John C. Gille

John Gille received the Bachelor’s degree from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, the M.S. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. He is currently a Senior Scientist and the Earth Observing System Manager with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, USA, and an Adjoint Professor with the University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder. He is the U.S. Principal Investigator (PI) for the High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) experiment on the Aura satellite and for the Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere experiment on Terra. He has been a PI on two previous satellite experiments (the Limb Radiance Inversion Radiometer and the Limb Infrared Monitor of the Stratosphere). He works to develop satellite instruments to measure the composition of the atmosphere and applies the data to the solution of atmospheric problems.