Member Since 1983
Dave Crisp
Owner, CEO, Crisp Spectra LLC
Dr. David Crisp is an atmospheric physicist. Prior to his retirement from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, he served as the Science Team Leader for NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 (OCO-3) missions. He is continuing to work with the carbon cycle and climate communities as the CEO of Crisp Spectra LLC, a science consulting firm.
Professional Experience
Crisp Spectra LLC
Owner, CEO
2022 - Present
Crisp Spectra LLC
CEO
2022 - 2023
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Senior Research Scientist
1984 - 2022
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Education
Princeton University
Doctorate
1984
Honors & Awards
Union Fellow
Received December 2023
Citation
For leading an effective response to global climate change, and for significant advances in radiative transfer modeling and remote sensing techniques
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Publications
Verifying Methane Inventories and Trends With Atmospheric Methane Data
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement and Global Methane Pledge formalized agreement for countries to report and reduce methane emissions to mitigate ne...
August 09, 2023
Earth Observation Applications and Global Policy Frameworks
August 12, 2022
Venus as a Laboratory for Exoplanetary Science
August 28, 2019
Quantifying CO2 Emissions From Individual Power Plants From ...
October 13, 2017
AGU Abstracts
Constraining Urban GHG Emissions from Space: A Simulation Study
REMOTE SENSING OF CH<SUB>4</SUB> AND CO<SUB>2</SUB> FROM SPACE: THE EXPANDING OBSERVING SYSTEM III ORAL
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Roisin Commane, Luke D. Schiferl, Sean Crowell, Jo...
Urban areas emit 70% of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels. Urban fluxes of CO2 and methane (CH4) are of great interest to city a...
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Evaluation of CO2 and CH4 retrievals from MethaneSAT: A Simulation-based study
REMOTE SENSING OF CH<SUB>4</SUB> AND CO<SUB>2</SUB> FROM SPACE: THE EXPANDING OBSERVING SYSTEM IV POSTER
atmospheric sciences | 14 december 2023
Christopher O'Dell, Gregory McGarragh, David Crisp...
In early 2024, the Environmental Defense Fund in partnership with the Harvard Center for Astrophysics will launch MethaneSAT, the next U.S.-based gree...
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Bringing it All Back Home: Chasing photons from Planetary Atmospheres and the Earth’s Carbon Cycle
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atmospheric sciences | 13 december 2023
David Crisp
I began studying the massive, super-rotating atmosphere of Venus when I was still an undergraduate Education major at Texas A&M. While struggling ...
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