Additionally, Brendan is responsible for maintaining the OCO-3 SAM/TG list, implementing new observation sites and adjusting strategies to assist coordination with community science, validation, and calibration activities. Brendan is also a member of the science implementation team and is involved in nearly all aspects of the algorithm development. Brendan has extensive experience with flight projects from early build to on-orbit operations, instrument calibration and validation, remote sensing, and atmospheric retrieval algorithms.