. Pierce, R. Hoff, J. Szykman, 2006. Air Quality Forecast Verification using Satellite Data, accepted J. Appl. Met.

 

4)             Russo, Felicita, Belay Demoz, David Whiteman, Raymond Hoff, 2006. Improvement of Raman Lidar Algorithm for Quantifying Aerosol Extinction, Appl. Opt. 45,7073-7088.

 

5)             Engel-Cox, Jill A., Raymond M. Hoff, Raymond Rogers, Fred Dimmick, Alan C. Rush, James J. Szykman, Jassim Al-Saadi, D. Allen Chu, and Erica R. Zell, 2006. Integrating Lidar and Satellite Optical Depth with Ambient Monitoring for 3-Dimensional Particulate Characterization,  Atmos. Environ. 40, 8056-8067.

 

6)             R. M. Hoff, S. Palm, J. A. Engel-Cox,  and J. Spinhirne, 2005. GLAS Long-range Transport Observation of the 2003 California Forest Fire Plumes to the Northeastern US., Geophys. Res. Letts. 32, L22S08, doi:10.1029/2005GL023723.

 

7)             Leithead, A., S.-M. Li, Y. Cheng, J. Brook, and R. M. Hoff, 2004. Levoglucosan and dehydroabietic acid in aerosols in the Lower Fraser Valley during Pacific 2001:  Evidence of biomass burning impact on ambient aerosols. Atmos. Environ., 40, 2721-2734.

 

8)             Engel-Cox,  Jill A., Gregory S. Young and Raymond M. Hoff, 2005 Application of satellite remote sensing data for analysis of fine particulate matter transport events, J.A.W.M.A., 55, 1389-1397.

 

9)             Engel-Cox, J.A. and R. M. Hoff, 2005. Science-Policy Data Contract Model: Use of Environmental Monitoring Data for Air Quality Policy, Environ. Science and Policy, 8, 115-131.

 

10)          Engel-Cox, J. A., R.M. Hoff, and A.D.J. Haymet, 2004. Recommendations on the Use of Satellite Sensor Data for Urban Air Quality, J. A.W.M.A, 54, 1360-1371.

 

11)          Engel-Cox, J. A., C. H. Holloman, B. W. Coutant,  and R. M. Hoff, 2004. Qualitative and quantitative evaluation of MODIS satellite sensor data for regional and urban scale air quality, Atmos. Environ. 38, 16, 2495-2509 doi:10.1016/j.atmosenv.2004.01.039.

 

12)          Poli, P., C. O. Ao, J. Joiner, M. de la Torre Juarez, and R. M. Hoff, 2004. Evaluation of refractivity profiles from CHAMP and SAC-C GPS radio occultation, in Occultations for Probing Atmosphere and Climate, edited by G. Kirchengast, U. Foelsche, and A. K. Steiner, 375-382, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

 

13)          Poli, P., C. O. Ao, M. de la Torre Ju‡rez, J. Joiner, G. A. Hajj, and R. M. Hoff, 2003.  Evaluation of CHAMP Radio Occultation Refractivity with Data Assimilation Office Analyses, Geophys. Rev. Letts., 30, 1800, doi:10.1029/2003GL017637.

 

14)          Hoff, R.M., A. Vandermeer, and L. Spacek, 2001. LITE/NARCM retrievals and implications for future missions, Advances in Laser Remote Sensing, A. Dabas, C. Loth and J. Pelon, eds., Editions de L'Ecole polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseux Cedex, France,  pp. 27-30.

 

15)          Dachs, J., S. J.Eisenreich, and R. M. Hoff, 2000.  Influence of Eutrophication on Air-Water Exchange, Vertical Fluxes and Phytoplankton Concentration of Persistent Organic Pollutants", Environ. Sci. Technol. 34, 1095-1102.

 

16)          Simcik, M. F., R. M. Hoff, W. M. J. Strachan, C. W. Sweet, I. Basu and R. A. Hites, 2000.  Temporal trends in semi-volatile organic contaminant in Great Lakes precipitation.  Environ. Sci. Technol. 34, 361-367.

 

17)          Shoeib, M., Brice, K. A. and R. M. Hoff, 2000. ÒStudies of Toxaphene in Technical Standards and Extracts of Background Airborne Samples (Point Petre, Ontario) using Multi-dimensional Gas Chromatography-Electron Capture Detection (MDGC-ECD)Ó Chemosphere 40, 201-211.

 

18)          Hoff, R. M., 1999.  "Impact of Airborne Contaminants on the Great Lakes"  in Great Lakes Fisheries Policy and Management: A Binational Perspective, W. W. Taylor, ed. Michigan State University Press, Lansing, MI., pp 239-256.

 

19)          Nejedly, Z., J. L. Campbell, S. N. Rogak, R. M. Hoff, and W. J. Teesdale, 1999.  Air quality work at Guelph: GAViM and a traffic tunnel study, Nucl. Inst. Methods in Phys. Res. B., 150, 398-402.

 

20)          Steyn, D., Baldi, M. and R. M. Hoff, 1999.  ÒDetection of Mixed Layer Depth and Entrainment Zone Thickness from Lidar Backscatter ProfilesÓ,  J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 16, 953-959.

 

21)          Cortes, D. R., R. M. Hoff, K. A. Brice, and R. A. Hites, 1999.  Evidence of Current Pesticide Use from Temporal and Clausius-Clapeyron Plots:  A Case Study from the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network, Environ. Sci. Technol. 33, 2145-2150.

 

22)          Karayampudi, V. M., S. P. Palm, J. A. Reagan, H. Fang, W. B. Grant, R. M. Hoff, C. Moulin, H. F. Pierce, O. Torres, E. V. Browell and S. H. Melfi, 1999.  Validation of the Saharan Dust Plume Conceptual Model Using Lidar, Meteosat, and ECMWF Data, Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 80, 1045-1075.

 

23)          Shoeib, M., Brice, K. A. and R. M. Hoff (1999) ÒAirborne Concentration of Toxaphene Congeners at Point Petre (Ontario) using Gas Chromatography-Electron Capture Negative Ion Mass Spectrometry (GC-ECNIMS) and Multi-dimensional Gas Chromatography-Electron Capture Detection (MDGC-ECD)Ó Chemosphere 39, 849-871.

 

24)          Pryor, S. C., R. Simpson, L. Guise-Bagley, R. Hoff and S. Sakiyama, 1997.  Visibility and aerosol composition in the Fraser Valley during REVEAL. J. Air Waste Management Assoc. 47, 147-156.