Education:

B.S. Physics, Hope College, 1986
M.S. Electrical Engineering, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1988
Ph. D. Earth Science, Univ. of New Hampshire, 2005

Research Interests:

My research interests lie in ocean remote sensing with a focus on air-sea interaction. My specific research in these areas involves radar oceanography including microwave altimetry, scatterometry, and synthetic aperture radar as well as remote measurement techniques and models for directional ocean wave spectra, air-sea momentum flux and gas transfer parameterizations, and wind-wave interactions. One focus has been data fusion of coincident ocean satellite observations to improve how satellites estimate parameters such as near-surface winds, sea level, and currents. Another ongoing research activity involves the study of oceanic carbon dioxide variability in coastal waters as well as the remote sensing of greenhouse gas air-sea fluxes using satellite ocean surface wind, temperature, and color measurements.

Selected Publications:

Vandemark, D., P. D. Mourad, T. L. Crawford, C. A. Vogel, J. Sun, S. A. Bailey and B. Chapron, Measured changes in ocean surface roughness due to atmospheric boundary layer rolls, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 106(C3), 4639-4654, 2001.

Chapron, B., D. Vandemark, and T. Elfouhaily, Measured and modeled steep ocean surface slopes, In Gas Transfer at Water Surfaces, edited by M. A. Donelan, W. M. Drennan, E.S. Saltzman and R. Wanninkhof, 59-64, 2001.

Sun J. , D. Vandemark , L. Mahrt, D. Vickers, T. L. Crawford and C. A. Vogel, Momentum transfer over the coastal zone, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, 106(C12), 12437-12448, 2001.

Vandemark, D., N. Tran, B. D. Beckley, B. Chapron, P. Gaspar, Direct estimation of sea state impacts on radar altimeter sea level measurements, Geophys. Res. Lett., 10.1029/2002GL015776, 2002.

Elfouhaily, T., S. Giugnard, H. Branger, D. R. Thompson, B. Chapron and D. Vandemark, A time-frequency application with the Stokes-Woodward technique, IEEE Trans. Geosc. Rem. Sens., 41(11), 2670-2673, 2003.

Vandemark, D., B. Chapron, J. Sun, G. H. Crescenti, and H. C. Graber, Ocean wave slope observations using radar backscatter and laser altimeters, J. Phys. Ocean., 34(12), 2825-2842, 2004.

Feng, H., D. Vandemark, Y. Quilfen, B. Chapron, and B. Beckley, Assessment of wind forcing on global wave model output using the TOPEX altimeter, Ocean Engineering, in press.

Vandemark, D., B. Chapron, T. Elfouhaily, J. Campbell, Impact of high frequency waves on the ocean altimeter range bias, J. Geophys. Res.-Oceans, doi:10.1029/2005JC002929, 2005.

Professional Affiliations & Memberships:

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
American Geophysical Union

Awards:

NASA Technical Achievement Award 2003
NASA Group Achievement Award 1992, 1995
DOE Summer Fellowship Award, Argonne Laboratory 1984