Clayton Cantrall is now a Senior AV名湿 Staff at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. His PhD聽research was on the use of optical remote sensing technologies to improve our understanding and ability to predict processes at the upper boundary of Earth鈥檚 atmosphere.
Education:
Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado聽Boulder, 2022
M.S., Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado聽Boulder, 2019
B.S., Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, 2015
Awards, Honors, and Fellowships:
- Best Student Paper Award, NSF CEDAR Conference, 2021
- Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST), 2019-2022
- GAAN Fellowship in Critical Aerospace Technologies, 2019-2022
PhD Thesis:
Cantrall, C. E. (2022). New approaches for quantifying and understanding thermosphere temperature variability from far ultraviolet dayglow. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Publications:
Cantrall, C.E. & T. Matsuo (2021). Deriving column-integrated thermospheric temperature with the N2聽Lyman鈥揃irge鈥揌opfield聽(2,0) band. Atmos Meas Tech, 14, 6917.
Cantrall, C.E.,聽T. Matsuo, &聽S.C. Solomon聽(2019).聽Upper atmosphere radiance data assimilation: A feasibility study for GOLD far ultraviolet observations. J Geophys Res-Space, 124,聽8154.