CLARREO: Cornerstone of the Climate Observing System

Stephen P. Sandford

TUESDAY: September 1, 2009 2:00 P.M. in the H.J.E. Reid Auditorium

Abstract

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Speaker

Stephen P. Sandford was selected to be the Director of Langley’s Systems Engineering Directorate in October 2004. He is responsible for the management and direction of technology development, space and aeronautical flight systems development, and manufacturing of systems for the Center’s research mission.

After joining NASA’s Langley Research Center in 1986, he worked on the system design and several subsystems for the first spaceflight lidar (light detection and ranging), the Lidar In-Space Technology Experiment (LITE) on Shuttle. He also worked on the first fully calibrated, autonomous differential absorption lidar (DIAL) that flew on NASA’s version of the U-2. He has developed a patented laser frequency control technique, low loss optical filters and advanced piezo-electric motors. He has worked as a researcher, design engineer, system engineer, and project manager on small and large spaceflight components and systems and led and managed both science and engineering organizations.

Mr. Sandford received a B.S. in Physics from Randolph-Macon College, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Virginia, and a M.S. in Optical Science from the University of Arizona.