David B. Considine

David B. Considine is a program manager within the Earth Science Research element of the NASA Earth Science Division. He is the Program Scientist for the CALIPSO, CloudSat, and TSIS-1 satellites, the CERES instruments on the Terra, Aqua, and NPP-Suomi satellites, and the TSIS-2 and Libera missions currently in development. He is an Executive Peer Consultant for the Integrated Modeling Virtual Institute (IMVI), providing strategic guidance in areas relating to numerical modeling of the Earth system, data assimilation and utilization. He is a subject matter expert at Headquarters for active remote sensing techniques, Earth radiation budget, solar irradiance, clouds and aerosols, data product continuity, and comprehensive Earth system modeling.

Dr. Considine grew up outside of Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from the University of Detroit High School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1982 from Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from Boston University in 1990 and 1991, respectively. He was a National Research Council postdoctoral associate at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center from 1990 to 1992. He continued at Goddard as a contract employee until 1997 and was a member of the University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and Department of Meteorology from 1997 to 2001. He moved to NASA Langley Research Center from 2002 to 2011, and has been employed by NASA Headquarters since then. His research activities involved global modeling of atmospheric chemistry and dynamics, including stratospheric and tropospheric ozone, the representation of polar stratospheric clouds in global atmospheric chemistry models, and the use of radionuclides to evaluate model transport and scavenging properties.