Dr. Elena S. Lobl

Dr. Lobl received her B.S. from Case Institute of Technology in 1970, in Physics, an M.S. in 1972 from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, in Atmospheric Physics, and a Ph.D. in 1975 from UCLA in Atmospheric Sciences. Her Ph.D. work was in Cloud Physics, on the collision and coalescence of water drops. She has been affiliated with the MSFC Microwave Measurements Group since June 1993, specifically following the hardware developments of MIMR. Dr. Lobl is currently an employee of the University of Alabama in Huntsville's Earth System Science Laboratory, supporting the AMSR US Science Team as the Team Coordinator.

From 1979 to 1993 Dr. Lobl worked at Hughes Aircraft Company, Space and Communications Group, in El Segundo, California. Her duties spanned from manager of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Support and Services program (part of the DMSP for the U.S. Air Force) to system engineer in several areas (power and harness, propulsion, high power RF, telemetry), to microwave instruments study manager (HIMSS, for MSFC, TRMM, for GSFC). She was also involved in several proposal for scientific and communication satellites, as well as for remote sensing instruments. Between 1975 and 1978, she managed the Meteorology Research Inc.'s High Plains Experiment (HIPLEX) field team. This project was a weather modification experiment funded by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation. At the same time she served as the scientist onboard the research airplane.