Organization:

NPP's management is a joint venture between NASA's EOS, and the IPO. Since the project is a combined effort of multiple parties, a brief synopsis of the creation of NPP can be viewed on the NPP History page. The various task teams, their members, and their responsibilities can be viewed below.

Contact information for many NPP-related persons can be found here.

Key Science Personnel:

Project Scientist: Dr. James Gleason
Deputy Project Scientist: Dr. Jeffrey Privette
Deputy Project Scientist for Instruments and Calibration:
Dr. James Butler
Program Scientist: Dr Diane Wickland

Sensor Scientists
VIIRS: Dr. Wayne Esaias
CrIS: Dr. Joel Susskind
ATMS: Dr. Ed Kim
OMPS: Dr. Scott Janz

Project Science Group:

The PSG consists of government and contractor staff located at or near the Goddard Space Flight Center. Under the leadership of the Project Scientists, they are responsible for defining NASA’s science needs, generating project documents, and analyzing contractor documents and algorithms.

Interim Science Panel:

The ISP was an advisory committee of scientists in universities and government laboratories. They advised the PSG on science priorities, science requirements, reviewed project and IPO documents and developed an initial science strategy for NPP. This group was disbanded prior to the issue of a NASA Reasearch Announcement (NRA) for a science team.

Calibration Working Group:

This group developed the the Government Calibration Validation Plan for NPP.

Science Team:
A science team was selected in Nov., 2003. The NPP Science Team is tasked with evaluating the NPP algorithms and providing guidance to NASA on the NPP data products, data processing, and instrument calibration/validation.

Abstracts of NPP Science Team Member Proposals