Mitchell D. Goldberg

Mitch Goldberg received the B.S. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. He is currently a Distinguished Research Professor with the NOAA Center for Earth System Sciences and Remote Sensing Technologies (CESSRST), City College of New York, New York, NY, USA. He retired from NOAA after 35 years in May 2023, and his last appointment at NOAA was serving as the NOAA-NESDIS Chief Scientist. At NOAA, he was an expert and lead representative of the NOAA-NESDIS science and user communities and coordinated NESDIS applied science within NOAA and with partner federal and international agencies. His scientific expertise is in developing scientific algorithms to derive atmospheric soundings of temperature and water vapor from satellite platform microwave and infrared sounders. Dr. Goldberg is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), and the Chair Emeritus of the AMS Satellite Meteorological, Oceanography, and Climatology Committee. He was the recipient of three Gold Medals, one Silver Medal, and ten Bronze Medals from the Department of Commerce including the 2010 NOAA Administrator's Award for leadership in developing the international Global Space-based Inter-Calibration System (GSICS) and the University of Maryland Most Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science in 2004.