Dr. Ross Hoffman, Chief Scientist and Vice President of Research and Development, joined Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. in June of 1983 as a senior staff scientist. His principle areas of research activities include objective analysis and assimilation methods, atmospheric dynamics, climate theory and atmospheric radiation. Dr. Hoffman is the author of seminal papers in variational analysis, ensemble forecasting, radiance retrieval, feature calibration and alignment, and weather control. Dr. Hoffman has been the principal investigator of several research projects for the U.S. Air Force, NASA and Office of Naval Research. Dr. Hoffman has also made significant contributions in the field of data assimilation, including the development of some variational techniques. He is a member of the NASA Ocean Vector Winds Science Team (OVWST)., the Committee on Earth Science of the Space Studies Board for the National Academy of Science, the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU). To read more about hurricane modification research go to http://www.aer.com/news/pr/scientific_american.html Post your questions about Superstorm for Dr. Hoffman here. He will begin answering questions after the program airs.

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