JoBea Way Holt

JoBea Way Holt (born 1954) is an American planetary scientist who has worked for NASA. Holt studied the carbon cycle in Earth's atmosphere.[1] She is also a member of the Climate Project,[2] and is the author of several books and research papers.

Biography

Holt was born in Lorain, Ohio.[3] Holt states that she was inspired to get into science by watching the Apollo 11 moon landing.[1] She attended University of California, Berkeley for her undergrad degree in chemistry and did her master's and Ph.D. at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in planetary sciences.[3] At Caltech, she worked with Tom Jukes studying decontamination procedures used with the Viking spacecraft.[1]

Holt began working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1976.[3] When the second space shuttle flight carrying the first shuttle-borne imaging radar (SIR) went up, Holt became interested in how to study the Earth from space.[1] Her discoveries about carbon flux in the atmosphere around boreal forests contributed to a greater understanding of the carbon cycle.[4]

She was an elected member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) Administrative Committee (AdCom) from 1990 through 1995, and was one of the first women involved in that capacity.[5]

Holt is one of the creators of KidSat (later named Sally Ride EarthKAM) in 1995.[6] She first became involved in the project in 1993.[5]

Holt has been published in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,[7][8] Ecology,[9] BioScience,[10] the International Journal of Remote Sensing,[11] the Journal of Geophysical Research,[12] and the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing.[13] She also does research for NASA.[14]

Selected bibliography

• Baby's Day Out in Southern California: Fun Places to Go With Babies and Toddlers. Baldwin Park, CA: Gem Guides Book Co. 2003. ISBN 9781889786261.
• Using Google Earth: Bring the World Into Your Classroom. Level 6-8. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education. 2012. ISBN 9781425808266.

References

Citations

1. Blackburn 1997, p. 12.
2. "Climate Scientists and Students Come Together for Climate Day 2008". Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA. 1 April 2008. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
3. Wiesbeck, W.; Carver, K. R.; Takagi, M.; Tomiyasu, K. (September 1996). "GRSS Awards Presented at IGARSS'9". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 34 (5): 1054. Bibcode:1996ITGRS..34.1053W. doi:10.1109/TGRS.1996.536520.
4. Blackburn 1997, p. 13.
5. Beck 2012, p. 47.
6. Mattern, Joanne (2006). Sally Ride: Astronaut. Ferguson. p. 73. ISBN 9781438112039.
7. Way, J.; Smith, E. A. (1991-11-01). "The evolution of synthetic aperture radar systems and their progression to the EOS SAR". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 29 (6): 962–985. Bibcode:1991ITGRS..29..962W. doi:10.1109/36.101374. ISSN 0196-2892.
8. McDonald, K. C.; Zimmermann, R.; Way, J.; Chun, W. (1999-07-01). "Automated instrumentation for continuous monitoring of the dielectric properties of woody vegetation: system design, implementation, and selected in situ measurements". IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. 37 (4): 1880–1894. Bibcode:1999ITGRS..37.1880M. doi:10.1109/36.774701. ISSN 0196-2892.
9. Ustin, Susan L.; Wessman, Carol A.; Curtiss, Brian; Kasischke, Eric; Way, JoBea; Vanderbilt, Vern C. (1991-01-01). "Opportunities for Using the Eos Imaging Spectrometers and Synthetic Aperture Radar in Ecological Models". Ecology. 72 (6): 1934–1945. JSTOR 1941548.
10. Waring, Richard H.; Way, JoBea; Hunt, E. Raymond; Morrissey, Leslie; Ranson, K. Jon; Weishampel, John F.; Oren, Ram; Franklin, Steven E. (1995-01-01). "Imaging Radar for Ecosystem Studies". BioScience. 45 (10): 715–723. doi:10.2307/1312677. JSTOR 1312677.
11. WAY, JOBEA; PARIS, JACK; KASISCHKE, ERIC; SLAUGHTER, CHARLES; VIERECK, LESLIE; CHRISTENSEN, NORMAN; DOBSON, MYRON C.; ULABY, FAWWAZ; RICHARDS, JOHN (1990-07-01). "The effect of changing environmental conditions on microwave signatures of forest ecosystems: preliminary results of the March 1988 Alaskan aircraft SAR experiment". International Journal of Remote Sensing. 11 (7): 1119–1144. Bibcode:1990IJRS...11.1119W. doi:10.1080/01431169008955084. ISSN 0143-1161.
12. Way, JoBea; Zimmermann, Reiner; Rignot, Eric; McDonald, Kyle; Oren, Ram (1997-12-26). "Winter and spring thaw as observed with imaging radar at BOREAS" (PDF). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. 102 (D24): 29673–29684. Bibcode:1997JGR...10229673W. doi:10.1029/96JD03878. ISSN 2156-2202.
13. Kasischke, Eric S.; Morrissey, Leslie; Way, Jobea; French, Nancy H. F.; Bourgeau-Chavez, Laura L.; Rignot, Eric; Stearn, Joel A.; Livingston, Gerald P. (1995-06-01). "Monitoring Seasonal Variations in Boreal Ecosystems Using Multi-Temporal Spaceborne SAR Data". Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing. 21 (2): 96–109. Bibcode:1995CaJRS..21...96K. doi:10.1080/07038992.1995.10874605. ISSN 0703-8992.
14. "NASA Post-2002 Land Surface Hydrology Missions". NOAA. Retrieved 2016-04-07.

Sources

• Beck, Bill (2012). Stein, T.I. (ed.). A Celebration of the First Fifty Years: 1962-2012 (PDF). IEEE GRSS.
• Blackburn, Carol (January 1997). "Exploring Career Options: Planetary Science". Imagine. 4 (3): 12–14. doi:10.1353/imag.2003.0053.

External links

• Science Symposium on Climate Change (Hunt appears 1:21:30 in)