Arlin Krueger
Research Professor

Departmental Affiliation:

Physics

JCET Research Group:

UMBC-based Faculty

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Academic IV-A, Room 114L
UMBC
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore MD 21250 USA

Phone:

(410) 455-8906

Fax:

(410) 455-5868

Email:

akrueger@umbc.edu

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Biography:

Dr. Arlin J. Krueger received his undergraduate degree in physics from the University of Minnesota in 1955 and his Ph.D. degree in atmospheric sciences from Colorado State University in 1984. He began his career in 1959 at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, where he developed balloon and rocket instruments and techniques for ozone measurements. He joined GSFC in 1969, initially serving as technical officer on the Nimbus-4 backscatter UV experiment, where a new method for remote sensing of total ozone from satellites was tested. Based on this experience he proposed an instrument for mapping of total ozone, the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS) instrument, for flight on the Nimbus-7 satellite. Following its launch in 1978 he investigated many applications of the TOMS total ozone data and developed a new technique for mapping volcanic sulfur dioxide clouds. He was awarded the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal in 1991, the University of Maryland Elkins Professorship of Physics in 2000, and the NASA Exceptional Service Medal in 2001. Dr Krueger served as sensor scientist for the Nimbus-7 TOMS, instrument scientist on the Meteor 3/TOMS (launched on August 15, 1991), and the Earth Probe TOMS (launched in July 1996), and as principal investigator on the ADEOS/TOMS (launched in August 1996). He was the principal investigator of the VOLCAM Mission, which was selected as an Alternate ESSP mission. Dr Krueger is a member of the NASA TOMS science team and the EOS Aura OMI science team.