Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Alexander E. Kotsakis

(ASSISTANT RESEARCH SCIENTIST)

Alexander E. Kotsakis's Contact Card & Information.
Email: alexander.e.kotsakis@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.6548
Org Code: 613
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 613
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer: UNIV OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK

Current Projects


AI/ML Planteary Boundary Layer Retrieval Development and Hyperspectral Microwave Instrument Development

Earth's Atmosphere

Positions/Employment


Assistant Research Scientist

University of Maryland College Park/ESSIC - Greenbelt, MD

August 2023 - Present

Dr. Kotsakis is contributing to the development of an AI/ML planetary boundary layer (PBL) retrieval algorithm using his extensive knowledge of the boundary layer meteorology and assists in trade studies for future hyperspectral microwave sensors.


Assistant Research Scientist

ERT, Inc. - Laurel, MD

January 2022 - July 2023


NPP Postdoctoral Fellow (USRA)

Advisor: Robert J Swap - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

July 2018 - December 2021


Research Staff

University of Houston - Houston, TX, USA

January 2018 - June 2018


Research Assistant

University of Houston - Houston, TX, USA

January 2017 - December 2017


Teaching Assistant

University of Houston - Houston, TX, USA

January 2014 - December 2016

Education


B.S. Meteorology/Minor in Mathematics, Valparaiso University, 2013

Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, University of Houston, 2017

 

Publications


Refereed

2023. "Two Air Quality Regimes in Total Column NO2 Over the Gulf of Mexico in May 2019: Shipboard and Satellite Views." Earth and Space Science 10 (3): [10.1029/2022ea002473] [Journal Article/Letter]

2023. "Advancing Atmospheric Thermodynamic Sounding from Space using Hyperspectral Microwave Measurements." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 1-16 [10.1109/jstars.2023.3269697] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Traffic, transport, and vegetation drive VOC concentrations in a major urban area in Texas." Science of The Total Environment 838 155861 [10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155861] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Development and testing of a novel sulfur dioxide sonde." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 15 (14): 4373-4384 [10.5194/amt-15-4373-2022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "Sensitivity of total column NO2 at a marine site within the Chesapeake Bay during OWLETS-2." Atmospheric Environment 277 119063 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2022.119063] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "Effect of Polyoxymethylene (POM-H Delrin) offgassing within Pandora head sensor on direct sun and multi-axis formaldehyde column measurements in 2016–2019." Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 14 647–663 [10.5194/amt-14-647-2021] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "SCOAPE: Satellite and Shipboard Views of Air Quality along the Louisiana Coast." EM: The Magazine for Environmental Managers (Oct. 2020): 28-33 [Full Text] [Magazine]

2020. "The characterization of fine particulate matter downwind of Houston: Using integrated factor analysis to identify anthropogenic and natural sources." Environmental Pollution 262 114345 [10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114345] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Using networked Pandora observations to capture spatiotemporal changes in total column ozone associated with stratosphere-to-troposphere transport." Atmospheric Research 238 104872 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2020.104872] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Observing Severe Drought Influences on Ozone Air Pollution in California." Environmental Science & Technology acs.est.8b04852 [10.1021/acs.est.8b04852] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "Characterization of Regional Wind Patterns Using Self-Organizing Maps: Impact on Dallas-Fort Worth Long-Term Ozone Trends." Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 58 (4): 757-772 [10.1175/jamc-d-18-0045.1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "On the effect of upwind emission controls on ozone in Sequoia National Park." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 18 (23): 17061-17076 [10.5194/acp-2017-1006] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Ozone production by corona discharges during a convective event in DISCOVER-AQ Houston." Atmospheric Environment 161 13-17 [10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.04.018] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "A 15-year climatology of wind pattern impacts on surface ozone in Houston, Texas." Atmospheric Research 174-175 124-134 [10.1016/j.atmosres.2016.02.007] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2020. "Satellite and shipboard views of air quality along the Louisiana coast: The 2019 SCOAPE (Satellite Coastal and Oceanic Atmospheric Pollution Experiment) cruise." EM: Environmental Manager Special Issue 6 pp [Magazine]

Professional Societies


American Meteorological Society

2009 - Present


American Geophysical Union

2014 - Present


European Geophysical Union

2019 - Present


Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

2023 - Present

Talks, Presentations and Posters


Other

Impacts of Biomass Burning on Free-Tropospheric Ozone Photochemistry over the Southern United States

February 10, 2018

American Meteorological Society 98th Annual Meeting


Characterization of Wind Patterns over Texas Using Self-Organizing Maps: Impact on Dallas-Fort Worth Long Term Ozone Trends

14, 2017

2017 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting


Impact of Synoptic & Global Scale Features On The Year-To-Year Variability of Ozone Exceedances in Houston

February 13, 2016

American Meteorological Society 96th Annual Meeting


Coronal Induced Production of Ozone from a Thunderstorm During DISCOVER-AQ 2013

June 8, 2015

2015 DISCOVER-AQ Team Meeting, Boulder, CO


Sources of Ozone in the Free Troposphere in Houston During DISCOVER-AQ 2013

2014

2014 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting


Investigation of Idabel, Oklahoma Ozone Concentration Pre and Post-Frontal Passage

May 24, 2013

2013 Celebration of Undergraduate Scholarship