Dr. Tao Wang is currently a Technologist/Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He graduated from Texas A&M University, working with Dr. Andrew Dessler on issues regarding climate change. His research topics include cirrus clouds and their formation mechanisms in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL), and trace gas, including water vapor (H2O) and chemical (O3, CO, N2O, SF6, etc.), transport in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS). Then, he worked with Dr. Sun Wong and Dr. Eric Fetzer from JPL and Dr. Dong Wu from GSFC on topics including cloud vertical structures associated with different climate regimes, clouds' response to water budget, and cloud ice retrievals. Before he came to the United States, he worked on lightning detection and protection at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. He developed a lightning location algorithm for lightning detection arrays applicable to VLF and VHF bands, which earned 4 patents.

Dr. Vivienne H Payne works at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. She currently serves as the Project Scientist for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) mission and as the Deputy Project Scientist for OCO-3. She leads the Atmospheric Composition group in the Earth Science Section at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She received her M.Phys. degree in physics from the University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., in 2001, and her D.Phil. in atmospheric physics from the University of Oxford, Oxford, U.K., in 2006. Her research interests lie in the remote sensing of trace gases in the troposphere and the ways in which satellite measurements can advance our understanding of the Earth system.

Evan Manning received an M.S. degree in applied physics from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1986. In 1993, he joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, and began working on the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), where he was a System Engineer. Evan Manning is now retired.

Dr. Thomas S. Pagano received a B.Sc. degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 1982, and an M.Sc. degree from Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA, in 1984, both in physics. He started his career at EG&G Energy Measurements, Goleta, CA, USA, testing electro-optic instrumentation for the Department of Energy. In 1985, he joined Hughes Aircraft Co. (now Raytheon), Goleta, CA, USA, as a Systems Engineer. In 1997, he joined Caltech JPL as a Systems Engineer, and, in 1999, he joined the AIRS project as the Calibration Team Leader. Since 2002, shortly after the launch, he has been the Project Manager for AIRS. Dr. Thomas S. Pagano is a Fellow Member of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, and assists as an organizer and chair of conferences relating to remote sensing, CubeSats, and SmallSats. He was the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for Development of the AIRS Calibrated Spectra in 2004. He participates in the Global Space-based Intercalibration of Sensors working group. Since 2006, he has been a member of the American Meteorological Society and has 4 U.S. patents.

Dr. Bjorn Lambrigtsen received a B.S. degree in physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 1967 and pursued graduate work in physics at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, from 1969 to 1979. Since 1982, he has worked at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he is currently a Principal Scientist in Atmospheric Physics. He specializes in atmospheric remote sensing and related research, with a focus on infrared and microwave sounding, and is the Microwave Instrument Scientist for the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder satellite project. He is the GeoSTAR Principal Investigator and has led a number of other research efforts. He has participated in a number of hurricane field campaigns. His research interests include tropical cyclones.

Ruth Monarrez received a B.A. in Applied Mathematics from UCLA in 1990 and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the Claremont Graduate University in 1996. In 1985, she joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. She is currently the Product Generation Manager for both the Suomi-National Polar-orbiting Partnership / Joint Polar Satellite System Sounder Science Investigator-led Processing System and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder satellite project.