David M. Mocko is a Senior Research Scientist with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) supporting the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory (HSL) at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. He graduated from Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey) in 1991. He then earned an M.S. in the Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University in 1994. David serves as a co-PI on proposals as part of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS). He is a core team member for land-surface model integration and evaluation for the Land Information System (LIS) software framework. David has participated in a Coordinated Energy and water cycle Observations Project (CEOP) multi-model analysis intercomparison, water cycle studies using Modern Era Retrospective-Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) and MERRA-2 reanalyses, and in the Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP). His research interests include land-surface modeling, drought monitoring and analysis, reanalyses, and the global energy and water cycle.

Research Interests
Hydrometeorology
Land-surface modeling
Drought monitoring and analysis
Soil moisture, snow depth/cover, and surface fluxes
Atmospheric/land reanalyses
Global energy and water cycle

Awards
Sep 2017 – Award for Scientific/Technical Support; Hydrosphere, Biosphere, and Geophysics
Aug 2011 – Award for Scientific Support; Hydrospheric and Biospheric Sciences Laboratory
Jan 2009 – Outstanding Performance; Global Modeling and Assimilation Office
Jan 2009 – Special Act Award; Climate and Radiation Branch
Jan 2005 – Outstanding Scientific Support; Climate and Radiation Branch
Aug 1999 – Outstanding Performance in Technical Support – Science; Laboratory for Atmospheres