Alexander P. Trishchenko

Alexander P. Trishchenko received the master’s and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 1982 and 1987, respectively. From 1985 to 1996, he was a Research Scientist and a Senior Research Scientist with the Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information–World Data Center of the Russian Hydrometeorological Service, Obninsk, Russia. Since 1996, he has been a Contractor and a Physical Scientist with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa, ON, Canada, where he is currently a Senior Research Scientist. His research interests include remote sensing methods in optical and thermal bands, radiation budget, surface albedo and cloud analysis, orbital mechanics and radiative transfer modeling. He was a Science Team Member of the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program, the Scanner for Radiation Budget Project, the Polar Communications and Weather project, as well as the Principal Investigator of several projects supported by the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, the International Polar Year program, and the Department of Natural Resources Canada. He is currently a member of the NOAA Independent Advisory Committee, the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Meteorological Society. He is an Associate Editor of the Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing and the Commissioner of the International Radiation Commission.