Monitoring Carbon Dioxide Emissions during the COVID-19 Pandemic with NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2

Dr. David Crisp is an atmospheric physicist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology. Since receiving his Ph.D. from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program at Princeton University, his research has focused primarily on the development of instruments and numerical models for analyzing light reflected, emitted, and scattered by atmospheres and surfaces of the Earth and other planets. He has served on the science teams of several Earth, planetary and astrophysics missions. He was the Principal Investigator of the NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and is currently serving as the Science Team Leader for NASA’s OCO-2 and OCO-3 missions and the Greenhouse Gas Lead for the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) Atmospheric Composition - Virtual Constellation (AC-VC).