David Crisp MET Co-I

Dr. David Crisp was responsible for the design, development, and delivery of the MVACS
Meteorology Package (MET), and will serve as the leader of the team that will operate these
instruments on the Martian surface. Dr. Crisp is a Senior Research Scientist in the Earth and 
Space Sciences Division at JPL and the Chief Scientist of NASA's New Millennium Program. He
received his Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics from Princeton University in 1984. There,
he specialized in atmospheric physics and studied the thermal balance of the middle
atmosphere of Venus. He has continued to develop efficient, accurate radiative transfer
models for studies of the solar and thermal radiation fields in scattering, absorbing, emitting, 
planetary atmospheres. These radiative transfer models are currently being used to analyze
observations of the atmospheres of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune that were
taken by ground-based telescopes, the Hubble Space Telescope, and a variety of
spacecraft.  More recently, he has lead an effort to develop miniaturized 
meteorological instruments for studies of the weather and climate at the
at the surface of Mars.  The MVACS MET instruments were the first products 
of this development effort.