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Member Since 1992
Peter C. Griffith
Chief Support Scientist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Dr. Griffith is the founding director of NASA’s Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Office, supporting the North American Carbon Program, a component of the U.S. Global Change Research Program; the Arctic Boreal Vulnerability Experiment; and the NASA Carbon Monitoring System. He is a passionate public speaker about the human impacts on the carbon cycle and their implications for ecosystems and climate.
Professional Experience
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Chief Support Scientist
2000 - Present
Education
University of Georgia
Doctorate
1988
Current Roles
Member
Open Science Prize Committee
Publications
Carbon Budget of Tidal Wetlands, Estuaries, and Shelf Waters of Eastern North America
Carbon cycling in the coastal zone affects global carbon budgets and is critical for understanding the urgent issues of hypoxia, acidification, and...
March 11, 2018
Net ecosystem production and organic carbon balance of U.S. East Coast estuaries: A synthesis approa...
Net ecosystem production (NEP) and the overall organic carbon budget for the estuaries along the East Coast of the United States are estimated. We ...
January 27, 2015
AGU Abstracts
A Decade of Stakeholder Engagement Efforts for NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Initiative: Lessons Learned, Success Stories & Data Needs of our Communities of Practice
CARBON MONITORING SYSTEMS RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS II POSTER
innovations | 13 december 2023
Edil Sepulveda Carlo, George C. Hurtt, Peter C. Gr...
Ten years ago, the stakeholder engagement and applications efforts for NASAs Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) Initiative were initiated. The CMS program...
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From Field to Air: Integrating Field Data in Support of the ABoVE Airborne Campaign
THE RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY OF ARCTIC AND BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS TO CLIMATE CHANGE IV ORAL
biogeosciences | 13 december 2023
Miles Moore, Elizabeth E. Hoy, Peter C. Griffith, ...
Soil moisture and active layer thickness (ALT) play critical roles in understanding the dynamics of permafrost regions, their response to climate chan...
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The NASA ABoVE LVIS Full Waveform Lidar Airborne Surveys
THE RESILIENCE AND VULNERABILITY OF ARCTIC AND BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS TO CLIMATE CHANGE III POSTER
biogeosciences | 12 december 2023
Elizabeth E. Hoy, Charles E. Miller, Peter C. Grif...
Arctic and boreal regions are experiencing drastic environmental change thawing permafrost and increasing disturbance. The NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerab...
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Volunteer Experience
2024 - 2025
Member
Open Science Prize Committee
2021 - 2023
Member
Biogeosciences DEI Steering Committe and DEI Working Group
2020 - 2022
Member
Governance
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